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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini , 1922-75, Italian writer and film director. A former Roman Catholic and a Marxist, Pasolini brought to his work a combination of religious and social consciousness. His early works, including the novel A Violent Life (1957; tr. 1985) and the first film he directed, Accatone ... Read more |
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Rembrandt Bugatti
Bugatti, Rembrandt (1885–1916). Italian sculptor and draughtsman, son of Carlo Bugatti (1856–1940), who is best known as a furniture designer but also painted, and brother of the famous automobile designer Ettore Bugatti (1881–1947). He was born in Milan and worked mainly in... Read more |
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Italo Svevo
Italo Svevo , 1861-1928, Italian novelist, whose real name was Ettore Schmitz, b. Trieste. A businessman, he wrote several works of fiction, but remained practically unknown until discovered by James Joyce . His fiction is psychological and introspective, his characters mainly narcissistic, and his... Read more |
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Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani Italian stage and screen actress Anna Magnani (1909–1973) gained international fame with her passionate performance in director Roberto Rossellini's Open City, the first major work of the Italian neo-realist cinema movement. In the United States, Magnani was nominated twice for... Read more |
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci , 1940-, Italian film director and screenwriter, b. Parma. The son of poet Attilio Bertolucci and himself a published poet, he began his film career in 1961 as an assistant to director Pier Paolo Pasolini . Bertolucci made his first feature-length film the following year and... Read more |
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Piers Plowman
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Piers Paul Read
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Anna Bahr-Mildenburg
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Anna Deavere Smith
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Home Video Premiere of Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1962 `Mamma Roma'
...Paolo Pasolini's 1962 `Mamma Roma' Starring. Anna Magnani...1962 masterpiece Mamma Roma when the film premiered...Desperate to save him, Mamma Roma blackmails a restauranteur...s profession.Mamma ... |
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Rome, Lives Lie in Ruin in Poignant `Mamma Roma'
MAMMA ROMA (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) 1/2 Mamma Roma Anna Magnani Ettore Ettore Garofolo Carmine Franco Citti A...at the Music Box. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Mamma Roma," a poignant portrait of post-Fascist Italy, traveled... |
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MAMMA ROMA
* MAMMA ROMA It's impossible not to compare Federico...Cabiria and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mamma Roma. Both are set in postwar Italy, concern...the poetry of thought, philosophy. Mamma Roma is cinema in the condition of a ... |
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Mammas Roma!
Mammas Roma! Italian mans chance to pay debt is no 'mater of convenience. In August...Valeria De Franciscis). Since his sole occupation seems to be caring for Mamma (and lubricating himself with vino bianco), he's months behind on his... |
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Magnani as `Mamma': zesty Mother Courage
MAMMA ROMA Directed and written by: Pier Paolo Pasolini...in Italian, subtitles) Unrated "Mamma Roma," dating from 1962 and having its belated...stylistic hallmark of short, jabbing takes. "Mamma Roma" is at times sentimental, ... |
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Finally, Magnani's `Mamma'
...the two collaborated in 1962 on "Mamma Roma," the missing link between these...smolder, she actually erupts. "Mamma Roma," Pasolini's overheated second...enjoying her moment . . . then Mamma Roma crashes the party. She's ... |
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From the Murrumbidgee to Mamma Lena: foreign-language broadcasting on...
...1950s, particularly those of 'Mamma Lena' in Sydney. It considers...wide readership and the name 'Mamma Lena', which led to an invitation...listeners now had their own 'Mamma' to take her place among the...Lena began hosting Arrivederci Roma on Tuesday ... |
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Streep Studies `Roma'
...s trying to counter that criticism. The Oscar winner has been watching Anna Magnani in the somewhat obscure 1962 "Mamma Roma" film, hoping to pick up a bit of Italian earthiness she feels her character needs. B.Z. |
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Italy's Totti says he's no mamma's boy after arrival of his family
...SENDAI, Japan All is fine, Mamma's here. Italy's star forward...important member of the entourage: Mamma. Totti denied Wednesday that he's a mamma's boy, but added: "Mamma...re here with me," the AS Roma attacker said. "They're... |
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Mamma mia! From zuppe to fruitti di bosco, Buona Sera offers the premiere...
...was extremely delicate. Served on a large plate with a rich balsamic vinaigrette style sauce and a lovely border of diced red Roma tomatoes, it was still not enough for the chef. So he added a chiffonade of lettuce in a nice mound at one end of the plate... |