Cinema
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Mon, 09/13/2010 - 06:38
The Venice Film Festival, which closed on Saturday, awarded the coveted Leone d'Oro for Best Film to director Sofia Coppola for “Somewhere”.
In this film, a…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Mon, 08/30/2010 - 09:41
To conclude our series on romantic summer films set in Italy, we look at “September Affair”, a weepie from 1950, an era in which it was considered rather…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Mon, 08/16/2010 - 10:55
“The most beautiful place to be is in love.”
This 1996 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and written by Bertolucci and Susan Minot has it all: mystery,…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Thu, 08/12/2010 - 05:24
The small hill town of Montappone [Marche] has been a millinery centre since the seventeenth century and now it celebrates its art in an exhibition charting…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Mon, 08/09/2010 - 07:02
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In this 1965 weepie, based on a novel by Rumer Godden, Maureen O’Hara is Moira, a British woman who leaves her kind, decent husband for…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Mon, 08/02/2010 - 03:54
In this 1994 film Marisa Tomei is the aptly named Faith, a young woman who believes in destiny: as a child the name of her future soulmate, Damon Bradley, is…
Lifestyle
by Pat Eggleton | Fri, 07/30/2010 - 05:03
Julia Roberts gained 10 pounds in weight whilst filming “Eat, Pray, Love” in Italy, she tells the Daily Mail today. During the film, the actress had to eat…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Mon, 07/26/2010 - 07:15
Is there anyone who has been to Rome and not thrown a coin into the Trevi fountain? Three American women visit the fountain at the beginning of this 1954 film…
Culture
by Pat Eggleton | Mon, 07/19/2010 - 07:32
“Under the Tuscan Sun” [2003], based very loosely on a book of the same title by Frances Mayes, is a film you either love or hate. If you are expecting it to…
Lifestyle
by Pat Eggleton | Mon, 07/19/2010 - 06:14
There were chaotic scenes both outside and inside a Milan court on Friday, the day George Clooney came to town. The actor was there to testify against three…
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