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Claudio Caligari
Claudio Caligari (7 February 1948 – 26 May 2015) was an Italian director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Arona, Piedmont, Caligari began his career as a documentarist, often collaborating with Franco Barbero; his first work was ''Perché droga'' (1975). He made his feature film debut in 1983, with the drug-centered drama '' Toxic Love'', which won the De Sica Award at the 40th Venice International Film Festival. Only fifteen years later he directed another work, the neo-noir ''The Scent of the Night''. He completed the editing of his third and last film, '' Non essere cattivo'', a few days before his death from a tumour. Filmography Director and Writer *''Lotte nel Belice'' (1977) *'' Toxic Love'' (''Amore tossico'') (1983) *''The Scent of the Night'' (''L'odore della notte'') (1998) *''Don't Be Bad ''Don't Be Bad'' ( it, Non essere cattivo) is a 2015 Italian drama film directed by Claudio Caligari. The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arona, Piedmont
Arona (; pms, Aron-a ; lmo, label=Western Lombard, Aruna ) is a town and ''comune'' on Lake Maggiore, in the province of Novara (northern Italy). Its main economic activity is tourism, especially from Milan, France and Germany. History Archaeological findings have shown that the area of what today is Arona was settled from the 18th–13th centuries BC. Prehistoric pile-dwellings have been found near the town and are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site. Later it was a possession of the Celts, the Romans and the Lombards. In the 11th century the Benedictine abbey of Saints Gratianus and Felinus, Martyrs, was founded. After the siege and destruction of Milan in 1162 by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, many of the exiled took refuge in Arona. Later the town was a possession of the Torriani and (from 1277) of the Visconti families. In the early 14th century, the town became a free commune under the suzerainty of the abbey. In 1439 it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toxic Love
''Toxic Love'' ( it, Amore tossico) is a 1983 Italian drama film directed by Claudio Caligari. The film depicts a realistic and graphic portrayal of the heroin addiction that afflicted many young drifters in the eighties. The cast was entirely made of amateur actors, of whom most were or had been drug addicts. The film premiered at the 40th Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the De Sica Award. It was also screened at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, in which Michela Mioni was awarded best actress. Plot Cesare, Enzo and Ciopper are a group of heroin addicts whose main occupation is to find money for their daily fix. Cesare hopes that his girlfriend, Michela, would help them but she has already bought drugs on her own from Teresa, a prostitute in Ostia, and the two have an argument. Cesare, Ciopper and Enzo eventually manage to score from a local pusher, nicknamed Dartagnan. When Michela test Teresa's heroin, and finds out that she's been ripped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
40th Venice International Film Festival
The 40th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 31 August to 11 September 1983. Jury The following people comprised the 1983 jury: * Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy) (head of jury) * Jack Clayton (UK) * Peter Handke (Austria) * Leon Hirszman (Brazil) * Márta Mészáros (Hungary) * Nagisa Oshima (Japan) * Gleb Panfilov (Soviet Union) * Bob Rafelson (USA) * Ousmane Sembene (Senegal) * Mrinal Sen (India) * Alain Tanner (Switzerland) * Agnès Varda (Belgium) Films in competition Awards *Golden Lion: **'' First Name: Carmen'' by Jean-Luc Godard * Grand Special Jury Prize: **'' Biquefarre'' by Georges Rouquier *Silver Lion: **''Sugar Cane Alley'' by Euzhan Palcy *Volpi Cup: ** Best Actor - Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein, David Alan Grier, Guy Boyd, and George Dzundza ('' Streamers'') ** Best Actress - Darling Légitimus (''Sugar Cane Alley'') *Career Golden Lion: **Michelangelo Antonioni *FIPRESCI Prize **''Fanny and Alexander'' by Ing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neo-noir
Neo-noir is a revival of film noir, a genre that had originally flourished during the post-World War II era in the United Statesroughly from 1940 to 1960. The French term, ''film noir'', translates literally to English as "black film", indicating sinister stories often presented in a shadowy cinematographic style. Neo-noir has a similar style but with updated themes, content, style, and visual elements. Definition The neologism neo-noir, using the Greek prefix for the word ''new'', is defined by Mark Conard as "any film coming after the classic noir period that contains noir themes and noir sensibility". Another definition describes it as later noir that often synthesizes diverse genres while foregrounding the scaffolding of ''film noir''. History " Film noir" was coined by critic Nino Frank in 1946 and popularized by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in 1955. The term revived in general use beginning in the 1980s, with a revival of the style. The classic ''fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scent Of The Night (film)
