Rossellini

[raw-suh-lee-nee, ros-uh-, raws-sel-lee-nee]

noun

1. Roberto 1906–77, Italian motion-picture director.

Rossellini

/ rɒsəˈliːnɪ /

noun

1. Roberto . 1906–77, Italian film director. His films include Rome, Open City (1945), Paisà (1946), and L'Amore (1948)

Example Sentences

The cash-strapped Rossellini stuffs free snacks into his pockets.

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Viewers longing to know more about his private life must settle for subtext — former partner Isabella Rossellini mentions that he used to destroy rooms in their home and was shocked when he saw himself after a friend filmed him doing it — and the films.

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Peering into such dark interludes as the time the director of “Taxi Driver” and many other great films nearly died from a cocaine overdose in the 1970s and his tantrums when married to Isabella Rossellini just after that, the series draws intriguing links between the man’s psychological makeup and his films.

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But how can you compare her work to Rossellini’s eight-minute turn in “Conclave”? You can’t.

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Isabella Rossellini is nominated for an eight-minute performance in Conclave, but that isn't the shortest in Oscars history.

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