Callisto Cosulich (7 July 1922 – 6 June 2015) was an Italian film critic, author, journalist and screenwriter. Born in

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, Cosulich studied marine engineering at the

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and during the

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, as a reserve officer in the Navy, he took care of film screenings aboard a cruiser. Come back in his hometown, he began to work as a film critic for the local newspaper ''Giornale di Trieste''. In 1947 he co-founded the Federation of Italian film clubs (FICC), becoming its secretary in 1950. Moved to Rome, Cosulich collaborated as a film critic with a large number of publications, and cured for

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television several monographic film cycles about

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, Josef von Sternberg,

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and

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. He was also active as a screenwriter for a number of films, notably

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's ''

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''. He was co-founder, with Enrico Rossetti, of the first Italian arthouse cinema, the Quirinetta Cinema in Rome, which significantly contributed to the spread of

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s in Italy. Cosulich was member of the jury at the

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and at the

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. He died on 6 June 2015.Dead Callisto Cosulich, master of film criticism
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cosulich, Callisto 1922 births 2015 deaths Writers from Trieste Italian film critics Italian journalists Italian male journalists Italian screenwriters Italian television writers University of Genoa alumni Italian male screenwriters Male television writers