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

Description: To Each His Own Dolce Vita by John Francis Lane, Paul Sutton This new edition of Lanes memoirs adds almost half a million words, restores dozens of adventures, and includes references to more than 1200 films from Bicycle Thieves to Steve Reeves, from La Dolce Vita to Fellinis Roma, a film that ends with John Francis Lane toasting the end of the world with Gore Vidal. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Taylors 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 OSelznick, 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 Pasolinis street boys, causes a riot, and finds it impossible to resist a man in uniform. This new edition of John Francis Lanes memoirs adds more than a third of a million words, restores dozens of adventures, and includes references to more than a thousand films as he observes from the inside the rise and fall of the Golden Age of Italian Cinema, from Bicycle Thieves to Steve Reeves, from Mondo Cane to Spaghetti Westerns, from La Dolce Vita to Fellinis Roma, a film that ends with John Francis Lane toasting the end of the world with Gore Vidal. Review "Astonishing... rich... vivid." Times Literary Supplement Details ISBN199972318X Pages 540 Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 199972318X ISBN-13 9781999723187 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-06-21 Author Paul Sutton Publisher Camera Journal UK Release Date 2020-06-21 Imprint Camera Journal Subtitle in the Golden Age of Italian Cinema 1948-1972 Edited by Paul Sutton Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:128109602;

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