Word: tommaso
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...action begins in the hospital room where Tommaso, wonderfully played by Berhhard Wicki, is dying. Lidia and Giovanni, his only friends, visit him, and the camera watches this touching conversation from the ceiling, thus somehow revealing the tired fragility of the marriage. Tommaso speaks of the dissatisfying charade they all play, and one is prepared to watch the protagonists try to put an end to it. In one of the rare overstatements of the film, Tommaso complains of how the hospital is like a night club, only to have the nurse bring a bottle of champagne for him to share...
...attempting to make it with Tina, Lidia refusing to take any part in the proceedings and eventually going off with a man she's mever met. But she to too honest to kiss him and returns to the party, depressed by a phone call to the hospital which revealed Tommaso's death. Steadily the pace has been building, and in a climactic scene, Lidia, Giovanni, and Tina finally manage to communicate their feelings to someone other than the audience. The decrescendo follows swiftly, and film ending with a walk on the golf course and an embrace in the sand trap...
Futurism got its name from the Italian Poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who in 1909 issued a flamboyant manifesto calling for a new philosophy of art suitable to the age of the machine. Not Pegasus, he declared, but the racing car, "with its hood draped with exhaust pipes like fire-breathing serpents," should be the new symbol of poetry. "A racing car, rattling along like a machine gun, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace." The artist should "sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and boldness...
...display was a magnificent triptych by Puccio di Simone and,a crucified Christ by Francesco D'Antonio di Bartolomeo. Probably the finest single work in the show was the Corsini Ma donna and Child with Angels, painted in the 1480s by Filippino Lippi. As far as Prince Tommaso Corsini knows, the Madonna has always belonged to his family, but last week, for a while at least, it belonged to all Florence...
...television, the cops grudgingly allow the private eyes to solve their cases for them. But, like Tom himself, Police Chief Nardone did not quite meet TV specifications. Before he knew what had happened, Tommaso Ponzi, private eye, found himself charged with impersonating an officer, violation of domicile, restraint of person and arbitrary arrest. Tom's suspects, who had admitted to being part of an estimated $500,000-a-year ring, walked out of the station free men-because the police themselves had not caught them red-handed as the law requires...