Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cinematheque shines spotlight on director Michael Cimino

2013-01-17 06:30:00

The American Cinematheque shines the spotlight on Oscar-winning director Michael Cimino with a three-day retrospective at the Egyptian in Hollywood. Cimino worked in advertising before turning to filmmaking. He co-wrote "Magnum Force," the 1973 "Dirty...

LACMA announces initial lineup for new film program

2011-09-14 16:33:08

Paris, with popcorn

2005-01-30 00:00:00

Nobody writes songs about January in Paris. It's cold and bleak, and the impenetrable rain clouds make 8 a.m. as dark as midnight. It's perfect weather for going to the movies, which is what I do. But I also go to the movies in Paris in April, May and...

European Film Academy to fete Bertolucci: Italian helmer to receive lifetime achievement award

2012-10-10 10:01:58

LONDON -- Italian helmer Bernardo Bertolucci is to receive the European Film Academy's lifetime achievement award, it was announced Tuesday. With a career spanning six decades, Bertolucci started out as an assistant director on Pier Paolo Pasolini's...

Fatherland

2012-08-24 21:55:06

Argentinian history is intriguingly revised through the writings of those who made it in "Fatherland." Footage consists of 100 minutes of people standing in Buenos Aires' La Recoleta cemetery reading aloud from books, which may not sound very dynamic, but...

Celebrity Scoop: Gale Harold

2012-01-05 12:22:26

The first time we met Charles Meade, the character played by Gale Harold in The CW's Thursday hit "The Secret Circle," he was watching impassively as a young mother was killed in a house fire he set by magic. Since then, though, the character has had his...

Artistas y pensadores prestan su lenguaje al mundo televisivo

2010-11-04 00:00:00

Se publica en castellano la correspondencia de Italo Calvino

2010-11-07 00:00:00

'The Nativity Story'

2006-12-01 00:00:00

As Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" powerfully demonstrated, lots of people are willing to spend serious money to see films with Christian subject matter. "The Nativity Story" is attempting to tap into that market by Leaving to Mel the Things That...

A genius for the wild, high-low mix

2007-02-25 00:00:00

Tonight, the Italian composer Ennio Morricone will receive an honorary Oscar. The Internet Movie Database lists 504 films and television shows that he has scored (and two more that have been announced). Among the well over 400 features, five of those...

Movie review: 'The Nativity Story'

2006-11-30 00:00:00

3 stars (out of four) Few stories are more familiar than the one told in "The Nativity Story"--a new film about the trials of Mary and Joseph, the journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem and the birth of Christ. So it seems a wonder at times that director...

Review: 'The Nativity Story'

2006-12-01 00:00:00

Few stories are more familiar than the one told in "The Nativity Story," a new film about the trials of Mary and Joseph, the journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem and the birth of Christ. So it seems a wonder at times that director Catherine Hardwicke and...

Laura Betti, an Italian actress who worked with famed film directors including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini and Bernardo Bertolucci, died in Rome on Saturday, July 31, 2004, after suffering a heart attack. She was 70.

2004-08-03 00:00:00