"moralist and upright man to the point to remove the posters of the film ""La dolce vita"", is sent there to control the Barbicane's work. Totò, Peppino e... la dolce vita Totò, Peppino e...la dolce vita (a.k.a. Toto, Peppino and the Sweet Life) is a 1961 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Corbucci. It is a parody of Federico Fellini's ""La Dolce Vita"" and it was filmed in the same sets. Antonio Barbacane is sent by his wealthy grandfather to Rome for trying to corrupt politicians to shift the route of a motorway on their town so to increase the"
"Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (; 28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor. His prominent films include: ""La Dolce Vita""; ""8½""; ""La Notte""; ""Divorce Italian Style""; ""Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow""; ""Marriage Italian Style""; ""The 10th Victim""; ""A Special Day""; ""City of Women""; ""Henry IV""; ""Dark Eyes""; and ""Everybody's Fine"". His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards. Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, and grew up in Turin and Rome."
"Tatò's four-hour documentary, """". The festival refused and the movie was shown. The three women reportedly tried to do the same thing at Cannes. Tatò said Mastroianni had willed her all rights to his image. Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (; 28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor. His prominent films include: ""La Dolce Vita""; ""8½""; ""La Notte""; ""Divorce Italian Style""; ""Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow""; ""Marriage Italian Style""; ""The 10th Victim""; ""A Special Day""; ""City of Women""; ""Henry IV""; ""Dark Eyes""; and ""Everybody's Fine"". His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards"
"1880s, during a real estate boom subsequent to the annexation of Rome to the new Kingdom of Italy. In the 1950s and 60s, Via Veneto acquired international fame as the centre of ""la dolce vita"" (""the sweet life""), when its bars and restaurants attracted Hollywood stars and jet set personalities such as Audrey Hepburn, Anita Ekberg, Anna Magnani, Gary Cooper, Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Jean Cocteau and Coco Chanel. The 1960 film ""La Dolce Vita"" by Federico Fellini immortalized Via Veneto's hyperactive lifestyle, lights, and crawling stream of honking traffic. Some of Rome's most renowned cafés and five star hotels,"
"The Life of Leonardo da Vinci La Vita di Leonardo Da Vinci — in English, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci — is a 1971 Italian television miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). The Golden Globe-winning miniseries was directed by Renato Castellani, and produced by RAI (the Italian national television) and distributed in the United States by CBS, which aired it from August 13, 1972 to September 10, 1972. Castellani wrote the screenplay. It was filmed entirely on location in Italy and France. The total runtime of the five episodes is nearly five"
"Giuseppe Tornatore Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered as one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema. In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as ""Everybody's Fine"", ""The Legend of 1900"", ""Malèna"", ""Baarìa"" and ""The Best Offer"". Probably his most noted film is ""Nuovo Cinema Paradiso"", for which Tornatore won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has also directed several advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana. Tornatore is also known for his"
"La Notte La Notte () is a 1961 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti (Umberto Eco appeared in a cameo). Filmed on location in Milan, the film is about a day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their deteriorating relationship. In 1961 ""La Notte"" received the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival (first time for Italian film), as well as the David di Donatello Award for Best Director. ""La Notte"" is considered the central film of a trilogy beginning with ""L'Avventura"" (1960) and ending with"
"of celebrities on the via Veneto. The scandal provoked by Turkish dancer Haish Nana's improvised striptease at a nightclub captured Fellini's imagination: he decided to end his latest script-in-progress, ""Moraldo in the City"", with an all-night ""orgy"" at a seaside villa. Pierluigi Praturlon’s photos of Anita Ekberg wading fully dressed in the Trevi Fountain provided further inspiration for Fellini and his scriptwriters. Changing the title of the screenplay to ""La Dolce Vita"", Fellini soon clashed with his producer on casting: the director insisted on the relatively unknown Mastroianni while De Laurentiis wanted Paul Newman as a hedge on his investment."
