“She’d probably spent the night in bars,” said filmmaker Jean Renoir, remembering Anna Magnani, star of his thrilling valentine to acting and the theater, The Golden Coach. Magnani, he explained, ...

Italian actress Anna Magnani on the set of Pier Paolo Pasolini's 'Mamma Roma' Photo by Arco Film/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: A biopic devoted to legendary Italian Rome, Open ...

It wouldn’t be hyperbole to suggest that actress Anna Magnani was a key figure in helping to rehabilitate Italy’s image after World War II. Playing the wife of a resistance fighter in Roberto ...

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Hard to believe, but in 1946 actual Nazis were being tried for war crimes in Nuremberg at the insistence of the United States. Nazi Germany, having started and lost World War II, was in big trouble ...

A few days after I watched Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin for work, I revisited Mamma Roma (1962) at the Pier Paolo Pasolini retrospective currently underway at the Gene Siskel Film Center. I found ...

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The life of Anna Magnani is recounted through her films and stage work by documaker Enrico Cerasuolo in 'The Passion of Anna Magnani.' By Deborah Young Towards the end of Enrico Cerasuolo’s The ...

EXCLUSIVE: A biopic devoted to legendary Italian Rome, Open City and The Rose Tattoo actress Anna Magnani is in development at Indiana Production, the Milan and Rome-based company behind Netflix’s ...