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Radiofreccia
''Radiofreccia'', released in 1998, is the first movie directed by Italian rock singer-songwriter Luciano Ligabue, based on his 1997 debut novel '' Fuori e dentro il Borgo''. It features the singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini (with whom Ligabue also collaborated for a song) in a small role. Cast *Stefano Accorsi as Freccia * Luciano Federico as Bruno * Cosima Coccheri as Ragazza eroinomane * Paolo Cremonini as Omero * Fulvio Farnetti as Virus * Ottorino Ferrari as Pluto *Serena Grandi Serena Grandi (born 23 March 1958, in Bologna) is an Italian actress, famous as an icon and sex symbol in Italian cinema of the 1980s and 1990s. Known for her junoesque body and voluptuous measurements, she was considered one of the main pin-up ... as Madre di Freccia * Francesco Guccini as Adolfo References External links * * 1990s Italian-language films Italian drama films 1998 films 1990s Italian films Fandango (Italian company) films {{1990s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Accorsi
Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi (; born 2 March 1971) is an Italian actor. Early life and background Accorsi was born in Bologna. He graduated from Bologna's Theatrical School in 1993, and acted in the theatre for several years before moving to cinema. Career In 1995 he played the lead in '' Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo'', one of his best known films. In 1998 he worked with Daniele Luchetti in ''I Piccoli Maestri'', which competed for the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival. In the same year he won three prizes for his role in '' Radiofreccia'', directed by rock star Luciano Ligabue, including David di Donatello for Best Actor. He was the lead in the successful film '' L'ultimo bacio'' (''The Last Kiss''). He won the leading role in Maria de Medeiros’ '' Capitães de Abril'' (''April Captains''), and has worked with director Nanni Moretti in ''The Son's Room''. In 2001, Accorsi also had the leading role in Ferzan Özpetek's ''Le fate ignoranti '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Ligabue
Luciano Riccardo Ligabue (born 13 March 1960), commonly known as Ligabue or Liga, is an Italian singer-songwriter, film director and writer. Biography Ligabue was born in Correggio, in the province of Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title ... in northern Italy). Before becoming a successful singer, he held various jobs, working in agriculture and in factories. He entered the music world in 1987 when he founded the amateur band Orazero. For this band, he wrote several original songs, with which they participated in several local and national contests. The following year his fellow Emilian singer-songwriter Pierangelo Bertoli was the first to discover Ligabue's writing talents, and included one of Ligabue's songs, "Sogni di Rock'n'Roll" ("Rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fandango (Italian Company)
Fandango is an Italian entertainment company founded in 1989 by Domenico Procacci. Fandango began as a film production company and has expanded its focus over the years into publishing, film distribution, music, television, radio, and the management of literary cafés and cinemas. History Fandango was founded in 1989 by Domenico Procacci, who named it after the 1985 film of the same name starring Kevin Costner. Fandango's first production was the film '' The Station'' (1990) by Sergio Rubini. The film was screened at the Venice International Film Festival, and was awarded the David di Donatello Award for Best New Director and the Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director. In 1992, Fandango produced its first international co-production, ''Bad Boy Bubby'' by Rolf de Heer. The collaboration later inspired the creation of an Australian branch of Fandango in 2002. In 1998, Fandango produced two films by first-time directors: '' Radiofreccia'' by Luciano Ligabue and e ''Ecco fatto'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Guccini
Francesco Guccini (, born 14 June 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important '' cantautori'' of his time. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics writer. Guccini also worked as actor, soundtrack composer, lexicographer and dialectologist. Guccini moved to Pàvana during World War II, then returned to Modena where he spent his teenage years and established his musical career. His debut album, '' Folk beat n. 1'', was released in 1967, but the first success was in 1972 with the album '' Radici''. He was harshly criticised after releasing ''Stanze di vita quotidiana'', and answered his critics with the song "L'avvelenata". His studio albums production slowed down in the nineties and 2000s, but his live performances continued being successful. His lyrics have been praised for their poetic and li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Federico
Luciano Federico (born 28 August 1968, in Sanremo) is an Italian actor. He starred in the 1998 film, '' Radiofreccia''. Selected filmography *'' Una piccola storia'', directed by Stefano Chiantini (2007) *''L'Ex-femme de ma vie'', directed by Josiane Balasko (2005) *'' The Passion'', directed by Mel Gibson (2004) *'' Il segreto del successo'' (2003) *'' Forse sì, forse no'', directed by Stefano Chiantini (2002) *'' Malèna'', Italo-German film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (2000) *'' Il diario di Matilde Manzoni'', directed by Lino Capolicchio (2002) *'' 800 balas'', directed by Alex de la Iglesia (2002) *'' L'ultima lezione'', directed by Fabio Rosi (2001) *'' Senza filtro'', directed by Mimmo Raimondi (2001) *'' Fughe da Fermo'', directed by Edoardo Nesi (2000) *'' A Love'', directed by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli (1999) *'' Radiofreccia'', directed by Luciano Ligabue (1998) *''Naja'' (1997) *''Un paradiso di bugie'' (1997) *''La classe non è acqua'', directed by Cecilia Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serena Grandi
