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Brunello Rondi
Brunello Rondi (26 November 1924 – 7 November 1989) was a prolific Italian screen writer and film director best known for his frequent script collaborations with Federico Fellini. His brother, Gian Luigi Rondi, was an Italian film critic. Biography Noted chiefly as a script-writer and script consultant, Rondi began his film career with the script for 1947's '' Last Love'' for which he was also assistant director. He worked as assistant director as well as an uncredited writer on ''The Flowers of St. Francis'' (1950) by Roberto Rossellini and was a credited writer on Rossellini's ''Europa '51'' (1952). He started to work with Federico Fellini as artistic director on ''La Strada'' (1954) and ''Nights of Cabiria'' (1957). His most prized collaborations were on the film scripts of ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960), ''8½'' (1963), ''Juliet of the Spirits'' (1964), '' Orchestra Rehearsal'' (1978), and ''City of Women'' (1980), all co-written and directed by Fellini. On the writing of ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunello Rondi
Brunello Rondi (26 November 1924 – 7 November 1989) was a prolific Italian screen writer and film director best known for his frequent script collaborations with Federico Fellini. His brother, Gian Luigi Rondi, was an Italian film critic. Biography Noted chiefly as a script-writer and script consultant, Rondi began his film career with the script for 1947's '' Last Love'' for which he was also assistant director. He worked as assistant director as well as an uncredited writer on ''The Flowers of St. Francis'' (1950) by Roberto Rossellini and was a credited writer on Rossellini's ''Europa '51'' (1952). He started to work with Federico Fellini as artistic director on ''La Strada'' (1954) and ''Nights of Cabiria'' (1957). His most prized collaborations were on the film scripts of ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960), ''8½'' (1963), ''Juliet of the Spirits'' (1964), '' Orchestra Rehearsal'' (1978), and ''City of Women'' (1980), all co-written and directed by Fellini. On the writing of ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italy, influential both as an artist and a political figure. A controversial personality due to his straightforward style, Pasolini's legacy remains contentious. Openly gay and an avowed Marxist, he voiced strong criticism of petty bourgeois values and the emerging consumerism in Italy, juxtaposing socio-political polemics with a critical examination of taboo sexual matters. A prominent protagonist of the Roman cultural scene of the post-war period, he was an established major figure in European literature and cinematic arts. Pasolini's unsolved murder at Ostia in November 1975 during an altercation with a young male prostitute prompted an outcry in Italy, and its circumstances continue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Pasquale Festa Campanile (28 July 1927 – 25 February 1986) was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist, best known as a prominent exponent of the commedia all'italiana genre. Life and career Born at Melfi, in the province of Potenza, he moved to Rome at young age. He started as a writer and literary critic. ''La nonna Sabella'', one of his novels, was later adapted by Dino Risi into the movie of the same name, internationally known as ''Oh! Sabella'' (1957). He began his cinema career as a screenwriter with ''Faddija – La legge della vendetta'' (1949) by Roberto Bianchi Montero and later co-produced masterpieces of Italian cinema such as ''Poveri ma belli'' (1957) by Risi and ''Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960) and ''The Leopard (1963 film), The Leopard'' (1963) by Luchino Visconti. His first film as a director was ''A Sentimental Attempt'' (1963), along with Massimo Franciosa. Subsequently he made many films of the commedia all'italiana genre, including '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: ''Sciuscià'' and ''Bicycle Thieves'' (honorary), while ''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'' and '' Il giardino dei Finzi Contini'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Indeed, the great critical success of ''Sciuscià'' (the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and ''Bicycle Thieves'' helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Award. These two films are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. ''Bicycle Thieves'' was deemed the greatest film of all time by ''Sight & Sound'' magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics in 1958, and was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history. De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Place For Lovers
''A Place for Lovers'' ( it, Amanti, french: Le Temps des amants) is a 1968 French-Italian romantic drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica and written by Brunello Rondi, Julian Zimet, Peter Baldwin, Ennio De Concini, Tonino Guerra and Cesare Zavattini. The film is based on the play ''Gli Amanti'' by Brunello Rondi and Renaldo Cabieri and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Faye Dunaway as a terminally ill American fashion designer in Venice, Italy who has a whirlwind affair with a race-car driver (played by Marcello Mastroianni). It is considered to be one of the worst films ever made. Plot Fashion designer Julia is tired of living because she is suffering from malignant cancer. When she leaves for her last holiday in Cortina d'Ampezzo, she meets the vital Valerio. The two fall in love instantly, but Julia does not reveal her secret to Valerio. When Valerio learns that she dying, he pretends to know nothing, continuing the love affair until the end. Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boccaccio 70
''Boccaccio '70'' is a 1962 comedy anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli and Luchino Visconti from an idea by Cesare Zavattini. It consists of four episodes, each by one of the directors, all about a different aspect of morality and love in modern times in the style of Giovanni Boccaccio. Plot ''Renzo e Luciana'' Directed by Mario Monicelli. Written by Giovanni Arpino, Italo Calvino, Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Mario Monicelli. Music by Piero Umiliani. With Marisa Solinas and Germano Giglioli. In ''Renzo e Luciana'' (''Renzo and Luciana''), a young couple tries to hide their marriage and the wife’s supposed pregnancy from the draconian rules at their place of employment, which has banned female employees from getting married and having children. Their efforts – both at their shared home (having temporarily moved into her family's crowded apartment), and at work (where they go so far as to pretend not to know each other) – causes pressure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escape By Night (1960 Film)
