Sophia Loren
It is the Summer of Italy at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox, showcasing two stylistic extremes of Italian cinema; the expressionistic fantasies of Federico Fellini are on display in the gallery collection Fellini: Spectacular Obsessions and the harsh realities and noble beauty of Italy’s postwar plight in a programme of films titled Days of Glory: Masterworks of Italian Neorealism. In the period following the neorealist movement, one of Italy’s favourite leading men was Marcello Mastroianni and what a charmed existence the actor was able to lead: working with some of the medium’s greatest directors like Fellini and Vittorio De Sica while getting...
With Rob Marshall’s latest musical effort Nine it is no surprise that the only thing he able to perfect was his marketing campaign and diversity in casting choices. If any of you have the expectation or hope that Marshall’s interpretation of a Fellini classic is even close to his Academy Award winning 2002 jazz musical Chicago, please make sure your expectations are lowered immediately. The simplistic story begins with Guido Contini, the always hypnotizing Daniel Day-Lewis, a cinematic God and notorious socialite. Contini is on the verge of releasing details on his newest feature Italia without a script and without...
