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The Great Beauty
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. From TMDB
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The Great Beauty is a 2013 drama film, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Toni Servillo, Sabrina Ferilli and Carlo Buccirosso.
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60 of 60 · most liked firstTonight’s movie: “The Great Beauty” (2013), directed by Paolo Sorrentino youtu.be/Dyt430YkQn0
neutral · AI labelView post →Pleased to write abt the beaut costuming of Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 for @lwlies.com, in a series on Italian screen style. On 4th & 5th July, join us at Regents Street Cinema. We'll be screening Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty &then Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Eclisse: lwlies.com/partnership/...
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Best Movie I Watched Today: "The Great Beauty" (2013) Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatched 'The Great Beauty' (La Grande Bellezza) for I think the third time. It's so beautiful, if you haven't seen it please watch, and if you have, tell me all about it here, please. This is a portrait drawing of Annaluisa Capasa portraying an old love interest of the main character's
positive · AI labelView post →Sort of like THE GREAT BEAUTY meets OPPENHEIMER. Another film that understands that electronic music throbbing away in a nightclub can be one of the most sinister things in the world. Featuring a supporting performance by the Polynesian Benicio Del Toro.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m finally really using Letterboxd, slowly logging what I’ve seen. I mainly rate movies against what they’re trying to be. So I feel fine giving 5 stars to The Other Guys (the Ferrell comedy), Inglourious Basterds (my fav Tarantino), and The Great Beauty (my fav film) Let’s hang! boxd.it/bMMAn
positive · AI labelView post →Youth is probably his worst film. Anything with Toni Servillo in (including the latest, La Grazia) is terrific. Maybe start with his most Felliniesque movie, The Great Beauty.
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film is The Great Beauty. I’m a sucker for spy thrillers, especially anything based on Le Carré. I think When Harry Met Sally is the best Rom-Com of all time; Breaking Away is the best sports film of all time; and Michael Clayton is the best George Clooney film of all time.
positive · AI labelView post →“The film lacks the hyperbole of The Great Beauty, the pathos of Youth (2015), or the tenderness of The Hand of God… But the images – the images! – are strange, gorgeous, aching things” Catherine Wheatley reviews Parthenope, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
neutral · AI labelView post →Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty is an exploration of art and partying. It's performance all the way down, guiding us through each circle.
neutral · AI labelView post →In hailing distance of hedonistic satires like THE GREAT BEAUTY but with a sharper political edge, Nadav Lapid's excoriating comedy YES is definitely the movie of the moment. Here's my review. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
neutral · AI labelView post →This is used so well in the film The Great Beauty - that scene always makes me well up
neutral · AI labelView post →Maybe I need to watch The Great Beauty again (upper class in Rome). The film was available from my library’s streaming service and is overwhelmingly wonderful. Here’s just the opening scene: youtu.be/NdOZHGItkhk?...
positive · AI labelView post →La Grande Belleza (The Great Beauty) (2013) Another of the great Rome movies, this won the best International Film Oscar for its year. A writer re-evaluates his life when he turns 65, which director Paolo Sorrentino turns into a feast for most of the senses. I was a big fan of this. #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched 'Devil Wears Prada 2'. My ice cold take is that the film-makers are cowards. They should just have done what they clearly wanted to do: get Hathaway, Streep, Blunt and Tucci to take a load of mushrooms and remake 'The Great Beauty'.
neutral · AI labelView post →lol. That’s a great movie. It’s Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty
neutral · AI labelView post →...its qualification is determined by its late French release, then that gets complicated. 2014 ceremony would have it up against THE GREAT BEAUTY (another film people turned against). A tight race it probably just loses. 2015 has it up against IDA. Unlikely to top that a year late. 2/2
neutral · AI labelView post →The Great Beauty was a huge foreign film hit in 2007, it definitely created him a generation of fans. Well worth seeing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Paolo Sorrentino Opens Up About How ‘Movies Saved My Sad Life’ Ahead of Venice Premiere of ‘La Grazia’ Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (“The Great Beauty”) is readying the world premiere of his latest film, “La Grazia,” which will compete for the Golden Lion at this m… #media #news
neutral · AI labelView post →I mostly listened to these in my youth, so: - Purple Rain (a quasi-cheat, but obviously #1 of any decade) - Pretty Woman - Beverly Hills Cop - Top Gun - Footloose - Flashdance - Any John Hughes teen movie For more recent movies, just The Great Beauty.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm glad you laughed but I meant it though 😂 anyway, on Letterboxd you're allowed to make a "Mt. Rushmore" list for movies attached to your profile (4 favorites) and for me those are Vanilla Sky, Net Games, The Ramen Girl and The Great Beauty. I want to make a movie group chat one day. 😊
positive · AI labelView post →Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty is my favorite film of all time. He’s so good at satirizing and needling ego and superficiality
positive · AI labelView post →Haven’t a clue 😂😂😂.. I don’t rate movies best and worst .. I do like Wings Of Desire by Wim Wenders and I loved the film The Great Beauty which I thought was very poignant
positive · AI labelView post →Hell, thats literally a core theme of one of my favorite films, literally titled "The Great Beauty" (Sorrentino, 2013). Great companion film to La Dolce Vita (1960) and many other of Fellini's later films.