"main studios were and still are amongst the most important in the world, hosting some of the greatest films of all time. They were built in 1937, and they rose to fame as the Neorealist films of the 1940s, for example Roberto Rosselini's ""Roma Città Aperta"", and Vittorio De Sica ""Bicycle Thieves"". Possibly Italy's greatest film director, Federico Fellini, was often associated with Cinecitta and Roman cinema, with his classic films ""La Dolce Vita"" of 1960, and ""Rome"" in 1971. Pier Paolo Pasolini was also a highly controversial director associated with the studios, with famous films such as Il Decamerone"
"Felice Quinto Felice Quinto (1929 – January 16, 2010) was an Italian photographer. He was known for his photographs of celebrities and often referred to as the ""king of paparazzi."" It is reported that he was the inspiration of the paparazzi character in Federico Fellini's 1960 film ""La Dolce Vita"". Quinto was born in Milan in 1929. He later moved to Rome. Quinto began working as a photographer 1956. After striking up a friendship with director Federico Fellini, he was offered a role in Fellini's upcoming film, ""La Dolce Vita"". Quinto declined the offer for financial reasons, although he did"
"wider distribution and sees movements like la Nouvelle Vague (The French New Wave) featuring French filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard; Cinéma vérité documentary movement in Canada, France and the United States; Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Chilean filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and Polish filmmakers Roman Polanski and Wojciech Jerzy Has produced original and offbeat masterpieces and the high-point of Italian filmmaking with Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini making some of their most known films during this period. Notable films from this period include: ""La Dolce Vita"", ""8½""; ""La Notte""; ""L'Eclisse"", ""The Red Desert""; ""Blowup""; ""Fellini"
"hours. The Life of Leonardo da Vinci La Vita di Leonardo Da Vinci — in English, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci — is a 1971 Italian television miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). The Golden Globe-winning miniseries was directed by Renato Castellani, and produced by RAI (the Italian national television) and distributed in the United States by CBS, which aired it from August 13, 1972 to September 10, 1972. Castellani wrote the screenplay. It was filmed entirely on location in Italy and France. The total runtime of the five episodes is nearly"
"Anna Maria Tatò, an author and filmmaker. They remained together until his death. He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1994. Mastroianni died of pancreatic cancer on 19 December 1996 at the age of 72. Both of his daughters, as well as Deneuve and Tatò, were at his bedside. The Trevi Fountain in Rome, associated with his role in Fellini's ""La Dolce Vita"", was symbolically turned off and draped in black as a tribute. At the 1997 Venice Film Festival, Chiara, Carabella and Deneuve tried to block the screening of"
"Café de Paris (Rome) The Café de Paris was a famous bar on Via Veneto, one of the best known (and most expensive) streets in Rome, Italy. It was located at Nr. 90, close to the United States embassy. The bar was immortalised in 1960 in the movie ""La Dolce Vita"" by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini, starring Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée and Marcello Mastroianni who played a ""paparazzo"" riding his Vespa in search of celebrities. During the heady days in the 1960s, the cafe was one of the preferred watering holes of starlets, residual nobility, nouveau riche and sultans. On"
"to develop his drama ""with a skill that is excitingly fertile, subtle and awesomely intuitive."" On the review aggregator web site ""Rotten Tomatoes"", the film holds a 82% positive rating among film critics based on 17 reviews, and a 91% positive audience rating. Stanley Kubrick listed ""La Notte"" as one of his top 10 favorite films. La Notte La Notte () is a 1961 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti (Umberto Eco appeared in a cameo). Filmed on location in Milan, the film is about a day in the life"
"national populaire, and with Jean-Louis Barrault at the Odéon-Théâtre de France. His dramatic presence and measured diction made him well-suited to many classical roles. His first major role in the cinema was as one of the devil's envoys in Marcel Carné's film ""Les Visiteurs du soir"" (1942). A few other romantic leading parts followed, but increasingly he appeared in supporting roles, especially in characterizations of intellectuals such as the tormented philosopher Steiner in ""La Dolce Vita"" (1960), directed by Federico Fellini. He worked frequently in Italian cinema and had close associations with Michelangelo Antonioni and Francesco Rosi as well as"
"including classics such as Federico Fellini's ""La Dolce Vita"" (which featured a stage performance by Adriano Celentano), ""Profumo di Donna/Scent of a Woman"", as well as more recent popular films such as Guy Richie's ""Man from U.N.C.L.E."", which features the song ""Che Vuole Questa Musica Stasera"" in one of the film’s most iconic scenes for over 2 minutes uninterrupted by any dialogue or other form of sound. The song is performed by Peppino Gagliardi with Ezio Leoni and his orchestra. Also recognized as a successful talent scout, Leoni was the first to offer the first recording contract to artists that"
