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Jolanda Benvenuti
Jolanda Benvenuti was an Italian film editor.Bondanella p.158 She worked on more than a 150 productions during her career, including several films directed by Roberto Rossellini. Selected filmography * ''The White Primrose'' (1947) * '' Ring Around the Clock'' (1950) * '' Stromboli'' (1950) * '' The Flowers of St. Francis'' (1950) * ''The Ungrateful Heart'' (1951) * '' Malavita'' (1951) * ''Three Girls from Rome'' (1952) * ''The Piano Tuner Has Arrived'' (1952) * ''The Machine to Kill Bad People'' (1952) * '' Europe '51'' (1952) * ''Naples Sings'' (1953) * ''Storms'' (1953) * ''We, the Women'' (1953) * '' It Takes Two to Sin in Love'' (1954) * ''Fear'' (1954) * '' Giovanna d'Arco al rogo'' (1954) * ''Letter from Naples'' (1954) * ''The Island Monster'' (1954) * '' Tragic Ballad'' (1954) * ''Tears of Love'' (1954) * '' Journey to Italy'' (1954) * '' The Courier of Moncenisio'' (1956) * ''The Most Wonderful Moment'' (1957) * ''Adorabili e bugiarde'' (1958) * ''Banditi a Orgosolo'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology. The film editor works with raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences which create a finished motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is often referred to as the "invisible art" because when it is well-practiced, the viewer can become so engaged that they are not aware of the editor's work. On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job of an editor is not simply to mechanically put pieces of a film togeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanna D'Arco Al Rogo
''Joan of Arc at the Stake'' (Italian: ''Giovanna d'Arco al rogo'') is a 1954 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring his wife Ingrid Bergman, which shows a live performance in December 1953 at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples. It is based on the oratorio '' Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher'' by Paul Claudel and Arthur Honegger. It was filmed using a color process called Gevacolor. Plot The film takes place mostly in a surrealistic fantasy around the time of the execution of Joan of Arc Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronat .... Joan of Arc, played by Ingrid Bergman, is being burned alive for heresy. In a kind of dream state, she departs from her body and looks back upon her life. She begins this journey depressed and demoralized. However, a priest appears to help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandokan The Great (film)
''Sandokan the Great'' ( it, Sandokan, la tigre di Mompracem) is a 1963 Italian adventure film, directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Steve Reeves. It is the first entry in a film series about Sandokan, the pirate-prince from Emilio Salgari's popular swashbuckler novels. Plot During the reign of Queen Victoria, British forces led by Lord Hillock occupy Tapuah, subduing its population through mass murder. Among their victims are the mother and brothers of Sandokan, and he in reprisal organizes a revolutionary band. When Hillock attempts to entrap the rebel by threatening to hang his father, the Sultan of Mulaker, Sandokan penetrates Hillock's home, taking as hostage the Englishman's niece, Mary Ann. Although initially indignant, Mary Ann comes to love her captor. Following an encounter with headhunters, Sandokan and his men are surrounded by Hillock's forces, and an armistice is negotiated according to which Sandokan and his gang will be exiled in return for Mary Ann's release. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexy Toto
''Sexy Toto'' (Italian: ''Totòsexy'') is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Amendola and starring Totò and Erminio Macario. It consisted of a mere montage of scenes discarded from ''Toto's First Night ''Toto's First Night'' (Italian: ''Totò di notte n. 1'') is a 1962 Italian musical comedy film directed by Mario Amendola and starring Totò and Erminio Macario.Bìspuri p.264 Plot Ninì and Mimi are two friends, itinerant players, who can not ...''. It attracted around 880,000 spectators, considerably less than usual for a Totò films.Bìspuri p.285 Plot After being arrested for criminal activities, two street musicians swap sexy stories with the other inmates. Cast References Bibliography * Ennio Bìspuri. ''Totò: principe clown : tutti i film di Totò''. Guida Editori, 1997. External links * 1963 films 1963 comedy films Italian comedy films 1960s Italian-language films Films directed by Mario Amendola Films with screenplays by Giovanni Grimaldi Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto's First Night
''Toto's First Night'' (Italian: ''Totò di notte n. 1'') is a 1962 Italian musical comedy film directed by Mario Amendola and starring Totò and Erminio Macario.Bìspuri p.264 Plot Ninì and Mimi are two friends, itinerant players, who can not make a penny. It is performed at night, in various places, arousing only the laughter of the public, until Mimi is delivered the conspicuous legacy of his uncle. Ninì immediately takes the opportunity to re-launch the duo in nightclubs, but squanders all the money in goliardic parties. Cast * Totò as Nini * Erminio Macario as Mimi Makò * Margaret Lee * Helmut Zacharias * Mac Ronay * Dodo' D'Amburg * Pascaline * Caroline Lecerf * Moa Tahi * Karin Koidl * Margaret Rose Keil * Caroline Cherie * Madame Arthur * Dori Dorika * Don Lurio Donald Benjamin Lurio, better known by his stage name of Don Lurio (15 November 1929, in New York City – 26 January 2003, in Rome) was an American-born Jewish Italian dancer, chore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiko (film)
''Akiko'' is a 1961 Italian comedy film written and directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico. Plot In Rome, Mrs. Ottavia Colasanto has not had news of her husband since he went to Japan eighteen years ago. She is considered practically a widow. One day, a very beautiful young Japanese girl arrives. She notifies the Colasanto family that she is the biological daughter of Ottavia's (presumably) deceased husband. Cast *Akiko Wakabayashi as Akiko *Pierre Brice as Duilio *Marisa Merlini as Ottavia Colasanto *Memmo Carotenuto as Armando Piffero * as Anita Colasanto *Valeria Fabrizi as Tosca *Andrea Checchi as Sor Egisto *Marcello Paolini as Serse Colasanto *Giacomo Furia as Peppe, aka "Er Campanaro" *Giuseppe Chinnici as the commissioner * as the referee in the ring * Paolo Ferrari as "Terzo Braccio" *Paolo Panelli as Felice *Carlo Taranto Carlo Taranto (18 October 1921 – 4 April 1986) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1949 and 1984. Partial fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banditi A Orgosolo
''Banditi a Orgosolo'' (''Bandits of Orgosolo'') is a 1960 Italian film drama directed by Vittorio De Seta. The film stars Vittorina Pisano. De Seta won an Award for the film at the Venice Film Festival. Cast *Vittorina Pisanu ... Mintonia *Michele Cossu ... Michele Cossu *Peppeddu Cuccu ... Peppeddu Cossu Plot Michele, a shepherd of Orgosolo unfairly charged with rustling and murder, is forced to take to the hills. In his flight into the inaccessible areas of Barbagia, where there is neither water nor pastures, he loses every sheep in his flock. One night, desperate because he is full of debts, and with impending trials up ahead, he goes into the sheepfold of another shepherd and, at gunpoint, steals every sheep. Michele has become a bandit. See also *Il mondo perduto *Détour De Seta ''Détour De Seta'' is a 2004 documentary film directed by Salvo Cuccia about Vittorio De Seta. Synopsis By tracing the places of Vittorio De Seta films and looking for people who had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
