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Paolo Virzì
Paolo Virzì (; born 4 March 1964) is an Italian film director, writer and producer. Early life and work Virzì was born in Livorno, Italy in 1964, as the son of a Sicilian police officer in the Carabinieri and a former singer. After spending his early childhood in Turin in the north of Italy, Virzì's family moved back to Livorno where he grew up in the working class area of "Le Sorgenti". As a small boy, he started to cultivate his lifelong passion for literature: Mark Twain and Charles Dickens were among his favourite authors and their classic "coming of age" novels would later serve as a model for his screenplays. As a teenager, Virzì's versatility was already in evidence as he threw himself into writing, directing and acting in plays for drama companies in Livorno. He formed an artistic partnership with his schoolmate Francesco Bruni, who would later become his trusted co-screenwriter. For a time, Paolo attended Literature and Philosophy classes at Pisa University and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Toronto International Film Festival
The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 7 to 17 September 2017. There were fourteen programmes, with the Vanguard and City to City programmes both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down by 20% from the 2016 edition. ''Borg/McEnroe'' directed by Janus Metz Pedersen opened the festival. According to a "fact sheet" released by the Festival before it began, this edition included 255 feature-length films and 84 short films. Of the feature films, 147 are claimed to be world premieres. The number of Canadian films at the Festival (including co-productions) is listed as 28 features and 29 shorts. Christopher Nolan's ''Dunkirk'' received a special IMAX 70mm screening at the Cinesphere as part of the main film slate and the 50th anniversary of IMAX, making it the first Nolan film to appear at the festival since '' Following'', nineteen years earlier. Awards The festival's final awards were announced on 17 September. Juries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer. Born into the Coppola family, he is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Nicolas Cage, various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award. In the first few years of his career, he starred in a variety of films such as ''Valley Girl (1983 film), Valley Girl'' (1983), ''Peggy Sue Got Married'' (1986), ''Raising Arizona'' (1987), ''Moonstruck'' (1987) and ''Wild at Heart (film), Wild at Heart'' (1990). During this period, John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36 listed him as one of 12 ''Promising New Actors of 1984''. For his performance in ''Leaving Las Vegas'' (1995), he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He subsequently appeared in more mainstream films, including ''The Rock (film), The Rock'' (1996), ''Con Air'' (1997), ''Face/Off'' (1997), ''City of Angels (film), City of Angels'' (199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Ghini
Massimo Ghini (born 12 October 1954) is an Italian actor. Life He has worked with Franco Zeffirelli, Giorgio Strehler, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, and Gabriele Lavia, among others. He has been married to actress Nancy Brilli, and is the father of four children. Selected filmography Film * ''Speed Cross'' (1980) * '' La neve nel bicchiere'' (1984) * '' Secrets Secrets'' (1984) * '' Lethal Obsession'' (1987) * ''Compagni di scuola'' (1988) * '' Italia-Germania 4-3'' (1990) * ''The Battle of the Three Kings'' (1990) * '' Red American'' (1991) * ''The Party's Over'' (1991) * '' Una storia semplice'' (1991) * '' La bella vita'' (1994) * '' The True Life of Antonio H.'' (1994) * ''Men Men Men'' (1995) * '' State Secret'' (1995) * ''Celluloide'' (1996) * '' Follow Your Heart'' (1996) * '' The Truce'' (1997) * ''The Game Bag'' (1997) * '' Tea with Mussolini'' (1999) * '' CQ'' (2001) * ''Almost America'' (2001) * '' John XXIII: The Pope of Peace'' (2002) * '' Imperium: Augustus'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabrina Ferilli
Sabrina Ferilli (born 28 June 1964) is an Italian theater and film actress. Listed among the best Italian actress, she has won five Nastro d'Argento (including a special award in 2016 for civil engagement for her performance in ''Me, Myself and Her''), a Globo d'oro, six Ciak d'oros and received four nominations for David di Donatello. In 2013, she was a protagonist of the Oscar-winning film '' La grande bellezza'' directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Early and personal life Ferilli was born in Rome on 28 June 1964. Her father was also from Rome and a spokesman for the Italian Communist Party in the region of Lazio and her mother, who grew up in Fiano Romano, was a housewife and native of Caserta, Southern Italy. She attended the Liceo Clasico Orazio ("Orazio classical high school") in Rome. After having unsuccessfully attempted to enter the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, she began her career as a film actress in secondary parts, acting in '' Sweets from a Stranger' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Graves
Rupert Simeon Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in '' A Room with a View'', '' Maurice'', '' The Madness of King George'' and '' The Forsyte Saga''. From 2010 to 2017 he starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series '' Sherlock''. Early life Graves was born in Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England, to Mary Lousilla ('' née'' Roberts) Graves, a travel co-ordinator, and Richard Harding Graves, a music teacher and musician. Education Graves was educated at Wyvern Community School, a state comprehensive school in his home town of Weston-super-Mare, which he left at the age of 15. The school has since closed and re-opened as the Hans Price Academy. Career Graves's first job after leaving school was as a circus clown. He has appeared in more than 25 films and more than 35 television productions. He has also appeared on stage. He first came to prominence in costume-drama adaptations of E. M. Forste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Room With A View (1986 Film)
