Life Is Beautiful (1997) News

10/31/09 Multihyphenate funnyman Michael Herbig, who has once again taken the box office by storm with his current hit, "Vicky the Viking," will next be flexing his thespian chops in a black comedy set in the dark days of Stalin's Soviet Union.  |  Variety

10/26/09 Devils On The Doorstep takes place during what we think of as WWII, but what the characters in the movie view primarily as the Second Sino-Japanese War (which began in 1937, two years before Hitler got all grabby and genocidal).  |  The A.V. Club

09/29/09 Giuseppe Tornatore's epic coming-of-age story "Baaria" has been selected as Italy's hopeful for a 2010 foreign language Oscar nomination, the Italian cinema and audiovisual association Anica said Tuesday.  |  The Hollywood Reporter

08/19/09 Moviefone One of the things I ask myself is: why wasn't Jeff Bridges nominated for Best Actor for The Big Lebowski ?  |  Cinematical.com

05/24/09 Roberto Benigni broke defiantly into the American mainstream like few foreign filmmakers before or since with 1997's Life Is Beautiful .  |  The A.V. Club

05/12/09 Endemol chief operating officer Marco Bassetti has rescinded his bid to buy the film library of Vittorio Cecchi Gori, in a move that could allow Italy's once mighty movie mogul to hold on to one of his key assets.  |  Variety