"The Family (2013 film) The Family (released as Malavita and Cosa Nostra in some countries) is a 2013 black comedy crime film directed by Luc Besson, starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones, Dianna Agron, and John D'Leo. The film follows a Mafia family in the witness protection program who want to change their lives. The film is based on the French novel ""Malavita"" (""Badfellas"" in the 2010 English translation) by Tonino Benacquista. Mafia boss Giovanni Manzoni, who offended Don Luchese, a rival mafia boss, survives an attempted hit on him and his family at a barbecue. He"
"Sergio Leone Sergio Leone (; ; 3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, credited as the inventor of the Spaghetti Western genre. Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. His movies include the sword and sandal action films ""The Last Days of Pompeii"" (1959) and ""The Colossus of Rhodes"" (1961), the Dollars Trilogy of Westerns featuring Clint Eastwood: ""A Fistful of Dollars"" (1964), ""For a Few Dollars More"" (1965) and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" (1966); ""Once Upon a Time in the West"" (1968); ""Duck,"
"then read the entire work. La Dolce Viva La Dolce Viva is a nonfiction novel written by Barbara L. Goldsmith, first published in 1968 in ""New York Magazine"", about a destroyed one-named actress, Viva, who is drugged out and couldn’t pay her phone bill. Barbara Goldsmith is an American author, journalist, and philanthropist. Her ""La Dolce Viva"" made known the sadder side of Andy Warhol’s entourage through Viva, a high on drugs “superstar.” ""La Dolce Viva"" is an interview story with ""superstar"" Viva, who is one of the many actresses in Andy Warhol's movies. Viva was headlined as 'The Last"
"La ricotta La ricotta (""Curd Cheese"") is a short film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1962 and is part of the omnibus film ""Ro.Go.Pa.G."" It is often considered the most memorable portion of ""Ro.Go.Pa.G"" and the height of Pasolini's creative powers and social criticism. In summary, the film deals with the film production of the Passion of Jesus with a director acting like Pasolini yet played by Orson Welles. The most biting social critique is shown through the main character of Stracci (meaning ""rags""). Stracci is a poor and starving man who works as an extra (ironically,"
"is in an ambulance blocked by the shooting of the famous scene of the Trevi Fountain from La Dolce Vita (Frederico Fellini, 1960). He sees the movie's main actor and playboy, Marcello Mastroiani talking to an actress: Luciana. The ex lovers sit for a talk. Antonio is worry to see she has developed an alcoholic habit. As in love as the first day, he invites her for diner the next evening when her impresario comes in and says she is busy that evening. Antonio starts a fight. She asks not to see him again. A decade later, Gianni is a"
"by Marco Bellocchio, ""The Best of Youth"" (""La meglio gioventù"") by Marco Tullio Giordana, ""The Beast in the Heart"" (""La bestia nel cuore"") by Cristina Comencini. In 2008 Paolo Sorrentino's ""Il Divo"", a biographical film based on the life of Giulio Andreotti, won the Jury prize and ""Gomorra"", a crime drama film, directed by Matteo Garrone won the Gran Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Paolo Sorrentino's ""The Great Beauty"" (""La Grande Bellezza"") won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The two highest-grossing Italian films have both been directed by Gennaro Nunziante and starred Checco Zalone: ""Sole"
"La Dolce Viva La Dolce Viva is a nonfiction novel written by Barbara L. Goldsmith, first published in 1968 in ""New York Magazine"", about a destroyed one-named actress, Viva, who is drugged out and couldn’t pay her phone bill. Barbara Goldsmith is an American author, journalist, and philanthropist. Her ""La Dolce Viva"" made known the sadder side of Andy Warhol’s entourage through Viva, a high on drugs “superstar.” ""La Dolce Viva"" is an interview story with ""superstar"" Viva, who is one of the many actresses in Andy Warhol's movies. Viva was headlined as 'The Last of Andy Warhol's ""superstars"", as"
"to the classic ""La Dolce Vita"" (1960). The Rome Film Festival official program is divided into several sections: A selection of feature films of young or already successful directors. The Festival will give priority to feature films that are world premieres. At the end of each screening, the audience will give their vote and assign the People’s Choice Award | Cinema d'Oggi. A selection of some of the year’s most important films. Only feature films that are world premieres, international or European premieres will be considered for selection. . A selection of films belonging to different film genres. Only feature"
"bianco"" (1952), ""I Vitelloni"" (1953), ""La Strada"" (1954), ""Il bidone"" (1955), ""Le notti di Cabiria"" (1957), and ""La Dolce Vita"" (1960). With Alberto Lattuada, he co-directed ""Luci del varietà"" (""Variety Lights"") in 1950. His two short segments included ""Un'Agenzia Matrimoniale"" (""A Marriage Agency"") in the 1953 omnibus film ""L'amore in città"" (""Love in the City"") and ""Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio"" from the 1962 omnibus film ""Boccaccio '70"". The working title for """" was ""La bella confusione"" (""The Beautiful Confusion"") proposed by co-screenwriter, Ennio Flaiano, but Fellini then ""had the simpler idea (which proved entirely wrong) to call it ""Comedy""""."