''A Room with a View'' is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. It is written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who adapted E. M. Forster's 1908 novel ''A Room with a View''. Set in England and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) in the final throes of the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England, and her developing love for a free-spirited young man, George Emerson (Julian Sands). Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench and Simon Callow feature in supporting roles. The film closely follows the novel by use of chapter titles to distinguish thematic segments. ''A Room with a View'' received universal critical acclaim and was a box-office success. At the 59th Academy Awards, it was nominated for eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture), and won three: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design. It also won five British Academy Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beppe Fenoglio
Beppe Fenoglio (; born Giuseppe Fenoglio 1 March 1922 in Alba (CN) – 18 February 1963 in Turin) was an Italian writer, partisan and translator from English. The works of Fenoglio have two main themes: the rural world of the Langhe and the Italian resistance movement, both largely inspired by his own personal experiences in them; equally, the writer has two styles: the chronicle and the ''epos''. Fenoglio was drafted in 1943; before he completed officer school, Italy surrendered to the Allies and Germany attacked and occupied most of Italy. Like most of Italian Army, the training unit of Fenoglio collapsed; he adventurously travelled back home from Rome, and spent months in hiding before joining the partisans in January 1944. After fighting till the end of the war, he translated a number of books from English and wrote the works he is known for while working for a winery in Alba. His first work was in the neorealist style: ''La paga del sabato'' (this was published posthumo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Negrin
Alberto Negrin (born 2 January 1940) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, known for his historical, nostalgic and political films. Negrin started his career as a fine art photographer. In 1962 he debuted as an assistant stage director, collaborating with Orazio Costa and Giorgio Strehler. In a career spanning over four decades, Negrin has directed over 30 films and series, including the giallo film '' Enigma rosso'' (1978), '' Mussolini and I'' (1985), starring Bob Hoskins, Anthony Hopkins and Susan Sarandon, the TV miniseries ''The Secret of the Sahara'' (1987) (with Ben Kingsley), '' Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair'' (1989) (with Burt Lancaster), '' Tower of the Firstborn'', '' Perlasca – Un eroe Italiano'' (2002), '' Il Cuore nel Pozzo'' (2005) and ''Mi Ricordo Anna Frank''. l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Private Affair (1993 Film)
''Una questione privata'' is a 1993 Italian film directed by Alberto Negrin with a screenplay based on the WWII partisan novel of the same name by Beppe Fenoglio (1963) adapted by Raffaele La Capria. The film stars the young British actor Rupert Graves as Milton, Céline Beauvallet, and Claudio Mazzenga.Giuseppe Ghigi -La memoria inquieta: cinema e Resistenza - 2009 Page 321 ".. musica: Nicola Piovani; montaggio: R. e F. Silvi; interpreti: Rupert Graves (Milton), Celine Beauvallet (Fulvia), Pina Cei (la custode), Claudio Mazzenga (Giorgio Clerici), Luca Zingaretti (Sceriffo), Alessandro Stefanelli (Hombre), Fabio Sartor ..." Cast * Rupert Graves Rupert Simeon Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in '' A Room with a View'', '' Maurice'', '' The Madness of King George'' and '' The Forsyte Saga''. From 2010 to 2017 he st ... as Milton * Rupert Graves as Milton * Céline Beauvallet as Fulvia * Claudio Mazzenga a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele La Capria
Raffaele La Capria (3 October 1922 – 26 June 2022) was an Italian novelist and screenwriter. His second novel, ''The Mortal Wound'' (''Ferito a morte''), won Italy's most prestigious award, the Strega Prize, and is today considered a classic of Italian literature. Sandro Veronesi referred to it as "the best Italian novel of all time". Biography La Capria was born in Naples, where he was to spend the formative years of his life. There he graduated in law, before staying in France, England, and the United States and then settling in Rome. He contributed to the cultural pages of the ''Corriere della Sera'' and was co-director of the literary journal '' Nuovi Argomenti''. A particular interest was English poetry of the 1930s: as well as writing numerous articles he translated works including T. S. Eliot's '' Four Quartets''. In the 1950s he wrote and produced a number of radio programmes for RAI on foreign contemporary drama. In 1957 La Capria was invited to participate in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felice Farina
Felice Farina (born 14 August 1954) is an Italian director. Biography Felice Farina is a Rome-based artist. He grew through the ferment of Roman avant-garde theatre, both as an actor and backstage, developing – at the same time – a strong interest in animation and special/optical effects for film making. Since 1980 he thus experimented filmmaking riding the transition from traditional to digital imaging, producing several works mixing analogical and numerical techniques in film and multivision. In the same years he started applying elements of technical and industrial design to the field of arts, focusing on the relation between art and science and collaborating on several projects of kinetic and scientific art. As film director he directed several documentaries and three short movies before making his first feature film '' Sembra morto ma... è solo svenuto'' in 1986, written with Gianni Di Gregorio and Sergio Castellitto, who is also the protagonist. He spent many years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Condominio
''Condominio'' (''Apartment Block'') is a 1991 Italian comedy drama film directed by Felice Farina. '''', 31 marzo 1991. For his performance Ciccio Ingrassia won the for best supporting actor. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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