''Era notte a Roma'' is a 1960 Italian war film epic directed by Roberto Rossellini. In France the film is known as ''Les Évadés de la nuit'', and in the USA ''Escape by Night''. It is also known internationally as ''Blackout in Rome''. Cast *Giovanna Ralli ... Esperia Belli *Renato Salvatori ... Renato Balducci *Leo Genn ... Major Michael Pemberton (British) * Sergei Bondarchuk ... Sgt. Fyodor Nazukov (Russian) * Peter Baldwin ... Lt. Peter Bradley (American) *Paolo Stoppa ... Principe Alessandro Antoniani *Enrico Maria Salerno ... Dr. Costanzi * Hannes Messemer ... Colonel/Baron von Kleist *Sergio Fantoni ... Don Valerio *Laura Betti ... Teresa *Rosalba Neri Rosalba Neri (born 19 June 1939) is a retired Italian actress. Early life Born in Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Neri was regarded for her beauty even in youth, winning a beauty pageant when she was still young. Eventually pursuing an acting ca ... ... Erika Almagid * George Petrarca ... Tarcisio Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europa '51
''Europe '51'' ( it, Europa '51), also known as ''The Greatest Love'', is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman and Alexander Knox. The film follows an industrialist's wife who, after the death of her young son, turns towards a rigorous humanitarianism. Plot Due to a labour strike, Irene Girard, wife of American industrialist George Girard, returns late to their apartment in post-war Rome, where she is giving a dinner party for their relatives. Her young son Michel laments that she has hardly time for him, to which she replies that it's time for him to grow up and stop being over-sensitive. During dinner, the guests get involved in a debate about politics. While Irene's cousin André, a Communist who writes for a political newspaper, predicts peace for the world, a conservative friend of Irene is convinced that the world is heading straight for war. The party abruptly comes to an end when Michel falls down the building's stairs an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Blasetti
Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film ''Quattro passi fra le nuvole''. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s. Early life Blasetti was born in Rome, where he also died. After studying law at university, Blasetti chose to become a journalist and film critic. He worked for several film magazines and led a campaign for national film production, which had largely ceased by this point. In 1919 he made a brief foray into acting when he appeared as an extra in Mario Caserini's ''Tortured Soul''. Director In 1929 Blasetti made his directorial debut with ''Sun (film), Sun'', a fictional story set against the ongoing draining of the Pontine Marshes. The film was well received at a time when there were few Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altri Tempi
''In Olden Days'' ( it, Altri tempi, link=no, also known as ''Times Gone By'' and ''Infidelity'') is a 1952 Italian anthology film. Plot The cart of old books A good-natured peddler of old books shows his customers some works from the past and is pranked by the rowdy son of a newsagent. Excelsior dance Filmed reconstruction of the Excelsior Ball, an allegorical late-century dance by the composer Romualdo Marenco performed for the first time at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 11 January 1881. Less than a day Two lovers, for contingent reasons, manage to see each other in a hotel room once a year, for a few hours, but due to some quarrels and jealousies they are unable to consume their relationship. The Sardinian drummer During the first war of independence fought against the Austrians, a very young drummer, delivering an important message to the Italian command, is hit and loses a leg (episode from the book "Cuore"). Matter of interest Two peasants scramble for p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smooth Velvet, Raw Silk
''Smooth Velvet, Raw Silk'' (also known as ''Velluto nero'' and ''Black Emmanuelle, White Emmanuelle'') is a 1976 sexploitation film directed by Brunello Rondi. Despite the alternate title, and the presence of Laura Gemser, it has no relation to other ''Emanuelle'' films and doesn't feature any characters with that name. Plot Fashion model Laura and her abusive husband Carlo travel to Egypt to visit Laura's wealthy but sexually frustrated friend Crystal. Laura soon befriends Crystal's liberated daughter Pina, and falls under the spell of corrupt spiritual guru Horatio. Cast * Laura Gemser as Laura * Annie Belle as Pina * Al Cliver as Horatio * Gabriele Tinti as Carlo * Feodor Chaliapin Jr. as Hal * Ziggy Zanger as Magda * Nieves Navarro as Crystal (credited as Susan Scott) * Tarik Ali as Ali References External links *''Smooth Velvet, Raw Silk''at Variety Distribution Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company. It distributes Italian films wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Tue Mani Sul Mio Corpo
''Le tue mani sul mio corpo'' (translation: ''Your Hands on My Body''), aka ''Schocking'', is a 1970 Italian giallo film directed by Brunello Rondi. Plot A young neurotic dedicates his life to harassing others, especially his father and stepmother. Not even an encounter with a beautiful girl manages to keep him away from his world of macabre fantasies. Cast * Lino Capolicchio: Andrea * Colette Descombes: Carole * Erna Schürer: Mireille * José Quaglio: Mario * Pier Paola Bucchi: Clara, the maid * Anne Marie Braafheid: Nivel * Elena Cotta Elena Cotta (born 19 August 1931) is an Italian stage, film and television actress. Life and career Born in Milan, at a young age Cotta won a scholarship to attend the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico; after just one year ... References External links * 1970 films Giallo films Films directed by Brunello Rondi 1970s crime thriller films 1970s Italian films {{crime-thriller-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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