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28 October 2009 6:15 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Barring some epic year-end bombshell, Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" is sure to walk away with the designation of year's most provocative movie -- with its sadomasochistic sex, penis smashing and spontaneous clitorectomy, it rivals Nagisa Oshima's 1976 cinema scandal "In the Realm of the Senses" in its efforts to shock and offend.

It's a useful comparison. Over the years, international art cinema has often been inextricably tied to our most prurient desires. In the 1960s, foreign masterpieces were as much about championing auteurs as glimpsing a choice piece of European ass. Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" was marketed with blonde bombshell Anita Ekberg dancing around in Dionysian ecstasy, while Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt" and Luis Bunuel's "Belle De Jour" were literally sold off the naked backsides of Bridget Bardot and Catherine Deneueve. But do such depictions of outré sex still sell challenging foreign cinema today?

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19 July 2009 7:26 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Veteran actress and former model Anita Ekberg has been hospitalised in Italy.

The Swedish-born La Dolce Vita star checked into the San Giovanni hospital in Rome, according to a medical official in the neurosurgery department.

Ekberg, 77, reportedly fell ill at home and is under observation at the facility.

No further information was available as WENN went to press. »

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3 April 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- The Tarantinos, the Hanekes and the von Triers will be sharing the limelight at the Cannes Film Festival next month along with great masters Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. Cannes will be host to Images From The Playground -- a new compilation film containing unique and never before seen material from nine of Ingmar Bergman's behind-the-screen films, from Sawdust and Tinsel to Persona, and today comes word that the fest will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Federico Fellini's "La dolce vita" with the world premiere of "Noi che abbiamo fatto 'La dolce vita' " (We Who Made "La dolce vita"). One of my most beloved scenes in the history of film is when Anita Ekberg decides to walk into the fountain.  The documentary is about the making the film, and is directed by Assistant Director at the time in Gianfranco Mingozzi. The picture was conceived by Fellini »

3 articles from 2009