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Sergio Castellitto
Sergio Castellitto (born 18 August 1953) is an Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter. Biography Sergio Castellitto was born in Rome in 1953, to parents from Molise and Abruzzo, Southern Italy. After graduating from the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art in 1978, he began his theatrical career in Italian public theater with Shakespeare's ''Measure for Measure'' at the Teatro di Roma and with roles in other plays such as ''La Madre'' by Brecht, ''Merchant of Venice'', and ''Candelaio'' by Giordano Bruno. At the Teatro di Genova he starred in the roles of Tuzenbach in Chekhov's ''Three Sisters'' and Jean in Strindberg's ''Miss Julie'', both under the direction of Otomar Krejka. In the coming years, he also starred in such theatrical productions as ''L'infelicità senza desideri'' and ''Piccoli equivoci'' at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He also appeared in ''Barefoot in the Park'' by Neil Simon. During his years in the theatre, he worked alongside man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Mazzantini
Margaret Mazzantini (; born 27 October 1961) is an Italians, Italian-Irish people, Irish writer and actress. She became a film, television and stage actor, but is best known as a writer. Mazzantini began her acting career in 1980 starring in the cult horror classic ''Antropophagus'', she has also appeared in television and theatre. As a successful writer, her novels include ''Non ti muovere'' (''Don't Move'') which was adapted into a Don't Move (film), film of the same name and is directed by her husband Sergio Castellitto and stars Penélope Cruz. Her career as a writer and actress has earned her several awards and nominations including Campiello Awards, a Golden Ticket Awards, Golden Ticket Award, and a Goya Awards, Goya Award. Early life Mazzantini was born in Dublin, Ireland to Carlo Mazzantini, an Italian writer and artist, and Anne Donnelly, an Irish artist. She has three sisters (one of whom is Giselda Volodi). She spent her childhood around Europe, Spain, and Tangier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
66th Venice International Film Festival
The 66th annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was held from 2 to 12 September 2009, with Maria Grazia Cucinotta serving as the festival's hostess. The opening film of the festival was '' Baarìa'' by Giuseppe Tornatore and the closing film was '' Chengdu, I Love You'' by Fruit Chan and Cui Jian. The international competition jury, chaired by Ang Lee, awarded the Golden Lion to ''Lebanon'' by Samuel Maoz. Juries The international juries of the 66th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows: Main competition (Venezia 66) * Ang Lee, Taiwanese director, screenwriter and producer (Jury President) * Sergei Bodrov, Russian director, screenwriter and producer * Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress, director and screenwriter * Liliana Cavani, Italian director and screenwriter * Joe Dante, American director, producer, editor and actor * Anurag Kashyap, Indian director, writer, producer and actor * Luciano Ligabue, Italian director, writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Academy Award, Oscar and Tony Award nominations than any other writer. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression. His parents' financial difficulties affected their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters, where he enjoyed watching early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After graduating from high school and serving a few years in the United States Army Air Forces, Army Air Force Reserve, he began writing comedy scripts for radio programs and popular early television shows. Among the latter were Sid Caesar's ''Your Show of Shows'' (where in 1950 he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart and Sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema.Katz, Ephraim, "Italy," ''The Film Encyclopedia'' (New York: HarperResource, 2001), pp. 682-685. In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as '' Everybody's Fine'', ''The Legend of 1900'', '' Malèna'', '' Baarìa'' and ''The Best Offer''. His most noted film is '' Cinema Paradiso'', for which Tornatore won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has also directed several advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana. Tornatore is also known for his long-standing association with composer Ennio Morricone, who composed music for thirteen Tornatore feature films since 1988. Life and career Born in Bagheria, near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star Maker (1995 Film)
''The Star Maker'' ( it, L'uomo delle stelle) is a 1995 Italian film. It was produced by Rita Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, while the title role was played by Sergio Castellitto. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Plot In 1953, Joe Morelli is traveling rural Sicily, offering to take screen tests of wannabe actors for a fee. He claims to work for big Roman film studios, but in reality he is a fraud. He meets several people who express their deepest feelings and secrets in front of the camera. At one of his stops he meets a young girl, Beata, a convent girl who becomes attached to him despite his protestations. Joe and Beata's relationship gradually evolves into a romantic one, when he's exposed as a fraud, beaten, and arrested. After serving his prison term, Joe comes back to seek Beata, but finds her in a mentally disturbed state assuming Joe died. Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Archibugi
