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Film Picks

AMC's critically acclaimed "Mad Men" returns to the small screen March 25, but until then, there's the N.C. Museum of Art's Winter-Spring Film...

Drink to Mafia's bad health at Rome's Dolce Vita cafe

ROME (Reuters Life!) - During the heady days of the Dolce Vita in the 1960s, Rome's Cafe de Paris was one of the preferred watering holes of starlets and sultans.Later, one of the places that gave the world the word paparazzi ...
Around the same time that Federico Fellini's masterpiece La Dolce Vita came out, a young designer named Valentino first met the man who would be...

Italian film director Monicelli leaps to his death

ROME (Reuters) - Mario Monicelli, 95, who directed some of postwar Italy's most famous films and launched the careers of some of the country's greatest actors, jumped to his death from a Rome hospital window on Monday, Italian media said.Monicelli ...
A Rome hospital says Oscar-nominated director Mario Monicelli has died after jumping from a fifth-story hospital window.. Anna Scoltore, who heads the media office of Rome's San Giovanni hospital, confirmed Monicelli died Monday night. He was 95.. Monicelli worked with some ...

Top 50 foreign films

There's no need to fear subtitles when so much of what Hollywood has come to love (pop-cultural patter, epic swordplay, urban ennui, etc. Suddenly, Woo's double-pistol showdowns were everywhere, inspiring the as-yet-to-break Quentin Tarantino and Hollywood at large. WILD STRAWBERRIES ...

La Dolce Vita a turning point in cinema: Scorsese

"In my mind, there is a before and after 'La Dolce Vita'. It breaks the rules," said Scorsese at a film festival in the Italian capital."Primarily, up to that time, in the 1950s there was a major presentation of films that ...

Rome film festival to fete Fellini's Dolce Vita

ROME (Reuters Life!) - The Rome Film Festival will fete the 50th anniversary of Fellini's classic "La Dolce Vita" with the first screening of a restored copy and a retrospective of the glory days when Rome was called Hollywood on the Tiber ...
A jury led by US director Quentin Tarantino was to award the coveted Golden Lion on Saturday to one of 24 films vying for the top prize at the 11-day Venice film festival.A Silver Lion for best director, Volpi prizes for ...
A new print of Breathless - the iconic 1960 movie by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard - is going to be shown at the Film Forum here in Manhattan, starting tonight, in honor of the classic film's 50th anniversary, and I'm ...