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The allure of D’Annunzio
Lucy Hughes-HallettTHE PIKEGabriele d’Annunzio, poet, seducer and preacher of war694pp. Fourth Estate. £25.978 0 00 721395 5 The Times Literary Supplement (Christopher Duggan) - Exactly what happened...
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Italian Actress Monica Bellucci on Feminism & Doing Bold Roles
Monica Bellucci walks into the room and everyone gasps with awe and exhilaration. It’s like the scene from her most-talked about film Malena (2000) in which a handful of teenagers sit by the ocean side...
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Catherine Dunne. Italian job
Catherine Dunne is a very gifted writer on the literary end of the popular fiction spectrum. A former teacher in the same school as Roddy Doyle on Dublin’s northside, she has seven highly praised...
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Aniello Arena: From Gangster to Movie Star
Aniello Arena was convicted of gunning down three rival Naples thugs in 1991. In jail he found a new life through acting – and earned rave reviews at Cannes starring in a comedy about reality TV Let...
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Eurovision Song Contest: Marco Mengoni will represent Italy
Marco Mengoni will represent Italy at the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest with L’Essenziale, his Sanremo winning song. The 2013 Italian entry is included in Marc0′s latest album # PRONTOACORRERE....
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Amanda Knox film: Hayden Panettiere apologizes to murder victim’s family
Hayden Panettiere bounds across the lobby of a deeply fashionable New York hotel. She waves and grins broadly before settling into an armchair and seizing the cocktail menu. ‘You’re British, you’ll...
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Film composer Ennio Morricone: I’ll Never Work With Tarantino Again
The 84-year-old conductor, who has worked with the “Django Unchained” director on four films, says he uses music “without coherence.” Ennio Morricone, the prolific Italian composer and conductor who...
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More than half of Italians don’t read books
«The issue is not to read or not a gossip magazine, but to read at all…». In 2012, only 46% of Italians read at least one book in the whole year: 51.9% of women and 39.7% of men. A percentage that,...
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Habemus Papam: the “prophecy” movie by Nanni Moretti
In 2011, Italian director Nanni Moretti made a movie, “Habemus Papam” (“We Have a Pope”), about a cardinal elected a most reluctant pope starring 85-year-old French actor Michel Piccoli as the pope....
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Reality, the movie: A chat with Italian director Matteo Garrone
Q: Why did you decide to make a comedy? Matteo Garrone: I wanted explore a different genre and I really wanted to do a comedy. I think there are a lot of things in common with all my work. Gomorrah was...
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