Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita of $250,000 and multiple celebrity cameos. In 2007 at the GayVN's in San Francisco, it won all 14 awards it was nominated for, including best picture, best director (Michael Lucas & Tony DiMarco), best threesome (Michael Lucas, Derrick Hanson, and Jason Ridge), best actor (Michael Lucas) and best non-sexual performance (Savanna Samson). Lucas Entertainment, Inc., its distribution wing and Michael Lucas were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by International Media Films, Inc. in February 2007. The suit alleges willful trademark and copyright infringement against the "La Dolce Vita" mark. International Media Films owns the rights to Fellini's "La
La Vita Nuova Beatrice at Ponte Santa Trinita" (1883) is inspired by "La Vita Nuova", as was Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Salutation of Beatrice" (1859). Rossetti translated the work into English in 1848 and used the character name "Mona Vanna" from it as a title for his 1866 painting "Monna Vanna". "La vita nuova" is a 1902 cantata based on the text by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Vladimir Martynov's 2003 opera "Vita Nuova" premiered in the U.S. on February 28, 2009 at the Alice Tully Hall, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. On p. 99 of D. M. Thomas's "The White