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The Great Beauty: dreaming of an Oscar

 
  • The Great Beauty  is a 2013 movie, directed and written by Paolo Sorrentino.

 

  • The movie  was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.
 
  • On September 25, 2013 is designated as representative of the Italian cinema movie in the selection of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Film in foreign language.
 
  • On December 20, the following it is confirmed in the "shortlist" of nine selected films  for the application  and January 16, 2014 will be the candidate.
 
  • On January 12, 2014 it  won the Golden Globe for best foreign film. The last Italian film successful tenderer of the award of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was, in 1990, Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore.
 
  • On February 16, 2014 it  won the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
 
    










     
             

Kindle at increasingly affordable price!

 

The competition is good for E-reader's customers. After the launch of iPad, Amazon has dropped in June the price of its Kindle and now there are two new versions of the popular digital book from affordable cost. Lighter, more compact, with a better readability.

The two models presented by the Seattle company have an E Ink screen that promises a "50 percent better contrast than any other e-reader" and are more compact, while maintaining an area of ​​reading of about 15.2 cm in diagonal and weighing less than 250 grams.