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To Each His Own Dolce Vita: in the Golden Age of Italian Cinema 1948-1972

To Each His Own Dolce Vita: in the Golden Age of Italian Cinema 1948-1972

Lane, John Francis
Sutton, Paul

Hardcover

Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiographies GeneralFilm Studies

ISBN10: 199972318X
ISBN13: 9781999723187
Publisher: Camera Journal
Published: Jun 21 2020
Pages: 540
Weight: 2.11
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Declining to come of age in an England locked in austerity and sexual repression, John Francis Lane moves to Paris, meets Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau and Edith Piaf and embarks on a lifelong feasting on the best that the art world can offer. He devours landmark works by Maria Callas and Luchino Visconti, Eduardo De Filippo, Franco Zeffirelli, Dario Fo. He moves to Rome when Hollywood arrives to make Ben-Hur, Roman Holiday and Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra, a film in which John Francis Lane is cast as Bacchus. He parties wth Grace Kelly, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alberto Moravia and Gina Lollobrigida. As a foreign correspondent for Films and Filming magazine, he befriends Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini, Francesco Rosi and appears in their finest films. He works with Sophia Loren, Monica Vitti, Silvana Mangano, Anna Magnani and Claudia Cardinale. He acts with the three biggest box office stars of the era, Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman and Totò. He is employed by the great producers Dino De Laurentiis, David O'Selznick, Alfredo Bini and Carlo Ponti, and works with Sean Connery, Orson Welles, John Wayne, Alain Delon, Richard Burton, Warren Beatty, Peter Ustinov and Rock Hudson. He is robbed by Pasolini's street boys, causes a riot, and finds it impossible to resist a man in uniform.

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