Serena Grandi (born 23 March 1958, in Bologna) is an Italian actress, famous as an icon and sex symbol in Italian cinema of the 1980s and 1990s. Known for her junoesque body and voluptuous measurements, she was considered one of the main pin-up girls of Italy. Some films credited her as Vanessa Steiger. Horror film buffs know her for her two gory opuses, ''Antropophagus'' (1980) and ''Delirium'' (1987). Biography Serena Grandi is the stage name for Serena Faggioli, born in Bologna. She graduated in computer programming and was first employed in a scientific analysis laboratory. She started her acting career in 1980, playing a supporting role in the comedy film ''La Compagna di viaggio'' by Ferdinando Baldi. In the same year, Grandi played the role of Maggie in the controversial film ''Antropophagus'', directed by Joe D'Amato. This film is well known among horror movie fans for its extreme gore sequences. After several minor roles, she took the title role in Tinto Brass' '' Mira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Procacci
Domenico Procacci (born 8 February 1960) is an Italian film producer. Life and career Born in Bari, Procacci debuted as a producer in the late 1980s, when he co-founded with Renzo Rossellini and others the production company Vertigo. In 1990 he founded the company Fandango, which debuted with a box office hit, Sergio Rubini's ''La stazione''. He soon specialized in producing small-budget art films directed by young directors. In 1992, he started a long collaboration with Rolf de Heer, producing and even distributing his films in Italy, and in 2002 he co-founded with de Heer, Richard Lowenstein, Sue Murray and Bryce Menzies the production company Fandango Australia. Procacci won four David di Donatello Awards for best producer, and four Silver Ribbons in the same category. In 2014, Procacci had a son with Kasia Smutniak, whom he married in September 2019. Selected filmography * 1990 - '' The Station'' * 1992 - ''Flight of the Innocent'' * 1993 - ''Bad Boy Bubby '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Films
The year 1998 in film involved many significant films, including '' Shakespeare in Love'' (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), '' Saving Private Ryan'','' Armageddon'' (which was the top grossing film of the year in the United States), '' American History X'', '' The Truman Show'', ''Primary Colors'', '' ''Rushmore'''', ''Rush Hour'', '' There's Something About Mary'', '' The Big Lebowski'', and Terrence Malick's directorial return in '' The Thin Red Line''. DreamWorks SKG released its first two animated films: '' Antz'' and ''The Prince of Egypt''. The ''Pokémon'' theatrical film series started with '' Pokémon: The First Movie''. Warner Bros. Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary. The year saw two dueling science-fiction disaster films about asteroids, '' Armageddon'' and ''Deep Impact'', becoming box office success, with ''Armageddon'' becoming the more popular of the two. It was also the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide. Highest-grossing films The t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medusa Film
In Greek mythology, Medusa (; Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα "guardian, protectress"), also called Gorgo, was one of the three monstrous Gorgons, generally described as winged human females with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Those who gazed into her eyes would turn to stone. Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, although the author Hyginus makes her the daughter of Gorgon and Ceto. Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus, who then used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone, as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity, the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the ''Gorgoneion''. According to Hesiod and Aeschylus, she lived and died on Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. The 2nd-century BC novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya, where Herodotus had said the Berbers originated her myth as part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debut Novel
A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to publish in the future. First-time novelists without a previous published reputation, such as publication in nonfiction, magazines, or literary journals, typically struggle to find a publisher. Sometimes new novelists will self-publish their debut novels, because publishing houses will not risk the capital needed to market books by an unknown author to the public. Most publishers purchase rights to novels, especially debut novels, through literary agents, who screen client work before sending it to publishers. These hurdles to publishing reflect both publishers' limits in resources for reviewing and publishing unknown works, and that readers typically buy more books by established authors with a reputation than first-time writers. For this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaldo Catinari
Arnaldo Catinari (born 9 January 1964) is an Italian cinematographer and film director. Career Born in Bologna, Catinari studied architecture at the University of Florence and in 1983 he enrolled in a course in cinematography at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under Carlo Di Palma and Giuseppe Lanci. From 1985, he worked extensively as a cinematographer for short films and, since the mid-1990s, for feature films. He has also been active as a director of short films and in 1992 he directed his first and only feature-length film, ''Dall'altra parte del mondo''. Awards Catinari won a Nastro d'Argento for best cinematography in 2008 for his work in the films ''The Demons of St. Petersberg'' and ''Parlami d'amore ''Parlami d'amore'' (English: ''Speak to me of love'') is a 2008 Italo-Spanish film directed by Silvio Muccino. The film is based on Muccino's novel of the same name that he co-wrote with Carla Vangelista. The film was nominated for 8 David di Do ...''. Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
