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Comedies and crime dramas at London’s Italian Film Festival 2011

Posted on 1 March 2011 by Jason Best

London’s Italian Film Festival 2011 kicks off tonight, 1 March 2011, with a concert at London’s Cadogan Hall by Nicola Piovani, winner of the Academy Award for the score of Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful in 1998. Over the next … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Il Divo: The Spectacular Life of Giulio Andreotti – Out on DVD

Posted on 8 August 2009 by Jason Best

To Italians the British must appear rank amateurs when it comes to political corruption. While British MPs fall on their swords over piddling expenses claims, Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi remains serenely in power, impervious to reports of his buffoonish … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Il Divo – Surreal portrait of Giulio Andreotti, Italy’s puppet master

Posted on 20 March 2009 by Jason Best

With this surreal and sardonic, resolutely offbeat biopic of controversial Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, Paolo Sorrentino confirms his status as one of contemporary cinema’s most dazzling visual stylists. His subject is the sphinx-like figure who was at the heart of … Continue reading →

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