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Fortunella (film)
''Fortunella'' is a 1958 Italian comedy film directed by Eduardo De Filippo, with script by Federico Fellini. Cast * Giulietta Masina: Nanda Diotallevi, aka 'Fortunella' * Alberto Sordi: Peppino * Paul Douglas: Professor Golfiero Paganica * Eduardo De Filippo: Head of the Theater Company * Piera Arico: Katya * Nando Bruno: The American * Guido Celano: The Doorman * Carlo Dapporto: The Actor * Carlo Delle Piane: Riccardino * Enrico Glori: The Gambler * Franca Marzi: Amelia * Mimmo Poli: Orso Bruno * Aldo Silvani: Guidobaldi Music The film's score, composed by Nino Rota, notably contains three memorable motifs, two of which would be reused in Rota's most famous film compositions: ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960) and ''The Godfather'' (1972). Another prominent motif had already been used in another Rota composition, ''Il Bidone'' (1955). 45th Academy Awards At the 45th Academy Awards, Nino Rota's score for ''The Godfather'' was removed at the last minute from the list of nomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo De Filippo
Eduardo De Filippo (; 24 May 1900 – 31 October 1984), also known simply as ''Eduardo'', was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and playwright, best known for his Neapolitan works '' Filumena Marturano'' and '' Napoli Milionaria''. Considered one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th century, De Filippo was the author of many theatrical dramas staged and directed by himself first and later awarded and played outside Italy. For his artistic merits and contributions to Italian culture, he was named ''senatore a vita'' by the President of the Italian Republic Sandro Pertini. Biography De Filippo was born in Naples from the affair between playwright and actor Eduardo Scarpetta and theatre seamstress and costumier Luisa De Filippo. He was the second of three children born from the couple, the other two being Annunziata "Titina" and Giuseppe "Peppino". His father was actually married since 1876 to Rosa De Filippo, Luisa's paternal aunt. His father Eduardo h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Dapporto
Carlo Dapporto (26 June 1911 – 1 October 1989) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 35 films between 1944 and 1987. He was born in Sanremo, Italy and died in Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ..., Italy. Filmography References External links * * 1911 births 1989 deaths People from Sanremo Italian male film actors 20th-century Italian male actors Ciak d'oro winners {{Italy-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Films
The year 1958 in film in the US involved some significant events, including the hit musicals ''South Pacific'' and '' Gigi'', the latter of which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1958 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 29 – ''Ascenseur pour l'échafaud'' is an early example of the French New Wave; it is also notable for the improvised soundtrack by Miles Davis. '' Le Beau Serge'' is credited as the first French New Wave feature. * February 16 – '' In the Money'' by William Beaudine is released. It will be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began in 1946. * February 27 – Harry Cohn, the remaining founder of Columbia Pictures and one of the last remaining Hollywood movie moguls, dies. * The second installment of Sergei Eisenstein's ''Ivan the Terrible'' is officially released, having previously been shelved for political reasons. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speak Softly Love (Love Theme From The Godfather)
"Love Theme from ''The Godfather''" is an instrumental theme from the 1972 film ''The Godfather'', composed by Nino Rota. The piece was lyricized in English by Larry Kusik into "Speak Softly, Love", a popular song released in 1972. The highest-charting rendition of either version was by vocalist Andy Williams, who took "Speak Softly Love" to number 34 on ''Billboard'' magazine's Hot 100. and number seven on its Easy Listening chart.. Background Larry Kusik wrote the original, English lyrics, and Nino Rota wrote the music, that was used in ''Fortunella'', a 1958 Italian film directed by Eduardo De Filippo with script by Federico Fellini. Different sets of lyrics for the song were written in French (''Parle plus bas''), Italian (''Parla più piano''), Portuguese (''Fale baixinho''), Sicilian (''Brucia la terra''), and Spanish (''Amor háblame dulcemente''). Dalida sings the French version; the Sicilian version is sung by Anthony Corleone (Franc D'Ambrosio) in ''The Godfather P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Original Score
The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. Some pre-existing music is allowed, though, but a contending film must include a minimum of original music. This minimum since 2021 is established in 35% of the music, which is raised to 80% for sequels and franchise films. Fifteen scores are shortlisted before nominations are announced. History The Academy began awarding movies for their scores in 1935. The category was originally called Best Scoring. At the time, winners and nominees were a mix of original scores and adaptations of pre-existing material. Following the controversial win of Charles Previn for '' One Hundred Men and a Girl'' in 1938, a film without a credited composer that featured pre-existing classical music, the Academy added a Best Original Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
45th Academy Awards
The 45th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday, March 27, 1973, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, honoring the best films of 1972. The ceremonies were presided over by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson. The ceremony was marked by Marlon Brando's boycott of the Oscars and his sending of Sacheen Littlefeather to explain why he couldn't show up to collect his Best Actor award for ''The Godfather'', and by Charlie Chaplin's only competitive Oscar win for Best Original Dramatic Score for his 20-year-old film ''Limelight'', which was eligible because it did not screen in Los Angeles until 1972. Chaplin had received honorary Academy Awards in 1929 and 1972. ''Cabaret'', Bob Fosse's adaptation of the Broadway stage musical, set a record for the most Oscars won without winning Best Picture. Best Picture winner ''The Godfather'' received only three Academy Awards. This year was the first time that two African American women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Bidone