"34th Academy Awards The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961, were held on April 9, 1962, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope; this was the 13th time Hope hosted the Oscars. Legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini received his first Best Director nomination for his film ""La Dolce Vita"", though the movie itself failed to garner a nomination for Best Picture. Sophia Loren became the first thespian to win an acting Oscar for a non-English-speaking role as well as only the second person ever to win the Best"
"films of Tadeusz Konwicki, such as ""All Souls' Day"" (""Zaduszki"", 1961) and ""Salto"" (1962), inspired discussions about war and raised existential questions on behalf of their everyman protagonists. Federico Fellini's ""La Dolce Vita"" (1960) depicts a succession of nights and dawns in Rome as witnessed by a cynical journalist. In 1963, Fellini made ""8½"", an exploration of creative, marital and spiritual difficulties, filmed in black-and-white by cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo. The 1961 film ""Last Year at Marienbad"" by director Alain Resnais examines perception and reality, using grand tracking shots that became widely influential. Robert Bresson's ""Au Hasard Balthazar"" (1966) and"
"classic Italian films in the short, including several by Federico Fellini, such as ""La Dolce Vita"" (1960) and ""Amarcord"" (1973). Castello Cavalcanti Castello Cavalcanti is a short film written and directed by Wes Anderson and released in 2013. Starring Jason Schwartzman as an unsuccessful race car driver who crashes his car in an Italian village, the 8-minute film was filmed at Cinecittà in Rome, Italy and financed by Prada. It debuted at the Rome Film Festival and was released online on November 13, 2013. It quickly became viral and received critical acclaim. In a quiet Italian village in 1955, American"
"Records and Bounce Records. New version Dolce Vita (song) ""Dolce Vita"" is a song by Italian musician Ryan Paris, released as a single in 1983. The song was composed by Pierluigi Giombini, the same composer, producer, arranger and keyboard player of ""I Like Chopin"" and ""Masterpiece"". It reached the top 10 in many countries. The music video was filmed on-location in Paris. Interviewed for the book ""Europe's Stars of '80s Dance Pop Vol. 2"", composer Pierluigi Giombini explained the evolution of the song: It was Gazebo who suggested I should write a song inspired by the title of the famous"
"Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and Roberto Rossellini. Exploiting ""La Dolce Vita""’s success, financier Angelo Rizzoli set up Federiz in 1960, an independent film company, for Fellini and production manager Clemente Fracassi to discover and produce new talent. Despite the best intentions, their overcautious editorial and business skills forced the company to close down soon after cancelling Pasolini’s project, ""Accattone"" (1961). Condemned as a ""public sinner"" for ""La Dolce Vita"", Fellini responded with ""The Temptations of Doctor Antonio"", a segment in the omnibus ""Boccaccio '70"". His second colour film, it was the sole project green-lighted at Federiz. Infused with the surrealistic"
"Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007), was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story author. Best known for his ""trilogy on modernity and its discontents"" — ""L'Avventura"" (1960), ""La Notte"" (1961), and ""L'Eclisse"" (1962), as well as the English-language ""Blowup"" (1966)—Antonioni ""redefined the concept of narrative cinema"" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large. He produced ""enigmatic and intricate mood pieces"" and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story. Antonioni received numerous awards and"
"long illness in 2007. Luigi Comencini Luigi Comencini (; 8 June 1916 – 6 April 2007) was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the ""commedia all'italiana"" genre. His daughters Cristina and Francesca are both film directors. His first successful movie was ""L'imperatore di Capri"", featuring Totò. Comencini's 1953 ""Pane, amore e fantasia"", with Vittorio De Sica and Gina Lollobrigida, is considered a primary example of ""neorealismo rosa"" (pink neorealism). It was followed by ""Pane, amore e gelosia"". After a first work with Alberto Sordi (""La bella"