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Franco Delli Colli
Franco Delli Colli (2 March 1929 – 22 April 2004) was an Italian film cinematographer. Born in Rome, he began to work in the late 1940s with his cousin Tonino Delli Colli as camera operator and assistant cinematographer, and worked with him to dozens of films, including Dino Risi's ''Poveri ma belli'', Pier Paolo Pasolini's ''Accattone'' and ''Mamma Roma'' and Luchino Visconti's ''The Leopard''. In the early 1960s, Delli Colli started his career as cinematographer, working mainly in genre films; his credits include Pupi Avati's '' Balsamus'' and '' Zeder'', Giulio Questi's ''Django Kill'', Lamberto Bava's ''Macabre'' and Sidney Salkow Sidney Salkow (June 16, 1911 – October 18, 2000) was an American film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulf ...'s '' The Last Man on Earth''. In early nineties he retired from cinema to dedicate himself to d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome, Italy
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Zeder
''Zeder'' is a 1983 Italian horror film directed by Pupi Avati, starring Gabriele Lavia. The story is about a young novelist's discovery of the writings of a late scientist who had found a means of reviving the dead. Plot In 1956, Gabriella (Veronica Moriconi)—a girl with apparent psychic powers—is brought to the enormous house of Dr. Meyer (Cesare Barbetti) in Chartres, France. Meyer intends to conduct an experiment testing her abilities. He takes her into his basement, where the youngster abruptly falls to her knees and begins digging into the dirt. "This is where you're hiding, isn't it?" Meyer yells. He rushes upstairs for help from his assistants and leaves Gabriella by herself. She is attacked by something unseen and is taken to the hospital. In the basement, further digging reveals a rotted corpse, with a nearby wallet identifying the dead man as Paolo Zeder. Dr. Meyer realizes that the earth in which Zeder was buried was a 'K-Zone'. In present-day Bologna, Stefano (G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Births
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The Last Man On Earth (1964 Film)
''The Last Man on Earth'' is a 1964 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film based on the 1954 novel '' I Am Legend'' by Richard Matheson. The film was produced by Robert L. Lippert and directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, and stars Vincent Price and Franca Bettoia. The screenplay was written in part by Matheson, but he was dissatisfied with the result and chose to be credited as "Logan Swanson". William Leicester, Furio M. Monetti, and Ubaldo Ragona finished the script. ''The Last Man on Earth'' was filmed in Rome, with scenes being completed at Esposizione Universale Roma. It was released in the United States by American International Pictures. In the 1980s, the film entered the public domain. MGM Home Video, the current owners of the AIP film catalog, released a digitally remastered widescreen version of the film on DVD in September 2005. Plot It is 1968, and Dr. Robert Morgan lives in a world where everyone else has been infected by a plague that has turned th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Salkow
Sidney Salkow (June 16, 1911 – October 18, 2000) was an American film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ... (more than 50 motion pictures), screenwriter, and television director. Salkow was educated at the City College of New York, Columbia University and Harvard Law School. After school, he returned to New York City and became an assistant director of theater and playwright. Later on, he established himself as a theatrical director. In 1932, he joined up with the film industry starting as a dialogue director. But soon, after achieving the ranks, he became a prolific writer/director of such films as ''Sitting Bull (film), Sitting Bull'', ''Twice-Told Tales (film), Twice-Told Tales'' (1963), and ''The Last Man on Earth (1964 film), The Last Man on Earth'' (196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macabre (1980 Film)
''Macabre'' ( it, Macabro) is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Lamberto Bava. Plot Jane Baker, a woman living in New Orleans, is carrying on an affair with a man, Fred, behind her husband and children's back. Her adolescent daughter, Lucy, suspects her mother is cheating on her father. Jane carries on trysts with Fred in an apartment she rents in a boarding house owned by Mrs. Duval, whose blind adult son Robert also lives in the building. While Jane is meeting with Fred for sex, Lucy drowns her little brother Michael in the bathtub and stages it as an accident. When she receives news of the death over the phone, Fred offers to drive her home, but crashes into a guardrail en route; Fred is brutally killed in the accident, but Jane survives. A year later, Jane separates from her husband Leslie and moves in permanently to the Duvals' boardinghouse, which is managed by Robert alone, as his mother has died in the intervening year. On her first night in the boardinghouse, Rober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamberto Bava
