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The Jokes (film)
''The Jokes'' ( it, Le barzellette) is a 2004 Italian anthology comedy film written and directed by Carlo Vanzina. Plot The film is divided into many small episodes: various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society (especially Rome) early 2000. These characters are ruled by the King of Jokes, in Paradise, which is commissioned by San Gennaro who promise them eternal life. Cast *Gigi Proietti as God / Waiter / Mexican Singer / Farmer / Lawyer and his client / Conductor * Enzo Salvi as Enzo / Sandro / Grandma / Client at Bar *Carlo Buccirosso as Mr. Rossi / Maniac *Fichi d'India as Cactuses / Aliens / Maz & Max / Mothers / Firefighters * Biagio Izzo as Doorman / Man in the sauna / Gay man / Italian prisoner / Mafiaman * Max Giusti as Mario * Vito as Traffic cop / Postman * Éva Henger * Marco Messeri as Surgeon * Chiara Noschese as Mario's wife * Simona Guarino as Rossi's wife *Lorenzo Flaherty as Nobleman *Paolo Seganti as Pirate * Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Vanzina
Carlo Vanzina (13 March 1951 – 8 July 2018) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. Vanzina was born in Rome, the son of Maria Teresa Nati and film director Stefano Vanzina and brother of Enrico Vanzina. In English-speaking countries, he is likely best known for his 1985 giallo '' Nothing Underneath'', starring Donald Pleasence and Renee Simonsen, which received a substantial home video release and aired on cable frequently. He would effectively remake his own film in 2011 as ''The Last Fashion Show'' with Richard E. Grant. Many of his projects were made for Italian television with English-speaking actors, and in turn these films received English-language home video releases in America. He frequently worked with models-turned-actresses such as Renee Simonsen, Carole Bouquet, Carol Alt, Lauren Hutton, and Elle Macpherson. Two of his films, '' Eccezzziunale... veramente'' (1982) and ''Vacanze di Natale'' (1983), were shown as part of a retrospective on I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fichi D'India
were an Italian Double act, comedy duo made up of Bruno Arena (12 January 1957 – 28 September 2022) and Max Cavallari (born 8 July 1963), both actors and cabaret artists. They started their artistic career in 1989 on the beaches of Cape Palinuro, Palinuro, between the Opuntia ficus-indica, Indian figs, and this inspired their artistic name as a duo. In the same year they had their first show at the club Fuori Pasto, a cabaret club in Varese. Since then they have performed both on radio and television, on channels including Italia 1, Canale 5, Italia 7, Radio DeeJay, Radio Deejay, R101 (Italy), R101. They also did theatrical performances, tours and movies. They own the club Arlecchino, in Vedano Olona, where many cabaret artists from Milan and Varese became famous. Arena died on 28 September 2022, at the age of 65. References External links * {{Official website Italian actors Italian comedians Italian comedy duos Theatre characters introduced in 1989 Comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Carlo Vanzina
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Comedy Films
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2004 Films
2004 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. ''Shrek 2'' was the year's top-grossing film, and '' Million Dollar Baby'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy described 2004 as "a banner year for actors, particularly men." He went on to emphasize, "I can't think of another year in which there were so many good performances, in every genre. It was a year in which we saw the entire spectrum of demographics displayed on the big screen, from vet actors such as Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, to seniors such as Pacino, De Niro, and Hoffman, to newcomers such as Topher Grace. As always, though, the center of the male acting pyramid is occupied by actors in their forties and fifties, such as Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Liam Neeson, Kevin Kline, Don Cheadle, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Comedy Films
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Italian Films Of 2004
A list of films produced in Italy in 2004 (see 2004 in film): See also *2004 in Italian television External linksItalian films of 2004 at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian Films Of 2004 Lists of Italian films by year, 2004 2004 in Italian cinema, Films Lists of 2004 films by country or language, Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianfranco Barra
