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Lush score enhances voluptuous images
There's a new print in town of Federico Fellini's noisome, virtually plotless 1973 fantasia, set in a storybook version of his hometown during the Fascista era. Through Fellini's wide eyes we see what happens when a village's male population is...Tags: Movies, Music Box Theatre
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Newly restored print of 'Miracle on 34th Street' at the Academy
Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" may be the best-loved Yuletide movie, but certainly nipping at its heels is the delightful 1947 fantasy "Miracle on 34th Street." Edmund Gwenn won the supporting actor Oscar for his enchanting turn as Kris Kringle,...Tags: Theater, Maureen O'Hara, Mickey Rourke, Movies, Macy's
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Italian tourism stuck in Web tangle
Wall Street JournalBranding Italy may be harder than you think. This fall, the Italian government will revive plans to create a Web portal aimed at attracting tourists to the nation. Though plenty of visitors flock to Italy's cities, beaches and countryside all year...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Contracts, Corporations, Silvio Berlusconi, WPP Group Plc
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'Sweet Charity'
Special to The TimesSince first produced more than 40 years ago, "Sweet Charity" has undergone an unfortunate metamorphosis from the sweetly sentimental to the downright treacly. Granted, Cy Coleman's music and Dorothy Fields' lyrics combine in some memorable standards ("...Tags: Theater, Dorothy Fields, Bob Fosse, Dancing, Molly Ringwald
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'Federico Fellini: The Book of Dreams'
ANYONE familiar with the films of Federico Fellini knows that he gave importance to dreams. But the extent of that devotion has become fully evident only now, with the publication of "Il Libro dei Sogni" -- "The Book of Dreams." These sketches, mostly...Tags: Movies, Celebrity, Marcello Mastroianni, Cinema Industry, Jimmy Carter
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10 books and movies to prep for a trip to Rome
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf you're planning to visit Rome before you die, it pays to prepare for the experience. Here are 10 books and movies to help you understand what you see in the Roman Forum, at the Vatican and on the Piazza Navona. 1. "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1961, by...Tags: Movies, Anna Magnani, Marcello Mastroianni, Fiction, Charlton Heston
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In tackling the big questions, Antonioni raised the bar for filmmakers
Special to The Times++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ How ironic -- yet oddly fitting -- that Michelangelo Antonioni should die in Italy, at 94, the day after Ingmar Bergman died at 89 in Sweden. At the time of their deaths they were arguably Europe's two...Tags: Francois Truffaut, Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Movies, Claude Chabrol
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A language all can understand
The EnvelopeThe title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' current exhibition, "From 'Amarcord' to 'Z': Posters From Fifty Years of Foreign Language Film Winners," is a bit misleading because the show actually covers 60 years of Academy Award-winning...Tags: Movies, Language, Hobbies, Cinema Industry, Academy Awards
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'Exterminating Angels'
Times Staff WriterRather than "fade in," the screenplay for French filmmaker Jean-Claude Brisseau's symbol-laden erotic drama, "Exterminating Angels," could very well have begun with, "Dear Penthouse ... " Though the film expresses a kinship to Luis Buñuel, Federico...Tags: West Hollywood, Movies, Cinema Industry, Jean-Luc Godard, Colorado
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Give Scorsese his due
The EnvelopeAfter 30 years of slights and snubs, it's time for the academy to give Martin Scorsese an Oscar. It may have taken forever, but Bob Dylan won a Grammy and Satchel Paige made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Now the academy must right a wrong of its...Tags: Cinema Industry, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jack Nicholson, Jimi Hendrix
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'Mafioso'
Times Staff WriterYou won't forget "Mafioso" and you won't be seeing another movie like it. A magnificent film almost no one knows about, this hidden classic offers a wider variety of pleasures than most contemporary works can even aspire to. One of those pleasures is the...Tags: Movies, West Los Angeles, Literature, Santa Monica, Francis Ford Coppola
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Show time at the Wilder
Times Staff WriterThe UCLA Film & Television Archive's new venue, the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, officially opens Friday with a screening of the Oscar-winning 1960 Wilder classic "The Apartment." Two days later, the archive kicks off its "Art of Light"...Tags: Theater, Theft, Cinema Industry, Roberto Rossellini, Butch Cassidy
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