''Il bidone'' (, "The Drum ">ontainer/nowiki>"; also known as ''The Swindle'' or ''The Swindlers'') is a 1955 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini from his own screenplay co-written with Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli. It features Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart and Giulietta Masina. Released one year after the director's internationally successful ''La Strada'', ''Il bidone'' continues with many of the same socially conscious, neorealist-inspired themes while minimizing the poetic realism and extravagant vitality, that is today known as "felliniesque", in favor of a more pointed political stance. Plot In the country outside Rome, a group of swindlers dress up as clerics and con poor farmers out of their savings. Another scam in a shanty town is to pretend they are officials taking deposits for apartments. The proceeds are spent on flashy cars, champagne and prostitutes. One member of the gang, Carlo - nicknamed Picasso in being an aspiring artist - pretends to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Godfather
''The Godfather'' is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 The Godfather (novel), novel of the same title. The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather (film series), ''The Godfather'' trilogy, chronicling the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) from 1945 to 1955. It focuses on the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless Crime boss, mafia boss. Paramount Pictures obtained the rights to the novel for $80,000, before it gained popularity. Studio executives had trouble finding a director; the first few candidates turned down the position before Coppola signed on to direct the film but disagreement followed over casting several characters, in parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Dolce Vita
''La Dolce Vita'' (; Italian for "the sweet life" or "the good life"Kezich, 203) is a 1960 satirical comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini. The film stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Rubini, a tabloid journalist who, over seven days and nights, journeys through the "sweet life" of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness. The screenplay, written by Fellini and three other screenwriters, can be divided into a prologue, seven major episodes interrupted by an intermezzo, and an epilogue, according to the most common interpretation.Cf. Bondanella 1994, p. 143 and Kezich, p. 203 Released in Italy on 5 February 1960, ''La Dolce Vita'' was both a critical success and worldwide commercial hit, despite censorship in some regions. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Costumes. It was nominated for three more Oscars, including Best Director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motif (music)
In music, a motif IPA: ( /moʊˈtiːf/) (also motive) is a short musical phrase, a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition: "The motive is the smallest structural unit possessing thematic identity". The '' Encyclopédie de la Pléiade'' regards it as a " melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic cell", whereas the 1958 ''Encyclopédie Fasquelle'' maintains that it may contain one or more cells, though it remains the smallest analyzable element or phrase within a subject. It is commonly regarded as the shortest subdivision of a theme or phrase that still maintains its identity as a musical idea. "The smallest structural unit possessing thematic identity". Grove and Larousse also agree that the motif may have harmonic, melodic and/or rhythmic aspects, Grove adding that it "is most often thought of in melodic terms, and it is this aspect of the motif that is connoted by the term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Silvani
Aldo Silvani (21 January 1891 – 12 November 1964) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1934 and 1964. He was born in Turin, Italy and died in Milan, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Cardinal Lambertini'' (1934) * '' The Ancestor'' (1936) * '' The Three Wishes'' (1937) * '' The King of England Will Not Pay'' (1941) * '' Carmela'' (1942) * ''The Jester's Supper'' (1942) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1942) * ''Four Steps in the Clouds'' (1942) * '' Lively Teresa'' (1943) * ''Anything for a Song'' (1943) * ''Maria Malibran'' (1943) * '' The Son of the Red Corsair'' (1943) * '' Romulus and the Sabines'' (1945) * '' L'abito nero da sposa'' (1945) * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * ''Life Begins Anew'' (1945) * '' The Ways of Sin'' (1946) * ''The Courier of the King'' (1947) * '' To Live in Peace'' (1947) * '' The Captain's Daughter'' (1947) * '' Difficult Years'' (1948) * '' Mad About Opera'' (1948) * '' Little Lady'' (1949) * '' A Night of Fame'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimmo Poli
Mimmo Poli (born Domenico Poli, April 11, 1920 – April 4, 1986) was an Italian film character actor. Career He was one of the best known and most active characters of Italian cinema; in his thirty-five-year career he boasted an immense filmography having appeared in over 200 films. He started from a young age by treading the stages and reciting in Roman dialect. In 1951 he had a small part in the film '' Toto and the King of Rome'' directed by Mario Monicelli. Since then he became a very special face, loved both by Totò and by Federico Fellini. He appears everywhere, where you need a bartender, a docker, a prisoner, from the films of the '' Monnezza '' to those of Bernardo Bertolucci. Among the most relevant films: ''The Overcoat'' (1952) by Alberto Lattuada; '' Toto in Color'' (1952) by Steno; '' Termini Station'' (1953) by Vittorio De Sica; '' Beat the Devil'' by John Huston; ''Nights of Cabiria'' (1956) by Federico Fellini; '' Poveri ma belli'' (1956) by Dino Risi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
