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Barbara Cupisti
Barbara Cupisti is an Italian award-winning documentary director with a long career as film actress. As an actress, she is well known outside of her native country by horror fans, who will most likely recognize her from her films with director Michele Soavi and Dario Argento. As a director, she is considered one of the most talented female directors of documentaries in the world. Mostly focused on human rights, she said that "her goal is to "give voice "to the people who don't have the opportunity to speak". Career as actress Cupisti started her career as a dancer with the Luis Falco company. She specialized in action movies and became famous in France for her role in the very popular TV "feuilleton" '' Chateauvallon''. She speaks Italian, English, French, Spanish and Esperanto. Career as director Since 2002 she started to direct for Rai Cinema. Her first documentary movie ''Mothers'' (90 min), produced by the Italian RaiCinema and shown in Venice Film Festival 2007, won t ...
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Viareggio
Viareggio () is a city and ''comune'' in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. With a population of over 62,000, it is the second largest city within the province of Lucca, after Lucca. It is known as a seaside resort as well as being the home of the famous carnival of Viareggio (dating back to 1873), and its papier-mâché floats, which (since 1925), parade along the promenade known as "Passeggiata a mare", in the weeks of Carnival. The symbol of the carnival of Viareggio and its official mask is Burlamacco, designed and invented by Uberto Bonetti in 1930. The city traces its roots back to the first half of the 16th century when it became the only gate to the sea for the Republic of Lucca. The oldest building in Viareggio, known as Torre Matilde, dates back to this time and was built by the Lucchesi in 1541 as a defensive fortification to fight the constant menace of corsair incursions. Viareggio is also an active industrial and manufacturing centre; ...
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Premio Ilaria Alpi
The and its twin the are sedans sold in Japan from 2001 to 2021 by Toyota. The sedans are designated as a compact car by Japanese dimension regulations and the exterior dimensions do not change with periodic updates. Unlike Toyota's other vehicles, the Premio and Allion are not exported, and are exclusively sold in Japan only. Size and pricing-wise, the E210 Corolla, introduced to the Japanese market in 2018 succeeds the Premio and Allion. The Premio is the successor of the Corona which first appeared in 1957. The Corona EXiV, a four-door hardtop sedan that appeared in 1989, was replaced by the Progrès, which was also briefly available with the Premio until 2007. The Premio is exclusive to ''Toyopet Store'' dealerships, as a smaller companion to the Mark X. The Allion replaced the Carina, a model that first appeared in 1970. The Carina ED, a four-door hardtop sedan that appeared in 1985, was replaced by the Brevis, which was briefly available with the Allion until 200 ...
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Denti
'' Denti'' (''Teeth'') is a 2000 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. It is based on the novel with the same name written by Domenico Starnone. It entered the competition at the 57th Venice International Film Festival. Plot Antonio has always had problems with his incisors: enormous and therefore embarrassing. During a quarrel Mara, the woman for whom he left his wife and two children and of whom he is extremely jealous, throws him a crystal ashtray breaking his teeth. He begins his wandering among dentists that will turn into a sort of journey in his own conscience, altered by painkillers, by quarrels with Mara and by memories and ghosts that resurface. Cast *Sergio Rubini as Antonio *Anita Caprioli as Mara *Paolo Villaggio as Dr. Cagnano *Claudio Amendola as Young Antonio *Anouk Grinberg as Mother of Antonio *Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Uncle Nino *Tom Novembre: as Micco *Angela Goodwin as Ciuta *Barbara Cupisti Barbara Cupisti is an Italian award-win ...
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Commercial Break
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Only You (1994 Film)
''Only You'' is a 1994 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., and Bonnie Hunt. Written by Diane Drake and Malia Scotch Marmo (uncredited), the film is about a young woman whose search for the man she believes to be her soulmate leads her to Italy where she meets her destiny. Upon its release the film received mixed reviews, but critics praised Tomei and Downey's performances. Plot After playing with a Ouija board with her brother Larry, 11-year-old Faith Corvatch becomes convinced that her soul mate, the man she is destined to be with, is named "Damon Bradley." This belief is strengthened when a few years later a carnival fortune-teller tells her that "Damon Bradley" is the name of the man she will marry. Fourteen years later, Faith is a teacher at a Catholic school and is engaged to a podiatrist. Ten days before the wedding, Faith learns that her fiancé's high-school classmate, Damon Bradley, is flying to Venice t ...
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Dellamorte Dellamore
''Cemetery Man'' ( it, Dellamorte Dellamore) is a 1994 Comedy horror, comedy horror film directed by Michele Soavi and starring Rupert Everett, François Hadji-Lazaro and Anna Falchi. It was produced by Tilde Corsi, Gianni Romoli and Soavi and based on the novel ''Dellamorte Dellamore'' by Tiziano Sclavi. Everett plays a beleaguered caretaker of a small Italian cemetery, who searches for love while defending himself from dead people who keep rising again. It is an international co-production between Italy, France, and Germany. Plot Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) is the cemetery caretaker in the small Italian town of Buffalora. He lives in a ramshackle house on the premises, constantly surrounded by death, with only his intellectual disability, mentally disabled assistant Gnaghi (François Hadji-Lazaro) for company. Young punks in town spread gossip that Dellamorte is Erectile dysfunction, impotent. His hobbies are reading outdated telephone directories, in which he crosses ...
