Daily Briefing. Visions and Adaptations
David HudsonThe visions are from the 1970s, the adaptations from the mid-19th century.
Marco Bellocchio
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Venice 2010. Wrap
David HudsonIt's been a week and a half since the night of those controversial awards. Time to wrap Venice 2010 with one final roundup. The festival closed with Julie Taymor's The Tempest and, while the lineup
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Sight & Sound, Kinokultura and a Manifesto
David HudsonNick Hasted opens the Italian Cinema Special in the May issue of Sight & Sound: "When Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo and Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah caused a double sensation at Cannes in 2008, Sorrentino
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"Greenberg," "Runaways," "Dragon Tattoo," "Vincere" and More
David Hudson"Sad, funny, and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach's Greenberg is unafraid to project a downbeat worldview or feature an impossible protagonist," writes J Hoberman in the Voice. "I'd be hard
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The Auteurs Daily: Toronto and NYFF. Vincere
David Hudson"Less a biography on the early life of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini than a dissection into creating (and sustaining) a cult of personality," writes Acquarello, "Marco Bellocchio's Vincere is a textured