Lamberto Bava (born 3 April 1944) is an Italian film director. Born in Rome, Bava began working as an assistant director for his director father Mario Bava. Lamberto co-directed the 1979 television film ''La Venere d'Ille'' with his father and in 1980 directed his first solo feature film ''Macabre''. Bava continued working in the 1980s and collaborated with Dario Argento on films such as '' Demons''. After 1990, Bava's work was predominantly involved with television, such as his '' Fantaghirò'' series. Biography Lamberto Bava was born in Rome, Italy on 3 April 1944. Lamberto's father Mario Bava was a film director known primarily as a director of horror films. Lamberto's film career began in the mid-1960s working as an assistant director on his father's film ''Planet of the Vampires''. Lamberto would later collaborate with his father on several of his projects, including '' Danger: Diabolik'' (1966), ''Twitch of the Death Nerve'' (1971) and ''Shock'' (1977) (On ''Shock'', Lamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Django Kill
''Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!'' ( it, Se sei vivo spara, lit=If You Live Shoot) is a 1967 Spaghetti Western film directed by Giulio Questi and starring Tomas Milian, Marilù Tolo, Roberto Camardiel, and Ray Lovelock in his film debut. Plot A pair of Indian medicine men encounter a wounded bandit, the Stranger, crawling out from a mass grave; they nurse him back to health. During his recovery, he remembers an assault on a Wells Fargo covered wagon guarded by US Army troops. The Stranger, his partner Oaks, and their gang killed the troops, caught swimming in a river, and stole a strongbox containing bags of powdered gold from the wagon. However, Oaks and the white members of the gang betrayed the Stranger and the Mexican bandits, and forced them to dig their grave before gunning them down. In the present, the Indians inform the Stranger that they have smelted his share of the gold into bullets, and that they wish to be his companions so that he can tell them about the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Questi
Giulio Questi (18 March 1924 – 3 December 2014) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.Marco Giusti, Dizionario dei film italiani stracult, Roma, Frassinelli, 2004. Questi was born in Bergamo. He wrote short stories and filmed several documentaries before he started as assistant director and script writer in the movie business. He is best known for the films ''La morte ha fatto l'uovo'' and '' Django Kill! (If You Live Shoot!)''. Questi 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 ..., aged 90. Filmography References Footnotes Sources * * External links * 1924 births 2014 deaths Film people from Bergamo Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters Italian film directors {{italy-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balsamus, L'uomo Di Satana
''Balsamus, l'uomo di Satana'' () is a 1970 Italian film. It is the debut film of director Pupi Avati. Cast * Bob Tonelli as Balsamus * Greta Vaillant as Lorenza * Giulio Pizzirani as Ottavio * Gianni Cavina as Alliata * Antonio Avati as Dorillo Style Despite the title and promotional material for the film, film historian Roberto Curti discussed the films genre, declaring it to not be a horror film, but a film that "embodies elements of comedy, with an insistence on regional types, but its main feature is grotesque." Production ''Balsamus, l'umo di Satana'' was a production with a crew of people director Pupi Avati knew personally. The film was written by Avati and his friends Enzo Leonardo and Giorgio Celli. Avati's brother, Antonio Avati acts in the film as Dorillo. Avati later described the script as one "with in-depth linguistic, lexical and historical research. We put everything we could in it and more, in the illusion of being appreciated by who knows who or where. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonino Delli Colli
Tonino Delli Colli (20 November 1923 – 16 August 2005) was an Italian cinematographer. Biography Cousin of Franco Delli Colli, Antonio (Tonino) Delli Colli was born in Rome, and began work at Rome's Cinecittà studio in 1938, at the age of sixteen. By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film in colour, ''Totò a colori''. He went on to work with a number of acclaimed and diverse directors including, Sergio Leone (''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'', ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' and ''Once Upon a Time in America''), Roman Polanski ('' Death and the Maiden'' and ''Bitter Moon''), Louis Malle (''Lacombe, Lucien''), Jean-Jacques Annaud (''The Name of the Rose''), and Federico Fellini, whose last three films he photographed. His collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini was especially fruitful: they made twelve films together, including Pasolini's debut ''Accattone'' (1961), ''Mamma Roma'' (1962), '' The Gospel According to St. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
