Topic: Roberto Benigni

The Nutcracker in 3D

(We don't generally report on Hollywood's business, but someone's nuts are definitely getting cracked. This isn't a 3-D version of the Tchaikovsky ballet?which might have been cool?but rather a headache-inducing musical set in twinkly 1920s Vienna ...

Italy

The most costly Italian production to date, Roberto Benigni's adaptation of the children's classic Pinocchio failed disastrously to win the international popularity of his Oscar-winning 1997 Life Is Beautiful. In the genre of biography, Franco Zeffirelli offered an impressionistic portrait ...

Johnny Stecchino

Johnny Stecchino is an Italian slapstick comedy film starring Roberto Benigni in two leading roles alongside his off-screen wife, Nicoletta Braschi.. She, suspiciously, appears very fond of Dante, and her motives become even more ambiguous when we quickly learn she is married ...

Roberto Benigni

He is a popular comedian in Italy and is best known in the U.S. for his role in Life Is Beautiful , which he wrote and directed. Life Is Beautiful Benigni was raised in Manciano , Italy and first began acting at 20 ...

Life Is Beautiful

Also known as La vita é bella , Roberto Benigni wrote, directed, and starred in this Italian film. It is set in 1939 and is a YahooMovies:
Like many people I have been watching the Academy Awards since I? was old enough to understand the show. I did a lot of cheering and crying in 1993 when Tom Hanks received his Oscar for? "Philadelphia. "? In his acceptance speech he ...
Son of the Pink Panther directed by Blake Edwards written by Blake Edwards, Madeline Sunshine, Steven Sunshine starring Robert Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale, Shabana Azmi, Debrah Farentino, Robert Davi, Jennifer Edwards, Anton Rodgers, Oliver Cotton The film, which was released ten ...
The Tiger and the Snow" ("La Tigre e la Neve" in Italian) is Roberto Benigni remaking "Life is Beautiful. " Early in the movie, he is courting a woman played by the actress from "Life is Beautiful" (his real life wife Nicoletta Braschi ...

World Cinema: Ten Films to Watch

one not in English) does really well at the box office and opens the public's eyes to the fact that there are some great movies being made in the rest of the world. The story is set during the Holocaust, with ...
Winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in early 1999, Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful, remains in the top three best movies of this film student. If you want death and hatred, you got it. With the setting being 1940 ...