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MARRIED. Martin Scorsese, 36, American film director (Taxi Driver, Mean Streets); and Italian Actress-Journalist Isabella Rossellini, 27, daughter of Screen Star Ingrid Bergman and the late director Roberto Rossellini; he for the third time, she for the first; in Bracciano, Italy, with Actor Robert De Niro as best...
Next year he will probably live in Bracciano, outside Rome. But there are offers from several U.S. universities and an invitation to Japan in the fall. He frankly revels in the attention. There have been too many years when his books were such frequent flops that his publishers made him adopt a pen name. What he really seems to be seeking is the ideal retreat in which to write those 20 books still in his head. It might yet be found in the green and rainy climate he left. · Martha Duffy
...exceptional were the performances of Weston and Haskell that it would be almost unfair to criticize the cast for failing to meet their standards. Almost without exception the play's acting is strong; only Arthur Friedman's Bracciano is repetitious and stuffy. Edward Landreth sounds like he's gargling when he's most enraged, but his expressive face and hands, plus a number of effective speeches enrich the play...
Shot largely around the ancient villages of Bracciano and Soana near Rome, the picture's cold, grey, documentary photography powerfully evokes a world of medieval desolation. At the same time, the picture glows with a warm lyricism. In its blend of tenderness and turbulence, Flowers of St. Francis is a film poem that deserves to rank with Rossellini's own Open City and Paisan...
Farther inland the Allies swung around craterlike Lake Bracciano, dashed into walled Viterbo, classical home of hand-ome fountains and beautiful women. More than 400 smashed Nazi vehicles strewed Highway No. 2 from Rome. Near Highway No. 3, outside Civita Castellana, General Mark Clark's men found the tunneled underground stronghold where Kesselring had joked with his staff, studied his maps...
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