Le Grand Rex in Paris will screen Handel’s Ariodante on Monday 30 June, with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie, filmed for cinema with 7.1 sound.
The Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate will be broadcast to 909 cinemas in 33 countries worldwide in the new year.
As the 2020 edition of the International New York Film Festival comes to a close, an Italian entry stands out called Tides of Memory, inspired by an encounter with William Kentridge and his extraordinary work Triumphs and Laments on the embankment of the River Tiber, a powerful, poetic and bemused reflection on man, time and…
Akram Khan‘s Giselle will be released in cinemas for the first time from 25 April 2018, thanks to a collaboration between English National Ballet and digital commissioning agency The Space, giving UK ballet fans, and later fans all over the world, the opportunity to see this award-winning production on the big screen. Giselle was re-imagined by…
William Kentridge’s mural, Triumphs and Laments, in Rome became the city’s biggest contemporary art work and is also Kentridge’s largest public work. The 550m stretch of black and white images was unveiled on 21 April 2016. It was commissioned to mark the anniversary of Rome’s founding in 753BC. The mural’s inauguration was celebrated by a…
When I can to Rome the first time with my family we were six in one room: father, mother and four children. Gina Lollobrigida, who today celebrates her 90th birthday, has for many years lived in her grand villa on the Appia Antica, the long Roman road which now links villas and parks on the…
Romeo and Juliet, 22 September at 7.15pm The Royal Ballet By Kenneth MacMillan Music: Sergey Prokofiev Le nozze di Figaro, 5 October at 6.45pm The Royal Opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Dir: David McVicar Cond: Ivor Bolton Cast includes Erwin Schrott and Anita Hartig Viscera / Afternoon of a Faun / Tchaikovsky pas de deux /…
Sophia Loren will be returning to the big screen in a film based on Jean Cocteau‘s 1930s play La Voce Umana (The Human Voice). Loren last appeared in the cinema in Lina Wertmuller’s Peperoni Ripieni e Pesci in Faccia (Too Much Romance, It’s Time For Stuffed Peppers) in 2004, and on television in La mia casa e’ piena di…
Sandra Milo was born in Tunis 11 March 1933. She made her film début alongside Alberto Sordi in The Bachelor in 1955, but it wasn’t until she was discovered by Federico Fellini that she came into her own. Although she she had ‘retired’ after getting married, in 1963 Fellini convinced her to take on the role of the sexy, lightheaded mistress…
‘A British Love Affair’, an exhibition exploring Marilyn Monroe‘s connection with Britain, will be at the National Portrait Gallery from 29 September. The display is free to visit and coincides with the 50th anniversary of Monroe’s death. Portraits of Monroe by British photographers will be shown alongside rare magazine covers, vintage prints, lobby cards and film stills…
This great snap, from a reception at the Rome Film Festival in 2009, shows the two leading-ladies cracking up with laughter. Any ideas what somebody might have said or done? Suggestions please… this needs a good caption!
Producers Barbra Streisand and Joel Silver have set Academy Award-winning writer Julian Fellowes to pen the screenplay adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ Tony Award winning musical, Gypsy, which Streisand and Silver are currently developing for Universal Pictures. Streisand will portray “Momma Rose” in the new version, her first musical film since Yentl in…
Woody Allen‘s 1994 film “Bullets Over Broadway” explored the travails of an aspiring playwright struggling to bring his creation to the Great White Way. And now, in a possible case of art imitating, um, art, Allen is working on a musical adaptation of the film, with a Broadway premiere tentatively slated for 2013, reported Reuters….
