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...Five in the Afternoon (the title is from a Federico Garc?a Lorca poem about the death of a bullfighter) is set after the Taliban's fall, when women have won the right to schooling but many men aren't happy about it. A young woman, Noqreh (Agheleh Reza?e), has heard the siren call of modernity?women of Afghanistan, throw off your burqas and slip into that darling pair of white shoes you've been hiding! Noqreh does just that after her theologically strict father drops her off at school...
...theft of four religious statues from churches in southern Italy, demanding that the hierarchy give $53,000 to the poor. The ransom was never paid, the statues never returned. Given that taste for direct action, it's a wonder the Blissett Project's four founders - Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Federico Guglielmi and Luca di Meo - had the patience to pen a doorstopper like Q. The novel is a sweeping saga of the 16th century religious wars touched off by the Reformation. Fast-paced, richly detailed and teeming with hundreds of characters, it throbs with violence, heroism, betrayal...
...dubbing voices for radio, then went on to play roles ranging from doctors and cab drivers to Fascist officers in more than 160 movies. Most memorably, he played the title character--a spoiled soap-opera star who is the object of a small-town bride's romantic fantasies--in Federico Fellini's 1952 classic The White Sheik...
...lured artists and playwrights to revise and adapt Pinocchio, and a roster of cinema greats and not-so-greats have risen to the challenge, though, to Italian eyes, none has ever quite nailed him. Benigni told a preview audience two weeks ago how his friend, the late Italian director Federico Fellini, used to call him Pinochietto and urged him to do a Pinocchio. "I feel so much like Pinocchio that when I see a tree, I yell out, 'Daddy!'" he said when the project was launched. Keeping him company on his adventure is his wife and very own Blue Fairy...
...lured artists and playwrights to revise and adapt Pinocchio, and a roster of cinema greats and not-so-greats have risen to the challenge, though, to Italian eyes, none has ever quite nailed him. Benigni told a preview audience two weeks ago how his friend, the late Italian director Federico Fellini, used to call him Pinochietto and urged him to do a Pinocchio. "I feel so much like Pinocchio that when I see a tree, I yell out, 'Daddy!'" he said when the project was launched. Keeping him company on his adventure is his wife and very own Blue Fairy...