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...helped moderate the discussion, brought up another category of border-crossing elements: those of Benegal’s “working milieu.” Benegal listed a prodigious number of influences, ranging from American directors like Billy Wilder and John Ford to the French nouvelle vague and Italian Neo-Realists, from the works of Tarkofsky, Eisenstein and other Russian filmmakers—which were easiest to come by in his youth, he explained—to Kurosawa and, perhaps most importantly, Satyajit Ray, the director credited with founding the Indian “Parallel Cinema?...
Uncle Nino (Pierrino Mascarino) is an elderly Italian peasant who decides to travel to America for the first time to see Robert (Joan of Arcadia’s Joe Mantegna), his brother’s son, and what he finds is far from his expectations...
...helped moderate the discussion, brought up another category of border-crossing elements: those of Benegal’s “working milieu.” Benegal listed a prodigious number of influences, ranging from American directors like Billy Wilder and John Ford to the French nouvelle vague and Italian Neo-Realists, from the works of Tarkofsky, Eisenstein and other Russian filmmakers—which were easiest to come by in his youth, he explained—to Kurosawa and, perhaps most importantly, Satyajit Ray, the director credited with founding the Indian “Parallel Cinema?...
...ITALY As early as 1822, Italian entrepreneur Giuseppe Dal Niel rented the central apartments of the crumbling Venetian Palazzo Dandolo, the 14th century Doge's palace just off the Piazza San Marco. He restored and opened them to the public as the Hotel Royal, eventually acquiring the entire palace, which still welcomes guests today as the glittering Hotel Danieli. Many suites feature 18th century furniture and ceiling paintings; period artworks, some from the Caravaggio school, adorn the walls, and the d?cor?pink marble floors, gold-leaf columns and Murano glass chandeliers?are enough to make an old archduke weep. Rates...
...only a few places on earth. They are extremely rare and cannot be cultivated. They also stir the hearts of many chefs and can cost a small fortune to purvey. If you want to see for yourself the land of the truffle hunter, then take a plane to the Italian region of Piedmont in the Langhe hills. Alba, a two-hour drive north from Milan, is considered the spiritual city of the treasure, and prime truffle time spans from November to Christmas...