Marshall Fine: Interview: Pedro Almodovar talks Broken Embraces
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
It's a crisp fall day in Manhattan and Pedro Almodovar is explaining why his hotel room is all wrong for a movie scene, in terms...
Roberto Rossellini
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Movie stars I loved as a kid - Ingrid Bergman
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) : She is best remembered for her role as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), a World War II spy drama co-starring Humphrey Bogart . ... A few of her other starring roles besides Casablanca included the films For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), Alfred Hitchcock 's Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), and Under Capricorn (1949), and the...
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50 Films (2500 maximum)
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) .. Bela Tarr The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein The Mother and the Whore (1973) .. Jean Eustache The...
Explore : Abbas Kiarostami, Alain Resnais, Béla Tarr, Budd Boetticher, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Chantal Akerman, Charles Burnett, Chris Marker, Cinema, F. W. Murnau, Jacques Becker, Jacques Rivette, Jean Eustache, Jean Renoir, Jean Vigo, Max Ophüls, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Terence Davies, Vincente Minnelli, Yasujiro Ozu
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Adam Hartzell on Art & Copy
Hell on Frisco Bay (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Roxie Theater has announced a number of its Fall and Winter bookings. In reverse chronological order, let me run them down. The venue will close out its centennial year of existence (it opened in 1909 as the C.H. Brown Theater) with a Christmas Day through New Year's Eve booking of the neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves a.k.a. the Bicycle Thief (the latter being a less-precise translation of the...
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2009 List #1: US DVD Premieres
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Well, here it is, the first of sure-to-be-many end of the year/decade lists on the blog. As most of the DVD releases for 2009 have already been announced, I figured it safe to cross the Region 1, US DVD premieres off the list early. All of the DVDs below are for films that were previously unavailable on DVD in the States (though it's possible one or two might have had an unofficial bootleg circulating)....
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Saint Francis, God's Jester (1950)
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Italy Feature Film Original Title: Francesco, giullare di Dio Director: Roberto Rossellini Writers: Federico Fellini, Father Antonio Lisandrini, Father Félix Morlión, Brunello Rondi, Roberto Rossellini Cinematographer: Otello Martelli Composer: Renzo Rossellini Cast: Fra Nazario Gerardi, Fra Severino Pisacane, Aldo Fabrizi, Peparuolo, Arabella Lemaitre, and the Monks of the Nocere Inferiore...
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Paris pays tribute to 50th anniversary of “La Dolce Vita”
Living in Italy (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
ANSA) - Paris, October 22 - The French capital is paying tribute to Italian cinema legend Federico Fellini with a series of initiatives marking the 50th anniversary of ‘La Dolce Vita’. Three months of events are planned, including exhibitions, conferences, debates, a DVD collection and a film fair. The centrepiece of the celebrations is an [...]
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'I don't live through my family': Isabella Rossellini's daughter Elettra Wiedemann eclipses her Hollywood heritage
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Lucky Elettra Wiedemann. With looks inherited from Isabella Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman (her mum and grandma), a successful career in modelling was a given. But where does the master’s degree in biomedicine fit in? That'll be her Harvard graduate dad.
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Fellini's '8 1/2', Wenders' 'Paris, Texas' and Soderbergh's 'Che' Coming to Criterion Blu-ray
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Anyone that reads this site even on a semi-regular basis probably knows I absolutely love Federico Fellini's 8½ and that is one of the major reasons I am so looking forward to Rob Marshall's musical adaptation Nine. So, to learn Criterion is bringing the Fellini classic to Blu-ray with a brand new 52-minute documentary on [...]
- January Criterions and More! - Fin de Cinema
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Squid Pro Quo
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Gotta love Isabella Rossellini. The beautiful international Hollywood royal, daughter of Italian director Roberto Rossellini and Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman is a bit of an eccentric. She was David Lynch's muse and lover for many years and of late has been dressing up as various insects and animals to graphically and artistically demonstrate their sexual behavior in short films made for the Sundance...
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A real animal attraction
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
Isabella Rossellini squints as her gaze falls across the room, toward a forest of six-foot-tall penises – pointed, sheathed, in one case, two-pronged – rendered in bright construction paper.
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You Must Remember This.
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
Jose here to commemorate Ingrid Bergman who would've turned 94 today. The Swedish acting goddess starred in dozens of films, won three Academy Awards, two Emmys and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a career that spawned over four decades. She is best known for her iconic role in Casablanca (for which she wasn't nominated for an Oscar surprisingly) and her history with the Academy is rather bizarre....
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Dino De Laurentiis: a selected filmograpy
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Dino De Laurentiis at 90: Movies including 'Europa 51' and 'La Strada' -- Select filmography of Dino De Laurentiis
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isabella
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
ingrid's daughter. muse to many. she has a twin sister and one heck of a last name. her papa, roberto rossellini, brought the world to tears with his film 'open city.' or was that anna magnani? photograph by robert mapplethorpe
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Film industry vet Tullio Kezich dies
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Obituary: Cinephile was a critic, Fellini biographer -- Tullio Kezich, a prominent figure in European cinephile circles who was Italy's leading film critic and Federico Fellini's most authoritative biographer as well as a scribe, producer and occasional actor, died in Rome on Monday.