Francesca Archibugi (; born 16 May 1960) is an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Life and career Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family (her elder brother is the political and economic theorist Daniele Archibugi), she started to study acting with Alessandro Fersen and graduated in Film Direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. From 1980 to 1983 she directed short films such as ''La piccola avventura'' (1981), about handicapped children, and acted in '' La caduta degli angeli ribelli'' (1981), directed by Marco Tullio Giordana and starring Alida Valli. She filmed the short ''Un sogno truffato'' in 1984 with the Lualdi-Interlenghi duo and played the neurotic intellectual woman in Giuseppe Bertolucci's film '' Segreti, segreti'' (1986), again starring Alida Valli, and with Rossana Podestà, Lea Massari, Lina Sastri and Stefania Sandrelli. She wrote the script of '' L'estate sta finendo'' in 1987. Her long film debut came with '' Mignon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Pumpkin (1993 Film)
''The Great Pumpkin'' ( it, Il grande cocomero) is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by Francesca Archibugi. It was screened in the ''Un Certain Regard'' section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, and selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The film focuses on Valentina, a young girl, sent to a psychiatric clinic. A literal translation of the title would substitute "watermelon" for "pumpkin"; however, the phrase has pop culture cachet from being an intentional mistranslation of "The Great Pumpkin" from the comic strip, ''Peanuts''. Plot Valentina, nicknamed Pippi, is the daughter of two rich spouses. After having had an attack of epilepsy she is admitted to the department of child neuropsychiatry. The doctor who takes care of her is Arturo, who is immediately convinced that the child has these attacks due to psychological a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Verdone
Carlo Gregorio Verdone (born 17 November 1950) is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. Verdone is best known for his comedic roles in Italian classics, which he also wrote and directed. His career was jumpstarted by his first three successes, '' Un sacco bello'' (1980), '' Bianco, rosso e Verdone'' (1981) and ''Borotalco'' (1982). Since the 1990s, he has been introducing more serious subjects in his work, linked to the excesses of society and the individual's hardships in confronting it; some examples are '' Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrata'' (1992), '' Il mio miglior nemico'' (2006) and '' Io, loro e Lara'' (2010). Early life Carlo Verdone was born in Rome to Mario Verdone, an important Italian film critic and academic, and studied at the Italian Liceo classico in Rome, having the future actor Christian De Sica as his deskmate. Subsequently, Verdone earned a degree in Modern Literature at Sapienza University of Rome, the same university where his father tau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Tognazzi
Ricky Tognazzi (born Riccardo Tognazzi; ; 1 May 1955) is an Italian actor and film director. He has appeared in 50 films and television shows since 1963. His film '' The Escort'' was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival for his film ''Ultra''. Five years later, his film '' Strangled Lives'' won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. He is the son of film actor and director Ugo Tognazzi and the half-brother of actor Gianmarco Tognazzi and film director Maria Sole Tognazzi. In 2016, he appeared as an out-of touch variety show host in the music video for "''Tutti Frutti''" by English rock band New Order. He's an outspoken atheist, even if he admires some religious figures such as Saint Thomas, Pope John XXIII and Pope Francis. Selected filmography Director * ''Little Misunderstandings'' (1989) * ''Ultra'' (1991) * '' The Escort'' (1993) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piccoli Equivoci
''Piccoli equivoci'' (internationally released as ''Little Misunderstandings'') is a 1989 Italian comedy film directed by Ricky Tognazzi. It was shown at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, in the section "Quinzaine des Réalisateurs". For this film Nancy Brilli won a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress and a Silver Ribbon in the same category. The director Ricky Tognazzi was instead awarded with a David di Donatello for Best New Director and a Silver Ribbon in the same category. Cast * Sergio Castellitto: Paolo *Lina Sastri: Francesca *Roberto Citran Roberto Citran (born 26 January 1955) is an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Padua, Citran graduated in psychology and founded the university film club "CINEMAUNO" in his hometown. After some sporadic stage works he founded a small theate ...: Giuliano * Nancy Brilli: Sophie * Nicola Pistoia: Enrico * Pino Quartullo: Piero References External links * 1989 films Commedia all'italiana Films directed by ... [...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] |
The General Of The Dead Army (film)
''The General of the Dead Army'' ( it, Il generale dell'armata morta) is a 1983 Italian drama film directed by Luciano Tovoli. It is based on the 1963 novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare of the same name. Cast * Marcello Mastroianni as General Ariosto * Anouk Aimée as Countess Betsy Mirafiore * Michel Piccoli as Benetandi * Gérard Klein as General Krotz * Sergio Castellitto as The Expert * Daniele Dublino as The Minister * Carmine De Padova as L'ordonnance * Roberto Miccoli as The Shepherd * Cosimo Calabrese as The President * Salvatore Buccolieri as The Old Man * Vincenza D'Angela as The Woman Other films based on the book *'' The Return of the Dead Army'' (Albanian: ''Kthimi i Ushtrise se Vdekur'') is a 1989 Albanian film starring Bujar Lako, based on the novel, directed by Dhimitër Anagnosti. *''Life and Nothing But'' (''La Vie et rien d’autre'') is a 1989 French film starring Philippe Noiret, based on the novel, directed by Bertrand Tavernier Bertrand Taver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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