Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Film Festivals: Key screenings and events -- Paris Cinema Intl. Film Festival highlights
The Longest Journey (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Seen at the weekend on DVD. I've watched quite a few Fellini films before, but not since I've got into the habit of recording everything systematically here. So, for my own reference, the other ones I've seen are La Dolce Vita (1960), Fellini - Satyricon (1969) and Roma (1972) - amongst which the latter is probably my favourite. This one is very much in the now-familiar vein. The story is impressionistic...
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
No one who has seen “The Leopard,” which screens at BAM on June 30, will forget the ballroom scene, not least the partnering of the beauteous Angelica (Claudia Cardinale) with the Prince of Salina (Burt Lancaster), all grizzled grace. The dance highlights the proceedings, and confirms our sense of the . . .
Gates of Vienna (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey has sent his congratulations to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the latter’s re-election as president of Iran. The last I heard, President Obama had not yet done the same. In other news, Al Qaeda says that if it ever got its hands on Pakistan’s nukes, it would use them against the United States. Well, duh ! Thanks to Amil Imani, C. Cantoni, CB, Gaia, Insubria, Islam...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali decorated on Tuesday the well known Tunisian born, Italian actress, Mrs Claudia Cardinale with the insignia of the Grand Ribbon of National Merit in the field of culture.
Nouse.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Luchino Visconti’s Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) is acclaimed as being the centrepiece of Italy’s golden era of cinema - and rightly so.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
In a moving book recently published at "Timée Editions" in France the Tunisian born, Italian cinema star, Claudia Cardinale writes : "I have never left Tunisia, I have always carried it with me".
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
This week, let's open our virtual arms wide and welcome the best clips on the web on exotic strangers "You're not from round these parts." Battle back against the winds of time, back to Odysseus, back further still, and the entrance of a bright-eyed stranger from the gale is often where it all begins. Fear and hope normally accompany him; the question is which perspective is more important....
I V Y Paris (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
Sarah Moroz writing for I V Y paris From the unedited archives of the Reporter Associati comes a collection of little-seen photos that will make cinephiles rejoice - cinephiles, and anyone with a penchant for gazing at incredibly good-looking Italians...
Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 transforms the director's preoccupation with his own creative difficulties and his tangled relationships with women into a wild film where fantasy and reality blend together seamlessly. Fellini's stand-in, the director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), is having problems making his next picture. He's out of ideas even though sets are being constructed and the characters...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
International News: Film is adaptation of A.B. Yehoshua's novel -- Italo auteur Gianni Amelio will shoot an adaptation of celebrated Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua's "Friendly Fire," a novel set in Tel Aviv and in Tanzania that interweaves contempo life in Israel and South Africa.
Something Old, Nothing New (Free subscription) | 05/13/2009
I was watching a film with Claudia Cardinale , and I was reminded that she has always struck me as the epitome of a sex symbol (or someone who was sold as a sex symbol) who is usually outclassed in sex appeal by someone else in the movie. I've said before that in The Pink Panther , Fran Jeffries in her one big (and irrelevant) scene manages to be sexier than either of the two leading ladies, Cardinale...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
International News: 'Phantoms 2' collects some 30 vintage films -- The Venice Film Festival will unspool a second installment of its revered vintage cinema Italiano retro titled "These Phantoms 2: Italian Cinema Rediscovered."
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 04/21/2009
Once Upon a Time in the West could actually have been the birth of the New Urbanist movement, since Claudia Cardinale's
Charles Bremner (Free subscription) | 04/18/2009
Regulars to this blog will be saddened to hear that Peter Kinsley has passed away. He died peacefully at his London home last weekend, Roger Wickham, his publisher, told me. He was 74. We will miss Peter's contributions, always rich,...
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