neutral · AI labelView post →There’s a scene about half way through the film The Great Beauty that uses Arvo Pärt’s version and it’s so beautiful and melancholy- always makes me well up
neutral · AI labelView post →3. Parthenope “The film lacks the hyperbole of The Great Beauty, the pathos of Youth (2015), or the tenderness of The Hand of God… But the images – the images! – are strange, gorgeous, aching things” Catherine Wheatley reviews www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s film viewing, Sorrentino's 2013 offering; The Great Beauty. www.theguardian.com/film/2013/se...
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite overall genres are horror and thriller (big fan of Stephen King adaptations, love Silence of the Lambs, etc.). I love a good spy story, too (including just about any le Carré adaptation). But my fav film is Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty and has been since I saw it in theaters.
positive · AI labelView post →@4paws-10toes.bsky.social Here's another film with a superb film score: The Great Beauty Director Paolo Sorrentino Italy 2013
neutral · AI labelView post →Put some furniture together while watching The Great Beauty today. How is that movie so perfect on the problems of aging and realizing what matters? And, beautiful.
positive · AI labelView post →Parthenope didn't really work for me, but the film is undeniably gorgeous to look at! On a Paolo Sorrentino note, if you haven't already seen them, The Great Beauty (2013) & The Consequences of Love (2004) are both worth a look.
neutral · AI labelView post →Seeing Parthenope this afternoon - Sorrentino has been a weirdly large influence in my film life. Saw The Great Beauty just after it won the Oscar and that moved the needle for me and I'm on the IMDB review page for Hand Of God. Italian football might not do it for me anymore, but it's cinema does
neutral · AI labelView post →The last screening was "The Great Beauty", and I remember hearing your praise about the movie in one of the first episodes of the podcast I listened to, I think 362, and I want to take the chance to thank you for all the years of great discussions about movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →#PARTHENOPE - now in Australian cinemas - has scattered moments of brilliance and the type of visual elegance we have come to expect from filmmaker #PaoloSorrentino (The Great Beauty), but his latest #film's beauty outshines its substance. Our #review...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Great Beauty is honestly an artistically beautiful movie that really made me feel so invested into its exploration of Rome that gave me new perspectives about what it really meant with it's art and history, especially with Jep wanting to discover his own sense of passion to lead him forward.
positive · AI labelView post →Sebastian Koch, Toni Servillo Set for Oscar Winner Gabriele Salvatores’ Chess-World Noir ‘The Lüneburg Variation’ (EXCLUSIVE) Sebastian Koch, star of Oscar-winning German film “The Lives of Others,” and Toni Servillo, protagonist of Italy’s Oscar winner “The Great Beauty,” are set to … #media #news
neutral · AI labelView post →Which reminds me of this Arvo Part song from the movie, The Great Beauty. Listen for the "roe" reference: La Grande Bellezza (colonna sonora) - "My Heart's in the Highlands" [The Great Beauty] www.youtube.com/watch?v=yya9...
