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...Scorsese last month at the Cannes Film Festival, where he showed 20 mins. of "Gangs" (which, by the way, appears to have a meaty role for its female co-star Cameron Diaz). I asked if he planned to tackle or embrace another national cinema, and I guessed that, if so, it would be France - surely the oldest and richest, the most varied and distinct movie tradition outside the U.S. He said yes, he might, and no, not France. He was thinking of Britain. Why? Because he saw lots of English movies when he was a kid, and that child, apparently...
...fabulous babes! As Italy was creating world-class cinema, it was also discovering world-class beauties to ornament its screens. They came in droves, often out of beauty pageants...
...about 12, instantly induced puberty. But Loren had the whole package: swan neck, laughing voice, a poise and perfect posture rare among tall women and, not least, the gift to inhabit any role, serious or silly, as if she'd been born there. For me, Loren was Italian cinema incarnate - until Claudia Cardinale came along, and then Stefania Sandrelli. The Italian-actress assembly line just kept producing masterpieces...
...Loren has a cameo in "My Voyage to Italy": an excerpt from "Gold of Naples." For four vertiginous hours, women glamorize this compilation film, as they do Italian (and every other) cinema. "Voyage" begins with Magnani's death in "Open City" and ends with Cardinale's seraphic smile in "8-1/2." Bergman is at the center of the Rossellini segment, as Vitti is of the Antonioni. The emotional peak of the whole opus is an 18-min. pr?cis of "Senso," whose ravishments are incarnated by Valli's gift for reckless passion glowing through a steely sheath. The most poignant...
ARMED TO THE TEETH It could have been a scene from a Bollywood version of The Godfather. I entered the highly recommended vegetarian Sindhi Restaurant near Varanasi's Lalita Cinema to find half a dozen men sitting at the center table, rifles and sawed-off shotguns casually slung across the backs of their chairs. I thought it best not to ask why. None of the other diners, well ensconced in their peeling vinyl booths, appeared perturbed. Nor was I, once my thali, or set meal, arrived. Usually served on a flat metal plate divided into sections, thalis are a traditional...