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Dark Bar
''Dark Bar'' is a 1989 Italian crime drama film directed by Stelio Fiorenza (as Stanley Florency) and starring Marina Suma, Richard Hatch and Barbara Cupisti. Plot Italy, late 1980s. In a night club called "Dark Bar", where customers are used to consume drugs, a young girl is found dead. Anne, her sister, decides to find out the murderess. It seems her sister was killed because she was trying to blackmail some important person, and now they are after Anne since they think she knows something too. Cast * Marina Suma as Anna * Richard Hatch as Marco * Barbara Cupisti as Elisabeth * Alessandra Stordy as Wilma * Lea Martino as Enza * Olivia Cupisti as Lubka * James Sampson as James * Vincent Regina Release The film was released in Italy on December 12, 1989 See also * List of Italian films of 1989 A list of films produced in Italy in 1989 (see 1989 in film): Footnotes Sources * * * External links Italian films of 1989at the Internet Movie Database {{DE ...
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Il Bambino E Il Poliziotto
''Il bambino e il poliziotto'' () is a 1989 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Verdone. Plot summary The police officer Carlo Vinciguerra is investigating a drug trafficking cartel. In order to infiltrate it, he pretends to be the drug addicted nephew of acquaintance of Rosanna Clerici, and arrests her for possession during a party at her house. It appears however that the woman has a young child, with nobody else to care for him. Carlo ends up having to host the boy, until the judge will decide about his mother's request for house arrest. Carlo's professional and personal life as a bachelor is turned upside down by the need to look after the boy. In particular, his clandestine relationship with an already married colleague from work is put under severe stress. Meanwhile Rosanna hates Carlo, whom she blames to have unjustly entrapped her. She accepts his tutelage of her son, only because of fear for retaliation by the criminal circle with which she was still in touch. Indeed th ...
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La Chiesa
''The Church'' ( it, La Chiesa) is a 1989 Italian supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Michele Soavi, and produced by Dario Argento with Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori. It stars Hugh Quarshie, Tomas Arana, Barbara Cupisti, Asia Argento, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. and Giovanni Lombardo Radice. ''The Church'' was originally conceived as the third installment in the ''Dèmoni'' series, following ''Demons (1985 film), Demons'' (1985) and ''Demons 2'' (1986). Soavi insisted the film to be distant from the series, wanting it to be "sophisticated", and re-wrote the screenplay to remove any connection to the series. Filming was primarily shot in the Matthias Church in Budapest, with additional footage filmed at studio sets in Rome and in downtown Hamburg, Germany. Plot In medieval Germany, a band of Teutonic Knights massacre a village of supposed Satanism, devil-worshippers and bury their bodies underground, building a Gothic cathedral over the mass grave as a mea ...
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Opera (1987 Film)
''Opera'' (also known and released as ''Terror at the Opera'') is a 1987 Italian ''giallo'' slasher film directed and co-written by Dario Argento and starring Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, and Ian Charleson. The film's plot focuses on a young soprano (Marsillach) who becomes involved in a series of murders being committed inside an opera house by a masked assailant. The film features music composed and performed by Brian Eno, Claudio Simonetti, and Bill Wyman. Plot When Mara Cecova, the star of an avant-garde production of Verdi's ''Macbeth'' at the Parma Opera House, is injured after getting hit by a car outside the theater during an argument with the director, Cecova's young understudy, Betty, is given the role of Lady Macbeth. Despite her initial apprehension, Betty's performance proves a success. However, an anonymous figure finds his way into the opera house on the opening night, watching Betty's performance from an empty box. When a stagehand fi ...
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Aquarius
Aquarius may refer to: Astrology * Aquarius (astrology), an astrological sign * Age of Aquarius, a time period in the cycle of astrological ages Astronomy * Aquarius (constellation) * Aquarius in Chinese astronomy Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Aquarius'' (film), a 2016 Brazilian–French drama film * ''Aquarius'' (British TV series), a British arts television series * ''Aquarius'' (American TV series), an American period crime drama television series Music * ''Aquarius'' (opera), by Karel Goeyvaerts * ''Aquarius'' (Aqua album), 2000 * ''Aquarius'' (Haken album), 2010 * ''Aquarius'' (Nicole Mitchell album), 2013 * ''Aquarius'' (Tinashe album), 2014 * ''Aquarius'' (EP), by Boards of Canada, 1998 * "Aquarius" (song), a song from the 1967 musical ''Hair'' ** "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", a 5th Dimension medley of two songs, 1969 * "Aquarius", a song by Within Temptation from the 2004 album ''The Silent Force'' Other uses in arts and entertainme ...
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