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) The Great Beauty 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$7.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 7.8 Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Carlo Buccirosso, Luca Marinelli, Serena Grandi, Vernon Dobtcheff»
neutral · AI labelView post →Btw re Rome recommendations: if time, by all means see Paolo Sorrentino’s gorgeous film The Great Beauty—so many scenes strolling through the city, seeing deeply. youtu.be/d5fT3vaJE5k
positive · AI labelView post →I think it’s quite a testament to the performance from Toni Servillo here that he managed to turn a character that I pretty much despised at the start into one I almost pitied at the end. “Jep” is the literary equivalent of the one-hit wonder, but since writing the “Human Apparatus”, he has successfully sailed through his life in Rome until now, with his sixty-fifth birthday looming, he involuntarily begins to challenge the shallowness of his own existence. Sure, he has had the best of wine,…
positive · AI labelView post →😝 I passed out after 15 mins, but that was no judgement on the film, which was already above The Great Beauty and The Hand Of God. But I would say to him: either have juxtapositional/associative editing or dolly the camera around a bunch, but don’t do both - it looks messy.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieTrailer This trailer is for one my all-time favorite films, "The Great Beauty" #Film www.youtube.com/watch?v=koxR...
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) The Great Beauty 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$7.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 7.8 Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Carlo Buccirosso, Luca Marinelli, Serena Grandi, Vernon Dobtcheff»
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★½ review of The Great Beauty (2013) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/d0aXAh
positive · AI labelView post →The (movie) The Great Beauty (HD/HDX) (Vudu) (US) for $9.99 Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Carlo Buccirosso, Luca Marinelli, Serena Grandi, Vernon Dobtcheff» Genre: (Drama) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_great_...
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Drama Movies Released on November 15! What's your fave? 1. Children of Paradise 2. Ford v Ferrari 3. The Great Beauty 4. Nebraska Check out all 60 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Drama
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 Top 4 Movies Released on November 15! What's your fave? 1. Children of Paradise (1946) 2. Ford v Ferrari (2019) 3. The Great Beauty (2013) 4. Nebraska (2013) 60 movies released today! Check them out at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film
neutral · AI labelView post →The Great Beauty is a truly fantastic film. I recommend watching it with The English Subtitles on, unless your Italian is very advanced. Plus The English Subtitles are better than the dubbed versions.
positive · AI labelView post →This film is quite beautiful, but I'm not sure if I enjoyed it beyond the visuals. Bummerrr. I was blown away by The Great Beauty and Youth. Will still look out for anything Sorrentino puts out. #Parthenope #PaoloSorrentino #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose 50 non-English language films from world cinema that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 film per day for 50 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs & imdB link: Day 46. The Great Beauty 2013 Italy #movies #thegreatbeautymovie m.imdb.com/title/tt2358...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Great Beauty (2013) www.imdb.com/title/tt2358... #film
neutral · AI labelView post →"I don't consider myself obsessed with beauty". "Medusa" talked to Paolo Sorrentino about his new dedication to Naples, "Partenope". The movie should appeal to fans of "The Great Beauty" and "Youth"
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's a chance to win a double pass to PARTHENOPE, the new film from Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty). Parthenope is in cinemas Boxing Day
neutral · AI labelView post →music.apple.com/us/album/the... Mood today, from my favorite movie, "The Great Beauty"
neutral · AI labelView post →TCM @tcmtv.bsky.social is presenting Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty” overnight beginning at 2:15 a.m. ET. I kid you not when I say this film changed my life. youtu.be/Dyt430YkQn0?...
positive · AI labelView post →Another hot take: Jep's birthday party in The Great Beauty (2013) is a better example of how to shoot music in film than the majority of 21st century musicals have shown in 2 and a half hours. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q72s...
positive · AI labelView post →Spirited Away - Presented by Ottawa Architecture Week on Mon Sep 30 at 9:30pm! Academy Awards: Best Animated Feature award winner! 5 Stars! (Guardian) Double-Bill with The Great Beauty at 6:30pm! Please RSVP for your free tickets for one or both movies! mayfairtheatre.ca/movie/spirit...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Great Beauty - Presented by Ottawa Architecture Week on Mon Sep 30 at 6:30pm! Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film award winner! 5 Stars! (CineVue) Double-Bill with Spirited Away at 9:30pm! Please RSVP for your free tickets for one or both movies! mayfairtheatre.ca/movie/the-gr...
neutral · AI labelView post →Jep Gambardella: "The trains at our parties are the best in Rome. They're the best cause they go nowhere. ......................... This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It's all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. Silence and sentiment. Emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the…
positive · AI labelView post →Mesmerizing movie staging a decadent and beautiful Rome for a decadent character and greatly played by Toni Servillo. Great cast, nice decadent story and, overally, huge directing by Paolo Sorrentino.
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