The Great Beauty

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The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

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Paolo Sorrentino to make movie about Silvio Berlusconi
The Oscar-winning director will follow HBO show The Young Pope with Loro, about the former Italian prime minister and his inner circle

Catherine Shoard

05, Sep, 2016 @4:33 PM

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Cannes 2015: how foreign-language film-makers took over English-language arthouse
This year’s film festival is dominated by movies made in English by non-native English-speaking directors. Is this an ominous sign of Hollywood killing off foreign cinema?

Steve Rose

01, May, 2015 @8:30 AM

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The top 10 … cities on film
From Michael Mann’s de-romanticised LA in Heat to Nic Roeg’s mysterious Venice in Don’t Look Now, these films tease out cities’ nuances and cast them as characters in their own right

Peter Bradshaw

18, Aug, 2014 @8:36 AM

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Italian cinema boom brings la dolce vita back to the big screen
John Hooper: As the Venice film festival approaches, Italy's own movie industry appears in fine fettle – but not everyone is cheering

John Hooper

26, Jul, 2014 @1:16 PM

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Why I'd like to be … Toni Servillo in The Great Beauty

Continuing our series in which writers reveal which movie characters they emulate, Peter Walker explains why he so admires Servillo's exceedingly urbane Jep Gambardella: it's not the linen suits but the keen awareness of life's everyday magic

Peter Walker

30, Jun, 2014 @7:30 AM

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Rachel Weisz joins Paolo Sorrentino's new film Youth

The British actor has joined the cast of the new film from the Oscar-winning Italian director, along with Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Harvey Keitel and Paul Dano

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

06, May, 2014 @7:44 AM

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The Great Beauty film director honoured for 'making Rome proud'
Neapolitan native Paolo Sorrentino given honorary citizenship of capital city after La Grande Bellezza's triumph at the Oscars

Lizzy Davies in Rome

14, Mar, 2014 @6:33 PM

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Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino to pair up with Michael Caine

Italian director who carried off best foreign film statuette for The Great Beauty lines up veteran British actor for In the Future

Andrew Pulver

05, Mar, 2014 @9:21 AM

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The Great Beauty wins best foreign language film Oscar

Italian study of Rome high society, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, takes Academy award

Andrew Pulver

03, Mar, 2014 @2:49 AM

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The Great Beauty portrays Italy more faithfully than its new prime minister | Arianna Letizia and Santiago Zabala
Arianna Letizia and Santiago Zabala: The film shines a spotlight on Italy in a way Matteo Renzi won't – which is why the Italian media has panned it

Arianna Letizia and Santiago Zabala

27, Feb, 2014 @12:00 PM

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12 Years a Slave joins Gravity, The Great Beauty … and Alan Partridge on the Guardian Film Awards shortlist

Oscar favourites mingle with little-known movies on the reader-voted shortlist for the Guardian Film Awards

Catherine Shoard

18, Feb, 2014 @11:59 PM

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