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Sorrentino serves up a cinema banquet at Cannes
Rome :: Italy | 3 days ago
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France (AP) Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, The Great Beauty.'' The Italian auteur's Cannes Film Festival entry is a journey through Rome in the company of observant but
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La Dolce Vita plays out with Italian films at Cannes
Rome :: Italy | 4 days ago
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Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty," a nostalgic, melancholic ode to the eternal city Rome, is one of several films that touch on the unraveling of contemporary Italy in official selection at the Cannes film festival this year. Also competing for
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Cannes Film Review: ‘The Great Beauty'
Rome :: Italy | 5 days ago
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Rome in all its splendor and superficiality, artifice and significance, becomes an enormous banquet too rich to digest in one sitting in Paolo Sorrentino's densely packed, often astonishing The Great Beauty. A tribute to, and castigation of, the city
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Florentine character actor Carlo Monni dies at 70
Rome :: Italy | 6 days ago
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Italian film actor Carlo Monni, 70, has died, social networks reported on Monday. The Florentine character actor played Roberto Benigni's sidekick toward the beginning of the Academy Award-winning comedian's career in the late 1970's. Monni appeared
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Police Bike Thief Threatened Officer with Rake
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
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Police say that a suspected bicycle thief threatening an officer with a rake late Saturday night. Officers near Folsom Boulevard and Grace Lane were waved around 10:30 p.m. down after someone had their bicycle stolen. One officer saw the suspect
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Cannes: Spain and Italy Adjust to Economic Crisis
Rome :: Italy | 9 days ago
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Getty Images Amid economic challenges and box office declines, two countries that once lived large on the Croisette now attend Cannes on a shoestring. Southern Europe continues to face economic challenges, which have affected the film-market presence
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‘Ironman 3' Can't Cut Angst in China Over U.S. Films
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 12 days ago
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Ticket sales for Iron Man 3 are still piling up at the Chinese box office...But that success hasn't resolved a building tension over American films at the Chinese box office. That was the message from China Daily, a state-owned newspaper that last
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‘Django Unchained' Re-opens In China With Nudity and Screenings Reduced
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 13 days ago
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With censors snipping three minutes off its Chinese cut, Quentin Tarantino's film opened in China on Sunday with much fewer screenings and more powerful competitors than its first release in April. A month after being abruptly yanked from Chinese
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Bertolucci to head Venice festival
Paris :: France | 17 days ago
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Bertolucci to lead Venice film festival jury Bertolucci is best known for the films Last Tango in Paris and The Emperor Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci is to lead the jury for the 70th Venice Film Festival, organisers have announced.
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Giulio Andreotti Is Mourned in Rome
Rome :: NY :: USA | 18 days ago
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The Italian media on Tuesday hailed the late Giulio Andreotti , the seven-time prime minister who dominated politics here for 50 years, with reams of analysis and interviews and hours of televised commentary reviewing the mysteries of a legacy that
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