Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
... select stars at last month's Tribeca Film Festival, where the actress financed the restoration of Federico Fellini's "Toby Dammit" film."I've always wanted to design my own jewelry line, so it's a dream come true," said the 53-year-old actress, adding she was inspired by her personal pieces collected during her travels since her teenage years.Muti has created a 50-piece collection...
Cinema Blend Feeds (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Working hard in front of the cameras and the expectations of award season is exhausting. Occasionally, it can be too much for some, like Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men), who recently dropped off Nine. Others feed off the energy and take up the slack. Case in point -- Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood) has taken Bardem's place in the musical based on Federico Fellini's superb...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... is no stranger to litigation, as he was recently sued by International Media Films, the owners of Federico Fellini's iconic classic motion picture "La Dolce Vita." Unlike that case, here it is alleged that Lucas' copyright infringement relates to the theft of the movie actual. Although not raised in the complaint, Lucas appears to also have knowingly and willfully violated 18 U.S.C....
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Rex FeaturesDaniel Day-Lewis is in talks to join the cast of Rob Marshall's musical Nine.Day-Lewis is looking to take the role of Guido Contini, an Italian director based on Federico Fellini who battles through a personal crisis while trying to juggle the women in his life.The There Will Be Blood star would assume the role vacated by Javier Bardem, who of Nine citing fatigue and stress...
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... or bitters around I won't be trying it right now. Below that volume was Tullio Kezich’s biography Federico Fellini: His Life and Work . Here’s what is asked for, coming from a chapter on his first film, LO SCEICCO BIANCO (THE WHITE SHEIK) and beginning near the end of a paragraph: “Trieste’s brilliant debut is clouded only by the fact that Fellini decides to have Carlo Romano...
Broken Projector (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
With I Vitelloni (1953), the great master filmmaker Federico Fellini really tells the story of our lives. The film is set in a small Italian coastal town of Rimini (which co-incidentally also happens to be Fellini’s hometown) and tells the life story of a group of friends. There is the skirt-chaser Fausto, the hard working [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... about what they will wear. Philip Treacy: Giulietta degli spiriti' (Juliet of the Spirits, Federico Fellini, 1965) Fellini's first feature-length colour film is a surreal masterpiece in fashion and film. I saw it when I was a student and I'll always remember the night scene, where someone walks into a garden and the rose bushes are wrapped in Cellophane. A lot of hats are worn...
WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.In 1982, the musical "Nine," inspired by the Federico Fellini film "8½," opened on Broadway.In 1987, 183 people were killed when a New York-bound Polish jetliner crashed while attempting an emergency return to Warsaw.Ten years ago:Indonesian President Suharto left his troubled country for a summit in Egypt with a warning his army...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Film News: Festival president championed the auteur -- Three portraits dominate Gilles Jacob's homey office at Cannes Festival headquarters in Paris. Propped against walls are mounted posters of Francois Truffaut and Marlene Dietrich. Above a sofa, in a pop-art fresco, Federico Fellini, with sombrero and long coat, stands on a blue-skied Cannes beach.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
... popular writers of fantasy and science fiction, having impressed people as diverse as filmmaker Federico Fellini, novelist Christopher Isherwood, Renaissance Scholar Bernard Berenson, popular fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and filmmaker Francois Truffaut, who adapted Fahrenheit 451 into a movie. Bradbury's body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems and essays. His other...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
... mythology.) Anyway, when we were discussing two of his favorite directors, Françcois Truffaut and Federico Fellini , I called them filmmakers, distinguishing them from the story-tellers I love (Kazan, Billy Wilder , Frank Capra and Stephen Spielberg to name a few). What these latter understood, I said, was that movies showed us all that is good in the world. I thought that line, about...
In Case You Didn't Know (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
... Sophia Loren and Bardem's girlfriend Penelope Cruz . It is loosely based on Italian director Federico Fellini’s acclaimed autobiographical 1963 movie 8 ½ – about a sexually active movie director. Antonio Banderas starred in a 2003 Broadway revival. In related Nine casting news, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench are reportedly in negotiations to join the film, says Variety . Source WENN...
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Robert Downey Jr. is the hot name on the streets now as it took a superhero movie for people to finally realize the man can act. Now, let's get him into a role that has nothing to do with superheroes why don't we? Variety reported this morning that Javier Bardem has dropped out of the lead role of Rob Marshall's upcoming musical Nine based on Federico Fellini's 8? . The reason he dropped...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
If you've always wanted to see Javier Bardem doing his best Marcello Mastroianni only with musical numbers you're out of luck. The Oscar winner has dropped out of Rob Marshall's upcoming movie musical adaptation of Broadway's Nine (itself an adaptation of Federico Fellini's 8½ ) at a very late stage. [ src ] I don't mean to be alarmist but I'd bet a significant dollar amount that you'll...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
By now, the films of Federico Fellini have become synonymous with spiritual and sexual caricatures, grotesque personal carnivals that conflate the everyday with ornate and fantastic tableaux of surreal decadence. His later surrealist works are unquestionably as convoluted as they are dazzling to behold. In the best of them, the chaotic pageantry he methodically orchestrates overwhelms...
