Federico Fellini

...you can throw a coin, which is supposed to ensure your early return to Rome. It's also where legendary movie director Federico Fellini shot Anita Ekberg in that iconic scene for his film La Dolce Vita. Take a snap of yourself beside it if...

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...two Tonys, including Best Revival. Nine centers on Guido Contini, a heralded film director (much like Federico Fellini) who, fearing he is losing his touch, escapes to a Venetian spa for rejuvenation. Blurring the lines of fantasy and...

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...her feelings. You don't see the technique that underlies that." You see plenty of technique in Nine, the musical inspired by Federico Fellini's autobiographical film 8½. Cruz was the first actress Marshall met with. She read for three...

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...be fixed overnight. I've been involved for four years,' she said. 'But I'm in it for the long haul.' In the beginning, there was Federico Fellini's 8½, which won the best foreign film Oscar in 1963. It starred Marcello Mastroianni as a film...

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...he'll be belting out love songs like a pro to the many women in his life. "Nine" is inspired by Federico Fellini's "8 1/2." Penelope Cruz appears as his mistress, Nicole Kidman as the star of the movie he fears he can't make. Oscar...

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...scorers come Oscar time, Rob Marshall's Nine is a star-studded adaptation of an acclaimed 80s musical, itself loosely based on Federico Fellini's 8½. Mr Oscar himself, Daniel Day Lewis, stars as Guido Contini, a harried film director who's in...

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...with English subtitles. "La Strada" There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband, the legendary Federico Fellini, directs her as Gelsomina in "La Strada," the film that launched them both to international...

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...Dench, Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Marion Cotillard, Kate Hudson and the pop singer Fergie. The story of Nine is based on Federico Fellini's 1963 classic autobiographical film 8½. Like the original and the subsequent Broadway musicals,...

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...it an 82 percent positive rating. Cruz calls both movies homages to cinema -- "Nine" to the work of the Italian director Federico Fellini, and "Broken Embraces" to the tradition of film noir. After playing a prostitute, a nun who falls in...

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...role that Cruz will play in the movie. And of course, the musical is based on a 1963 autobiographical movie by director Federico Fellini. One of the original reviews said this of the Fellini film: "It is like a series of acrobats that a...

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