Gianfranco Barra (born 5 April 1940) is an Italian film, television and stage actor. He has appeared in more than 80 films. Born in Rome, Barra studied at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts in his hometown. First active on stage, he made his film debut in 1968. He is also active on television, in commercials, and as a playwright. Selected filmography * ''Avanti!'' (1972) * ''The Seduction of Mimi'' (1972) * '' Dirty Weekend'' (1973) * '' Bread and Chocolate'' (1973) * ''Black Holiday'' (1973) * '' Policewoman'' (1974) * ''Il lumacone'' (1974) * ''Playing the Field'' (1974) * '' The Mazurka of the Baron, the Saint and the Early Fig Tree'' (1975) * '' La polizia accusa: il Servizio Segreto uccide'' (1975) * ''The Suspicious Death of a Minor'' (1975) * ''La professoressa di scienze naturali'' (1976) * ''Double Murder'' (1977) * ''The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn'' (1977) * ''I nuovi mostri'' (1977) * ''L'altra metà del cielo'' (1977) * ''Goodnight, Ladies and Gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Seganti
Paolo Seganti (born 20 May 1964 in Rovereto, Trentino, Italy), is an Italian actor and model, known for playing Damian Grimaldi in the CBS television soap opera ''As the World Turns''. Career Seganti is known for his portrayal of Damian Grimaldi on the American daytime soap opera ''As the World Turns''. He played the role from 1993 to 1997, returning briefly in 2001, 2006, and from 2009 to 2010. In 2013, he appeared on the soap opera ''One Life to Live'' as Arturo Bandini. In 1996, Seganti made his prime time television debut in the sitcom ''The Nanny''. That same year he debuted on the big screen with a small role in ''Everyone Says I Love You'', directed by Woody Allen. In Italy, he appeared in ''Ultimo'' (1998), directed by Stefano Reali; ''Caraibi'' (1999), directed by Lamberto Bava; ''Tea with Mussolini'' (1999), directed by Franco Zeffirelli; ''Le Stagioni del Cuore'' (2003), directed by Antonio Luigi Grimaldi; and the TV miniseries ''Ho sposato un calciatore'' (2005), d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Flaherty
Lorenzo Flaherty (born 24 November 1967) is an Italian actor. He is the son of an Irish father and an Italian mother. He has appeared in more than forty films since 1986. Selected filmography References External links * 1967 births Living people Italian male film actors Italian people of Irish descent {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Messeri
Marco Messeri (born 15 December 1948) is an Italian actor, comedian, stage director, singer-songwriter and voice actor. Life and career Born in Livorno, Messeri studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and acting at the drama school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. He debuted on stage in 1969, in Paolo Poli's ''Il Brasile''. After several supporting roles, in 1987 he debuted in a leading role in Carlo Mazzacurati's '' Notte italiana'', winning a Globo d'oro for best new actor. The same year, he received a Ciak d'oro for best supporting actor thanks to his performance in Massimo Troisi's ''Le vie del Signore sono finite''. In 1995 he won a Nastro d'Argento for best supporting actor for his performance in Francesca Archibugi's ''Con gli occhi chiusi''. Messeri is also a singer-songwriter and composer of songs, usually used in his stage works. Selected filmography * '' La locandiera'' (1980) * '' I'm Starting from Three'' (1981) * ''Il paramedico'' (1982) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Buccirosso
Carlo Buccirosso (born 7 July 1954) is an Italian actor, theatre director and playwright. As an actor, he's best known for his roles in comedy films, especially the ones by Vincenzo Salemme and Carlo Vanzina, in which he's often typecast as a stereotypical lower middle-class Neapolitan man. For his performance as corrupt politician Paolo Cirino Pomicino in Paolo Sorrentino's ''Il Divo'' (2008) he received critical praise and was nominated to David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor. Buccirosso also appeared in Sorrentino's ''The Great Beauty'' (2013) and in popular TV series '' Un ciclone in famiglia'' (2006—2008) as Peppino Esposito. In 2014, he won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in crime-comedy ''Song'e Napule'' (2013). The following year, he won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor The David di Donatello Award for Best Supporting Actor ( it, David di Donatello per il migliore attore non protagonista) is a film award pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
