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Blasco Giurato
Blasco Giurato (7 June 1941 – 26 December 2022) was an Italian cinematographer. Born in Rome, Giurato was the brother of journalist Luca Giurato and of singer-songwriter Flavio Giurato. He was nominated to the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for Giuseppe Tornatore's ''Cinema Paradiso''. In 1993, he won the Globo d'oro for the cinematography of Tornatore's ''A Pure Formality''. In 1997, he was nominated for the David di Donatello for Best Cinematography for his work in Maurizio Zaccaro's '' The Game Bag''. Selected filmography * ''La Orca'' (1976) * ''Oedipus Orca'' (1976) * '' A Spiral of Mist'' (1977) * ''Escape from the Bronx'' (1983) * '' Sapore di mare 2 - Un anno dopo'' (1983) * '' Il camorrista'' (1986) * ''Teresa'' (1987) * ''Cinema Paradiso'' (1988) * ''Sinbad of the Seven Seas'' (1989) * '' Time to Kill'' (1989) * '' I'll Be Going Now'' (1990) * '' Everybody's Fine'' (1990) * '' Year of the Gun'' (1991) * '' Amami'' (1993) * ''A Pure Formality'' (1993) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Orca
''Prisoner of Passion'' ( it, La Orca) is an Italian film directed by Eriprando Visconti. The film was followed with the sequel ''Oedipus Orca''. Cast *Michele Placido: Michele *Rena Niehaus: Alice *Carmen Scarpitta: Irene, Alice's mother *Lisa Morpurgo: Elisa *Flavio Bucci: Gino *Bruno Corazzari: Paolo Production In reference to the scene in which Rena Niehaus has her vagina fingered explicitly by Michele Placido, the actress said she was not clear what the scene would be like because she couldn't speak Italian. Reception From a contemporary review, David Badder wrote in the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' that the film was "slowly paced and directed with no commitment to character or theme, it is difficult to detect any compelling motive behind ''Prisoner of Passion''." Badder continued that "the sex scenes remain wholly unerotic because their premise, that Alice uses her worldliness to overcome and then exploit the innocent peasant, is insufficiently defined." References Sources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amami (film)
''Amami'' (literally ''Love me'', also known as ''Daddy Don't Blush'') is a 1993 Italian comedy film directed by Bruno Colella. Plot Tullio Venturini, a retired widower, has a daughter, Anna, who is an actress. However, he is the only one not to know that she works in the industry of porn. When he turns out the truth goes in full crisis. The daughter will be able to rebuild her relationship with him as to make him participate in a biopic about her career as a hard diva. Cast *Moana Pozzi as Anna Venturini *Novello Novelli as Tullio Venturini * as Mary *Tony Esposito as Marco *Flavio Bucci as Pagani *Bruno Colella *Victor Cavallo *Eugenio Bennato * Carlo Buccirosso *Carlo Monni *Jeff Blynn *Massimo Ceccherini See also * List of Italian films of 1993 A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of The Gun (film)
''Year of the Gun'' is a 1991 American thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Andrew McCarthy, Sharon Stone and Valeria Golino. Plot In 1978, David Raybourne is an American novelist who lives in Rome and works as a journalist in a small English-language newspaper. He is romantically involved with Lia, the estranged wife of an Italian Industrialist, and befriended by Italo Bianchi, a politically left-leaning lecturer at a Rome university. The story happens against the backdrop of politically charged atmosphere and student unrest, in which the infamous Red Brigades commit their spate of violent attacks which rocked northern Italy in the 1970s, culminating in the kidnapping and later murder of Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister. As part of a plan to write a commercial novel and raise money to marry and support Lia in the style to which she is accustomed, Raybourne researches the activities and organization of the Red Brigades. He writes the draft of a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everybody's Fine (1990 Film)
''Everybody's Fine'' ( it, Stanno tutti bene) is a 1990 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore who co-wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra and Massimo De Rita. It won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Giuseppe Tornatore) and was nominated for Golden Palm (Giuseppe Tornatore) at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. It also won the David di Donatello Awards for David Best Music ( Ennio Morricone) and the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists for Silver Ribbon Best Original Story (Giuseppe Tornatore). The film was remade in 2009 as '' Everybody's Fine'' with an American setting and starring Robert De Niro, and again in 2016 in China also as '' Everybody's Fine'' in 2016. Plot Matteo Scuro, a retired Sicilian bureaucrat and opera buff, has been stood up by his five adult children during the summer vacation, all of whom live in various cities on the Italian mainland with what he believes are responsible jobs. Despite their not visiting and the neighbours' criti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'll Be Going Now
