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...In Barrie Kosky’s must-see production, US soprano Lise Lindstrom sings Salome and British tenor John Daszak is Herod, while Swedish mezzo-soprano Katarina Dalayman plays Herodias....
...Blue and yellow Ukrainian flags fluttered amid posters of doves, while on stage a man crooned John Lennon’s antiwar song “Imagine”....
...This is where director Nanni Moretti in Dear Diary, a 1993 film beloved by Romans, says “Il quartiere che mi piace più di tutti è la Garbatella” (my favourite neighbourhood above all is Garbatella) as he...
...Their film nights were presided over by some of Italy’s most famous directors, including Paolo Sorrentino and Nanni Moretti....
...Directed by Nanni Moretti, 2015 Artificial Eye How do you do justice to something like loss in a movie? Nanni Moretti did it with The Son’s Room in 2001....
...In Nanni Moretti’s best films the life force and the laugh force are inseparable. Mia Madre would be funereal with self-pity without its comedy....
...The film was Nanni Moretti’s My Mother (Mia Madre). If no more films were coming, as I write, the Palme would be in his palm. What is it with this Italian actor-filmmaker and the bereavement theme?...
...We feel medium-safe with stars John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, the one a genial bearded lamp-post who resembles Italy’s Nanni Moretti, the other a crisp scatterbrain out of television’s Saturday Night Live...
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...Among those benefiting was Nanni Moretti’s Il Caimano, a full-on attack on Berlusconi. “There are no political criteria for funding,” said Reding’s office, which gave the film €128,000....
...Reding’s department dishes out subsidies to European filmmakers and a just- published list shows those benefiting include Nanni Moretti’s Il caimano, which got €128,000 for international sales....
...There has been John Cameron Mitchell’s steamy Shortbus, a paean to polysexuality with no-holds-barred scenes of gay lovemaking plus an orgy....
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