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Today it's hard not to recognize Dolce's Sicilian roots, so ingrained are they in the fashion iconography of the late 1980s and '90s: Isabella Rossellini posing as an actress in the style of the neorealistic cinema that her father founded; Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington dressed as showgirls falling in love with Italian boys in New York City's Little Italy; Monica Bellucci re-enacting Fellini's La Dolce Vita. The designers' ad campaigns alone?most shot by Steven Meisel?are a lesson in vintage Italian style...
...characters seem straight out of Westchester.“Rent” achieves quite a bit by focusing on characters that its audience can get along with. It opens up a world that had been stigmatized and makes it palatable to the respectable viewers of Broadway plays and Hollywood cinema. But a movie that wants to truly tackle issues of poverty and disease in America would have to give itself a harder task. It would have to step across the street in Alphabet City to the homeless community. It would have to ignore the Westchester rebels and focus...
...stability due to sponsorship from Magners. Magners has also allowed the festival to widen its demographic appeal to Bostonians in general as well as its traditional audience of Irish and Irish-American moviegoers, hoping that viewers will be drawn to the festival’s unique cultural spin on cinema. Flynn credits Boston as particularly open to cultural festivals, citing local events like the French Film Festival and the Armenian Film Festival...
...would take a very stubborn and socially inept man not to immediately fall for Knightley’s Elizabeth, yet Darcy’s resistance is completely believable in MacFadyen’s reserved delivery. I am hard-pressed to think of a more tender moment in recent cinema than when MacFadyen’s hardened character finally does melt and confesses to Elizabeth the classic words, “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love...
...late ’80s/early ’90s hip-hop“The Wu-Tang Manual,” written by the RZA, reveals the diverse inspirations for his philosophy and art—the nine chapters are called spirituality, martial arts, capitalism, comics, chess, organized crime, cinema, chemistry (read: drugs), and Wu-Slang Lexicon. There is no one like this man working in entertainment today.The Crimson interviewed the self-described “organizer, producer, and mastermind of the Wu-Tang Clan,” because he is promoting “Derailed,” the trashy...