“Uggie has not been asked to participate or appear at the Oscars,” said The Weinstein Company, distributors of “The Artist”. Without an official invitation or credential, the playful Jack Russell terrier, 10, will not be able to romp with other stars on the Oscar red carpet as the silent film front-runner vies for the movie…
The Arab world’s most famous comic actor, Adel Imam, has received a three-month jail sentence for insulting Islam in films and plays. Imam, who has frequently poked fun at authorities and politicians of all colors during a 40-year career, has one month to appeal the sentence and will remain out of jail until the appeal…
Kate Winslet is to work with Kenneth Branagh for the first time since they made Hamlet in 1996, says Variety. Winslet will star in the director’s latest film, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Branagh has described the project as “a beautiful romance, very touching and uplifting.” The film is to be based…
I want to report a rape. My body of work has been violated by The Artist.” This is a statement by Vertigo star Kim Novak. Novak says she was appalled when she sat down to watch the Oscar front-runner and found that an important sequence in the movie shamelessly lifts Bernard Hermann’s score from Vertigo….
On Christmas Day the BBC2 will transmit Darcey Bussell Dances Hollywood, a tribute to the great film musicals. Bussell talked to the Radio Times’ Alexia Skinitis about the dancers who have inspired her: Fred Astaire As a little girl, I didn’t dream of being a ballet dancer, I dreamt of being a movie star like Ginger Rogers…
International Movie Database’s Top 10 Stars list this year: Natalie Portman Mila Kunis Johnny Depp Emma Stone Chris Hemsworth Olivia Wilde Jennifer Lawrence George Clooney Ryan Gosling Christian Bale Why Portman? “You can see why,” says IMDb managing editor Keith Simanton. “She won a Best Actress Oscar for Black Swan, was in the news welcoming…
Everyone’s talking as if Meryl Streep had already won an Oscar for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady, though the film will not be released for another month. In the meantime The Sunday Times talked to the actress about the effort in playing such a formidable character. On seeing Margaret Thatcher speak at her daughter’s university…
Nino Rota would have been 100 today. He died in 1979 but his work is well remembered 30 years on. The Italian composer was born in Milan and although he wrote operas (Il cappello di paglia di Firenze – The Florentine Straw Hat – is the most well-known), concerti, and instrumental works, it is his film music for which he is…
Meryl Streep has defended her portrayal of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a frail old woman suffering from dementia in The Iron Lady, says BBC News. The film has drawn criticism from Baroness Thatcher’s former colleagues, including former Conservative party chairman Norman Tebbit who called the performance “half-hysterical, over-emotional”. Streep told the BBC, I felt that if…
Meryl Streep was named best actress by the New York Film Critics Circle for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the forthcoming film The Iron Lady. The film includes scenes from Lady Thatcher’s childhood up to the present day, and portrays the price she paid for power. The award from New York was Streep’s fourth best…
Left-wing Italian film-maker, Nanni Moretti, has attacked many institutions in his time: his 2006 film The Caiman laid in to Berlusconi. Not a surprise then that the Catholic Church would eventually be a target, though with Habemus Papam he hasn’t gone in for the kill, only stirred things up a little with this comedy which has not upset the church…
Ken Russell, the British director of “Women in Love” and “The Devils”, has died at the age of 84. In a statement his wife said, It was completely unexpected. He had recently agreed to direct the feature film Alice In Wonderland The Musical and he was working on the script and casting of that.” Russell began his directing…
James Earl Jones has received an honorary Oscar on the London stage, to the surprise of his matinee audience. Jones, currently starring opposite Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy – said he was “plain gobsmacked” as he accepted the award. The 80-year-old was presented with his Oscar on stage by Sir Ben Kingsley. Jones, whose…
The great Italian actress Monica Vitti is 80 today. She passed seamlessly from being the muse of the intense Michelangelo Antonioni, to becoming Italy’s favourite comedienne in films such as 1973’s hilarious Polvere di stelle, with Alberto Sordi. She had a stunning screen persona which managed to combine physical beauty and perfect comic timing. Her husky…
Leslie Caron is in London as An American in Paris is about to be in the cinemas once again. She talked to The Times: When I first arrived in Hollywood I had never seen a musical. I was only 18. Until then I had been a premier dancer in the Ballets des Champs-Élysées, in Paris. Then,…
Barbara Kent, one of the last surviving stars of silent films, who performed alongside Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo and Harold Lloyd has died at 103. A brunette, baby-faced beauty, both shapely and petite — most sources say she was under five feet tall — Ms. Kent made her film debut in “Prowlers of the Night,”…
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