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25 July 2008 12:44 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Italy used to be beautiful, sunny, friendly, delicious. Today it is beauti ful, sunny, friendly, delicious - and expensive.

Figuring Us currency, an opera ticket to "La Boheme" in Milan - $800. Dinner for four at Harry's Bar in Venice - house wine, main dish pasta, not all had an appetizer, not all had dessert, not all had wine - $850. It's the home of the $80 hamburger. Look to maybe grab a cheap $100-per-person meal, and your waiter could ask: "You want that on bread or a croissant?" Gasoline, give or take a euro, about eight bucks a gallon. I say "about" because, crossing Switzerland's border,

By CINDY ADAMS

29 April 2008 9:02 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

In 1955, director Juan Antonio Bardem attended a symposium called the Salamanca Congress that gathered filmmakers from varied political persuasions to discuss the pitiful state of Spanish cinema under the Franco regime. His statement didn't mince words: "After 60 years of filmmaking, Spanish cinema is politically ineffective, socially false, intellectually worthless, aesthetically nonexistent, and industrially crippled." His solution was to lead by example. Bardem's loaded melodrama Death Of A Cyclist closely resembles Luchino Visconti's neo-realist Ossessione in that it imports the language and genre from another country—in Visconti's case, James M. Cain's classic noir The Postman Always Rings Twice—and uses it to nudge its national cinema in a different direction. For his part, Bardem combines Alfred Hitchcock's visual elegance and suspense with the class-consciousness of neo-realism, and the new equation lets him smuggle across some subversive ideas. Death Of A Cyclist opens with the eponymous incident, as a.

Scott Tobias

2 articles from 2008