The Great Beauty, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, is obviously an homage to Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, but it’s a sequel, of sorts. In the Fellini film, ...

I watched an Italian film last night, The Great Beauty, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2014.That’s two and a half hours I’ll never get back. The trailer was beautiful, and the ...

Paolo Sorrentino's "La Grazia," a love story that re-teams the Oscar-winning director with "The Great Beauty" actor Toni ...

The Great Beauty is a theme and variation in two keys, the major being the sacred (or spirituality), and the minor being the profane (or sensuality)—and so are all of Fellini’s films.

If you’re looking for a fun night out, Italy’s hottest movie is “The Great Beauty.” It has everything: a 104-year-old nun who eats only roots. A 40-something stripper whose boss is her dad ...

“The Great Beauty” is now playing at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York, and opens Nov. 22 in Los Angeles, with a national rollout to follow. By Andrew O'Hehir.

As its name promises, “The Great Beauty” is drop-dead gorgeous, a film that is stunningly cinematic. But more than intoxicating imagery is on director Paolo Sorrentino’s mind. One of Italy ...

The Oscar-nominated "The Great Beauty" is not only a grand homage to Italian film director Federico Fellini and his masterpiece "La Dolce Vita" (1960), it is a complete reboot and update of ...

It is, perhaps, impossible to make an ode to Rome without invoking Fellini. Though Paolo Sorrentino does so only indirectly in “The Great Beauty,” it's impossible not to think of how he pales ...

Visually and aurally charged with a diverse collage of modern Rome’s splendor from the ancient ruins to the nightclubs, “The Great Beauty” relates the common story of man’s search for meaning with an ...