''Tolgo il disturbo'', internationally released as ''I'll Be Going Now'', is a 1990 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Dino Risi.Paolo D'Agostini, ''Dino Risi'', Editrice Il castoro, 1995 Plot Augusto Scribani is an old retired, cultured and genteel, who comes to Rome to visit his children and his granddaughter Rosa. The child and Augusto soon become attached to time, causing the anger and jealousy of parents. In fact, the couple are two business people and do not care much to small, and so Augusto shows his disappointment. The old man so completely quarrels with his son, and is out of the house, while the little Carla droops in pain. Cast * Vittorio Gassman: Augusto Scribani * Elliott Gould: Alcide * Dominique Sanda: Carla * Eva Grimaldi: Ines * Firmine Richard: Anita * Monica Scattini Monica Scattini (1 February 1956 – 4 February 2015) was an Italian actress. Films Scattini appeared in include ''Maniaci sentimentali'', for which she won a David di Donat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time To Kill (1989 Film)
''Time to Kill'' ( it, Tempo di uccidere) is a 1989 Italian drama film starring Nicolas Cage, and Italian actors Ricky Tognazzi and Giancarlo Giannini. It is directed by Giuliano Montaldo. The film is set in 1936, when Ethiopia was under Italian invasion, and was filmed in Zimbabwe. It is based on the novel with the same name written by Ennio Flaiano. Plot Lieutenant Silvestri suffers a toothache and decides to reach the nearest camp hospital earlier. En route to the camp his vehicle has an accident, and stops near a rock. Silvestri continues by walking, but no physician is found at the construction site. He is directed by a young man on an allegedly shorter route to the main camp, and on his way through the jungle he meets and rapes a young Ethiopian woman. She stays with him afterwards and he gives her his watch as a present. While taking refuge in a cave Silvestri shoots at a hyena, but the bullet ricochets and hits the woman. He buries her, trying to hide all traces, observin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinbad Of The Seven Seas
''Sinbad of the Seven Seas'' is a 1989 Italian fantasy film produced and directed by Enzo G. Castellari from a story by Luigi Cozzi, revolving around the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor. Sinbad must recover five magical stones to free the city of Basra from the evil spell cast by a wizard, which his journey takes him to mysterious islands and he must battle magical creatures in order to save the world. Plot The film is narrated by a mother who tells her daughter a bedtime story from a large book: In the city of Basra, the evil vizier Jaffar has clouded the caliph's mind and imprisoned his daughter, Princess Alina in order to marry her. Jaffar has four of the town's five sacred gems sent to dangerous and evil places where they will be carefully guarded by magical forces. Sinbad and his crew arrive at the caliph's palace, only to be captured by the hypnotised soldiers. Jaffar sentences Sinbad's crew to the torture chamber while the mighty sailor is to be locked in a pit full of sn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa (1987 Film)
''Teresa'' is a 1987 Italian comedy film written and directed by Dino Risi, that stars Serena Grandi and Luca Barbareschi. It tells the story of Teresa, an attractive young widow who works as a lorry driver to pay off her husband's debts. Plot In the Italian province of Romagna, Teresa drives a lorry with her older husband Stallino, who dies. She discovers that he owed 80 million lire to Nabucco, a local entrepreneur, who now wants to marry her. She persuades Nabucco to let her work until Ferragosto next year when, if she has not earned enough to repay him, she will marry him. Having no affection for Nabucco, she takes whatever jobs she can get and as co-driver hires Gino, a happy-go-lucky young man to whom she is attracted. As he has no money and she must work, marriage is out of the question and their relationship is often stormy. She collects a load of beer from a brewery in Germany where the owner, a baron, wants to marry her but Gino rescues her from this fate. She collects a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapore Di Mare 2 - Un Anno Dopo
''Sapore di mare 2 - Un anno dopo'' is a 1983 Italian teen romantic comedy film directed by Bruno Cortini. It is the sequel of ''Time for Loving''. Cast * Massimo Ciavarro: Fulvio Comanducci * Isabella Ferrari: Selvaggia * Eleonora Giorgi: Tea * Mauro Di Francesco: Uberto Colombo * Angelo Cannavacciuolo: Paolo Pinardi * Karina Huff: Susan * Gianni Ansaldi: Gianni * Giorgia Fiorio: Giorgia * Ugo Bologna: Carraro * Gianfranco Barra Gianfranco Barra (born 5 April 1940) is an Italian film, television and stage actor. He has appeared in more than 80 films. Born in Rome, Barra studied at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts in his hometown. First active on stage, he m ...: Antonio Pinardi References External links * 1983 films Italian romantic comedy films 1980s Italian-language films 1983 romantic comedy films Films set in the 1960s 1980s Italian films {{1980s-romantic-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
