Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steal a scene from either Bombolini would amount to grand larceny, and the supporting players are all petty. Virna Lisi, as an icy aristocrat, is confined to reaction shots opposite her two admirers: Hardy Kruger, a profile of German authority, and Sergio Franchi, a profile, period. The show's force does not reassert itself until the appearance of the extras, a cluster of paesani recruited from an Italian village 36 miles south of Rome. They provide a chorus con brio, and give the film verisimilitude no casting office could provide. "The Italian race," wrote Mussolini, "is a race...
...Jimmy Miller. 241 pages. Knopf. $5.95. After the virtual depopulation of the U.S. and Russia by a Chinese poison plague in A.D. 2004, a tough New Yorker, a beautiful Parisian aristocrat and a hippie from Venus hunt for the missing Chinese war criminals. An overstrained, social-satire freak...
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Tony Richardson does his best film making since The Entertainer in this smooth and savage adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel about the hopeless love of a blind English aristocrat (Nicol Williamson) for a brazen movie usherette (Anna Karina...
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Tony Richardson does his best film making since The Entertainer in this smooth and savage adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel about the hopeless love of a blind English aristocrat (Nicol Williamson) for a brazen movie usherette (Anna Karina...
Prince Kropotkin "passed" from one race to another, though not quite successfully. An anarchist among aristocrats, he remained an aristocrat among anarchists; paradoxically, this gave him a special strength in the revolutionary movements he helped to found. He was immune from the Russian intellectual's vice of soul-searching; as a prince, he never questioned his own actions...