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'Woman of Rome': Lily Tuck reveals a woman of the world
Italy's decay under the Mussolini dictatorship from the 1920s until the twilight of World War II is one of history's most poisoned chapters. The Fascist demagogue emulated Hitler's mass persecution of Jews, warping the society as wartime retrenchments...Tags: Benito Mussolini, Family, Adolf Hitler, History, Simone Weil
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NOW PLAYING: A guide to area art house and second-run theaters
NOW PLAYING •indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. ♦indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest. BACinema Beverly Arts Center 2407 W. 111th St. 773-445-3838 beverlyartcenter.org •'Singin' in the...Tags: Jack Nicholson, Ivan Reitman, Bill Murray, University of Chicago, Debbie Reynolds
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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: Charlton Heston, Vincent van Gogh, Charles Laughton, Kirk Douglas, Fiction
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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: Book, Ingmar Bergman, Sophia Loren, Michelangelo Antonioni, Salvador Dali
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Filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni Dies
Zap2It.comMichelangelo Antonioni, one of Italy's most famed modernist film directors, has died at the age of 94. The filmmaker died late Monday night, July 30, following the death of famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. Antonioni received Oscar nominations...Tags: Jack Nicholson, Ingmar Bergman, Vanessa Redgrave, Steven Soderbergh, Death and Dying
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A screening room to call home
Times Staff WriterBILLY WILDER HAD THREE GREAT LOVES — his wife, Audrey, cinema and collecting art. So it only seems natural that UCLA Film & Television Archive's new home, titled the Billy Wilder Theater and made possible by a $5-million donation from his widow,...Tags: Ernst Lubitsch, Film Festivals, Billy Wilder, Shirley MacLaine, Curtis Hanson
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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: Literature, Eddie Murphy, Film Festivals, Theft, Walter Hill
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'The Good German'
Times Staff WriterThe first scene of Steven Soderbergh's "The Good German," which is set in Berlin at the end of World War II, instantly calls to mind Roberto Rossellini's "Germany Year Zero." The last scene is a dead ringer for "Casablanca." Book-ended between the neo-...Tags: Sex, Tobey Maguire, Family, Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney
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Movie review: 'The Best of Youth'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC4 stars (out of 4) Sometimes great movies burst on us in unexpected ways. "The Best of Youth," director Marco Tullio Giordana's extraordinary film about two brothers and their family, friends and lovers traveling through almost four turbulent decades...Tags: Luchino Visconti, Teen-agers, Classical Music, Ingmar Bergman, People
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Movie Review: 'Turtles Can Fly'
Tribune Movie Critic3 1/2 stars (out of 4) Bahman Ghobadi's "Turtles Can Fly" is the first feature film out of Iraq since the war, which would make it historic cinema in any case. But it's also a beautiful, intensely moving film. That makes it a cause for celebration....Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Vittorio de Sica, Refugee, Cinema Industry, Saddam Hussein
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Return to glorious Lipari
Times Staff WriterThat's it, I thought, emptying a plastic bag of capers, the last of the little hoard I'd brought home last summer from the Italian island of Lipari. I've eaten capers many times without really knowing what they are: the immature buds of a shrub that loves...Tags: Beverage Industry, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Michelangelo Antonioni, Euripides, Air France-KLM
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'Turtles Can Fly'
Times Staff WriterIn the opening scene of Iranian Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi's "Turtles Can Fly," a cluster of Kurdistani children in Northern Iraq stands in a field holding up TV antennas like kites. ("Sexy channels" are prohibited by Saddam Hussein; news channels...Tags: Vittorio de Sica, Beverly Hills, Armed Forces, Weaponry, Defense
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