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ROME – Gabriele Ferzetti, the silently seductive Italian actor who rose to international prominence during the 1950’s and 60’s, when he played a dissolute playboy opposite Monica Vitti in Michelangelo ...

2 Russians, 2 Jews, and a Puerto Rican walk into a bar ...

restoration of “L’Avventura,” kicking off its bi-coastal run on July 12 at New York’s Film Forum and LA’s Cinefamily. If you’ve already seen the film, you will most likely see it again at some point, ...

Well, Sandro, 41 years later, “L’Avventura” is clearly not only built to last, but belongs to that rare handful of films that somehow grow more contemporary every year. By all rights doomed when it ...

L'Avventura is not a sequel to La Dolce Vita; it is not social criticism; it is the finest film to reach Boston this year. Set in the Italian upper class, L'Avventura studies an individual, not a ...