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DARK SECRETS: Fellini - The Real Truth

What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever

With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times

The Guardian - UK

Millions of tourists flock to it every year – but how does Rome’s Trevi Fountain work?

The monument has featured in everything from Fellini’s La Dolce Vita to Netflix’s Emily in Paris

The Independent UK

Lady Blackbird review – flamboyance and nuance from late-blossoming jazz-soul star

Behind the impressive Grace Jones-esque stage outfits, the US singer is blessed with both lung power and sensitivity

The Guardian - UK

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Yvonne Furneaux obituary

British-French actor of the 1950s and 60s who worked with directors including Federico Fellini and Roman Polanski

The Guardian - UK

Metamorphoses/Minotaur; La Strada review – Alina Cojocaru dances with her entire heart and soul

The seemingly invincible ex-Royal Ballet star is transfixing in a new work by Kim Brandstrup, and elevates a tricky Fellini adaptation by Natália Horečná, the dancer’s first full-length ballet commission as a producer

The Guardian - UK

Beshkempir, or The Adopted Son review – part childhood memoir, part mysterious folk tale

There are touches of Fellini and Satyajit Ray in the gentle, unforced artistry of Aktan Abdykalykov’s film, which casts the director’s son in the title role

The Guardian - UK

Napoli and Diego Maradona, the enduring bond

It's literally raining stars in Naples. Social media is flooded with such clips, one even shows celebrating Nepolitans ‘driving’ an illuminated boat through the city’s streets. It could well be a scene from Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino’s 2021 growing up film which is abundant with such allegories about the…

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Ariadne auf Naxos review – Strauss’s harlequinade gets a dusting of silver-screen magic

Rodula Gaitanou’s relocation of Strauss’s opera to Rome’s Cinecittà studios brings many gains, plus there’s impeccable playing, lovely singing – Elizabeth Llewellyn’s Ariadne particularly – and even fireworks

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: Bruno Barbey captures life on the road in 1960s Palermo

The Magnum photographer’s image of a family in Sicily recalls Fellini and Visconti in its romantic depiction of everyday Italian life

The Guardian - UK

‘Everywhere I looked, it was like a Fellini movie’ … the youth of Odesa, photographed before the invasion

Yelena Yemchuk spent five years capturing the city’s bohemian, irrepressible young at a time of protests and attacks. It turned into a powerful record of Ukraine’s agonising slide into war

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