''The Scent of the Night'' ( it, L'odore della notte) is a 1998 Italian crime-drama film directed by Claudio Caligari. It is loosely based on the novel ''Le notti di arancia meccanica'' by Dido Sacchettoni. The film premiered at the 1998 Venice Film Festival. It was nominated for three Nastro d'Argento Awards. Cast *Valerio Mastandrea: Remo Guerra *Marco Giallini: Maurizio Leggeri *Giorgio Tirabassi: Roberto Salvo *Alessia Fugardi: Rita *Franca Scagnetti Franca Scagnetti (17 May 1924 – 1 November 1999) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in over 80 films between 1969 and 1999. She was born and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Ehi amigo, sei morto!'' (1970) - Nathaniel' ...: maid * Little Tony: himself See also * List of Italian films of 1998 References External links * 1998 films 1998 crime drama films Italian crime drama films Films directed by Claudio Caligari Films set in Rome 1990s Italian-language films 1990s Italian films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non Essere Cattivo
''Don't Be Bad'' ( it, Non essere cattivo) is a 2015 Italian drama film directed by Claudio Caligari. The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. It was the last film directed by Caligari: a few days after the end of the film editing, he died from a tumor. Plot Ostia, 1995: Vittorio and Cesare, two Roman youngsters, have known each other for a long time; their relationship is closer to being brothers than just friends. Both are dedicated to their acquaintances with various illegal activities as well as to the consumption and sale of recreational drugs, refusing the life of workers and looking for a way out from the problems of life by taking drugs. Cesare lives with his mother and niece Debora, the daughter of his sister who died due to AIDS, and who is ill herself. One evening Vittorio, after taking several pills, has a series of hallucinations and therefore decides to change his life. He fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Repubblica
''la Repubblica'' (; the Republic) is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Born as a leftist newspaper, it has since moderated to a milder centre-left political stance, and moved further to the centre after the appointment of Maurizio Molinari as editor. History Foundation ''la Repubblica'' was founded by Eugenio Scalfari, previously director of the weekly magazine ''L'Espresso''. The publisher Carlo Caracciolo and Mondadori had invested 2.3 billion lire (half each) and a break-even point was calculated at 150,000 copies. Scalfari invited a few trusted colleagues: Gianni Rocca, then Giorgio Bocca, Sandro Viola, Mario Pirani, Miriam Mafai, Barbara Spinelli, Natalia Aspesi and Giuseppe Turani. The cartoons were the prerogative of Giorgio Forattini until 1999. Early years The newspaper first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Be Bad
''Don't Be Bad'' ( it, Non essere cattivo) is a 2015 Italian drama film directed by Claudio Caligari. The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. It was the last film directed by Caligari: a few days after the end of the film editing, he died from a tumor. Plot Ostia, 1995: Vittorio and Cesare, two Roman youngsters, have known each other for a long time; their relationship is closer to being brothers than just friends. Both are dedicated to their acquaintances with various illegal activities as well as to the consumption and sale of recreational drugs, refusing the life of workers and looking for a way out from the problems of life by taking drugs. Cesare lives with his mother and niece Debora, the daughter of his sister who died due to AIDS, and who is ill herself. One evening Vittorio, after taking several pills, has a series of hallucinations and therefore decides to change his life. He fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the ''Union of Burma'', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President, and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published in the United States. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object. * January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop communal violence during the Partition of India. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Deaths
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Italian Film Directors
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