With a Sophia Loren Retrospective on Tap, New Yorkers Have 13 Reasons To Get to Film at Lincoln Center

For those who don’t know, ‘Sophia Loren: La Signora di Napoli’ should show that the actress’s appeal can’t be contained within the purview of anything so mundane as human initiative.

Via Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà
Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren In 'Too Bad She's Bad' (1954). Via Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà

Among the Sophia Loren films not included in “Sophia Loren: La Signora di Napoli,” a 13-film retrospective mounted by Film at Lincoln Center, is Melville Shavelson’s “Houseboat” (1958). The curatorial team responsible for this series — its members include Florence Almozini and Tyler Wilson from the host institution and their colleagues at Cinecittà, Paola Ruggiero, Camilla Cormanni, and Marco Cicala — have done well in their choices, with pictures culled from a period covering a whopping 66 years. Still, there’s a reason they didn’t pick “Houseboat.”

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