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Introducing a seven part Robert Altman season, this example of the great American directors theatrical work from the 1980s follows on from the James Dean commemoration just finished. In a Texas diner, near the set of Giant, a fans reunion on the 20th anniversary of Deans death unearths old hostilities
What you see is what you get. The title says it all. Mystery horror thriller. Emily Rose (a harrowing performance from Jennifer Carpenter) is exorcised but dies in the process, which puts the exorcist, parish priest Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson) in the dock on negligent homicide charges. A story in
James Deans last movie (he died days after finishing it) and his least appealing, especially in the latter part where the youth icon is compelled to age. As the younger Jett Rink, Dean has all the attractiveness of his rebellious persona, but is perhaps upstaged by megastars Elizabeth Taylor and
Over-hyped, over-cooked and over here, Fantastic Four with its quartet of feeble supermutants, Mr. Fantastic, The Thing, The Invisible Woman and The Human Torch finally (hopefully!) brings the superhero movie franchise to the meltdown point of no return. Not even supervillain Dr. Doom can lift the picture above
Teaming Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda in a Meet the Parents style comedy romance would seem to be a recipe for disaster. The veteran has been enticed out of semi-retirement to play the monstrous mother-in-law-to-be cliche to good bu barely credible effect, while the far
Roald Dahl's famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for the screen for a second time, and Tim Burton's delightful version of the industrial fairy tail provides an opportunity for Johnny Depp to do a creepy impersonation of the misanthropic entrepreneur, Willie Wonka. Any resemblence
My daughter’s battle against culture shock was won with the purchase of a used red bicycle. It cost her thirty euros and she’s assured me that the brakes work. She said that a bike is a permanent thing that has helped her feel grounded. “If
Florence is full of fashion schools: Polimoda, L’Accademia Italiana, Fashion Design Lab, Universita’ di Firenze (Architettura, progettazione Moda), to only name a few, and Lorenzo de Medici school’s fashion department has merged with the Atelier school to enlarge their fashion program. Thousands of students from
When my Italian then-girlfriend, now-wife, and I moved in together, our First Big Fight wasn’t about money—we didn’t have enough to fi ght about. It wasn’t about any of the sources of confl ict you might guess would plague a
Barbara Deimling is the Director or Syracuse University in Florence. Barbara, who is originally from Germany, has always loved Florence and came here in 1997 to join the faculty and then became director. She lives in Florence with her husband and 3 young children. What do you love about
James Dean's second movie and the defining moment of teenage existentialism with its insecurity, confusion, isolation and vulnerability. Deal excels in Nicholas Ray's prescient dissection of emerging youth culture as a new boy Jim Stark making the painful journey from casual delinquency to determined commitment via dysfunction, death,
Roald Dahl's famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for the screen for a second time, and Tim Burton's delightful version of the industrial fairy tail provides an opportunity for Johnny Depp to do a creepy impersonation of the misanthropic entrepreneur, Willie Wonka. Any resemblence
John Singleton makes an urban western in this revenge thriller in which the four adopted sons of senselessly murdered Evelyn Mercer vow to avenge her death. Their common mean streets background gives them a unity of purpose and the energy they need to confront the criminal underworld of Detroit. Classic
The first of James Dean's three movies, and the one tha catapulted him to celebrity, securing his plac ein Hollywood firmament. Type-cast from the start, Dean plays the troubled adolescent, Cal Trask at odds with his father and brother in this treatment of part of John Steinbeck's
A guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues. Adam West, Micheal Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney have all had the privilege, but Christian Bale has more issues than most- he's less camp, more convincing- in this earnest Batman prequel, as possibily the best Bruce Wayne
The romantic comedy Must Love Dogs features Miss Lonely-hearts Diane Lane set up for internet dating and looking for suitable company with a borrowed canine friend. It also has the likeable John Cusack. Unfortunately, the result is painful, especially in the script department. For masochists only.
In the summer of 1949, a Marchese, a scion of an aristocratic Tuscan family, created his very first clothing line, all in black and white. By the time his house of fashion was born in 1951, he’d found his pale turquoise, his sea green, his lemon yellow,
I like Edison as much as the next person. Indeed, when I first arrived in Florence, I jokingly referred to it as my second home. It was where I checked my e-mail, had my morning cappuccino, went to the loo, did my Italian homework, and wrote in
The Leather School is located in the historic Monastery of Santa Croce and its creation was a collaborative effort of the Franciscan friars of the Basilica of Santa Croce and ...
When one considers the musical landscape that The White Stripes have jumped into, you’ve got to give them credit for doing so damn well. After five albums, they sound as fresh as ever. Offering new guitar pleasures and witty lyrics to the common folk. This recording again shows
After last year’s emotionally draining Million Dollar Baby, and the long tradition of boxing biopics that came before that (all the Rocky’s and Raging Bulls) yet another one might seem superfluous. But the first-rate teaming of Ron Howard and Russell Crowe (the second time,
Roald Dahl’s famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for the screen a second time, and Tim Burton’s delightful version of the industrial fairy tale provides an opportunity for Johnny Depp to do a creepy impersonation of the misanthropic entrepreneur, Willie Wonka.
A futuristic thriller warning of the dangers of human cloning and the harvesting of spare body parts, with a strong cast not quite succeeding in enlivening a structurally unsound movie of two philosophically unreconciled halves. The two attractive protagonists Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Scarlet
