Leo Kirch, who built one of the biggest German media empires from scratch before losing it all in a bankruptcy, died on Thursday in Munich. He was 84. A statement by his family did not disclose the cause of his death, but Mr. Kirch had suffered from diabetes for years. At the height of his success in the late 1990s, Mr. Kirch headed Germany's...
''My husband makes movies,'' sings Marion Cotillard, with upswept Audrey Hepburn hair and an air of resignation. We'll have to take her word for it, since the husband in question -- played in a whirl of smoking, shrugging and bravura suit wearing by Daniel Day-Lewis -- seems to be busily doing everything but that. His name is Guido, and while his...

IT is a truism that artists in their last years confront the waning of their powers and undertake the work of valediction. Prospero, drowning his book of spells at the end of ''The Tempest,'' is understood to be a stand-in for Shakespeare, whose own magic ceases with the close of his final play. More generally Shakespeare's old magician is taken as...
Federico Fellini (20. januar 1920 i Rimini - 31. oktober 1993 i Rom) var en italiensk filminstruktør. Kendt for filmen La dolce vita (Det søde liv) (1960), hvor den barmfagre Anita Ekberg blev verdenskendt, da hun badede i Trevi-fontænen i Rom.
Stilitisk set udviklede hans film sig fra en stram neorealistisk stil i 50'erne (han havde tidligere arbejdet med manuskripter til nogle af Roberto Rossellini's film) over imod en mere fantasi-præget, surrealistisk stil, som han blev ved fra 60'erne og frem til sin død.