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Joe D'Amato
Aristide Massaccesi (15 December 1936 – 23 January 1999), known professionally as Joe D'Amato, was an Italian film director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter who worked in many genres (western (genre), westerns, ''Commedia sexy all'italiana, decamerotici'', Sword-and-sandal, peplum, war films, swashbuckler film, swashbuckler, Comedy film, comedy, Fantasy film, fantasy, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, postapocalyptic film, and erotic thriller) but is best known for his horror film, horror, Sex in film, erotic and Pornographic film, adult films. D'Amato worked in the 1950s as Film crew, electric and set photographer, in the 1960s as camera operator, and from 1969 onwards as cinematographer. Starting in 1972, he directed and co-directed around 200 films under numerous pseudonyms, regularly acting as cinematographer as well. Starting in the early 1980s, D'Amato produced many of his own and other directors' genre films through the companies he founded or co-foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Cannes Film Festival
The 49th Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 to 20 May 1996. American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola served as jury president for the main competition. Sabine Azéma hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. British filmmaker Mike Leigh won the '' Palme d'Or'', the festival's top prize, for the drama film '' Secrets & Lies''. The festival opened with '' Ridicule'' by Patrice Leconte, and closed with '' Flirting with Disaster'' by David O. Russell. Juries Main competition *Francis Ford Coppola, American filmmaker - Jury President * Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer *Nathalie Baye, French actress * Henry Chapier, French journalist, presenter and director *Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker * Eiko Ishioka, Japanese artist and costume designer * Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Polish screenwriter * Greta Scacchi, Italian actress * Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer * Trần Anh Hùng, Vietnamese-French filmmaker ''Camera d'Or'' * Françoise Fabian, French actress - Jury President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Crew
A film crew is a group of people, hired by a production company, for the purpose of Filmmaking, producing a film or motion picture. The crew is distinguished from the Ensemble cast, cast, as the cast are understood to be the actors who appear in front of the camera or Voice acting, provide voices for characters in the film. The crew is also separate from the Film producer, producers, as the producers are the ones who own a portion of either the film studio or the film's Intellectual property#Rights, intellectual property rights. A film crew is divided into different departments, each of which specializes in a specific aspect of the Filmmaking#Production, production. Film crew positions have evolved over the years, spurred by technological change, but many traditional jobs date from the early 20th century and are common across jurisdictions and filmmaking cultures. Motion picture projects have three discrete stages: development, production, and distribution. Within the producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Still Photographer
A unit still photographer (or simply still photographer) creates still photos specifically for use in publicity and marketing of feature films and television productions. In addition to creating photographs for the promotion of a film, the still photographer contributes daily to the filming process by creating set stills (or plate shots). With these, the photographer is careful to record all details of the cast wardrobe, set appearance and background. Cornel Lucas, a pioneer of film portraiture in the 1940s and 1950s, was the first still photographer to be awarded a BAFTA in 1998, for work with the British Film Industry. Uses in the industry Due to their relatively low quality, it is not practical to use individual frames from film or recorded video material for still photographs. High resolution images are needed for theatrical release posters, DVD box artworks, official website photos, billboards, bus stop adverts, point-of-purchase displays, key art image sets released t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenio Bava
Eugenio Bava (4 June 1886, Italy – 23 October 1966, Rome, Italy) was an Italian film cinematographer. His son was film director Mario Bava and his grandson is Italian horror film director Lamberto Bava. Selected filmography * ''Cabiria ''Cabiria'' is a 1914 Italian Epic film, epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin. The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). It follows the story o ...'' (1914) * '' Black Shirt'' (1933) References External links * Mario and Eugenio Bava Biographyat Images Journal 1886 births 1966 deaths Italian cinematographers {{Italy-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movie Camera
A movie camera (also known as a film camera and cine-camera) is a type of photographic camera that rapidly takes a sequence of photographs, either onto film stock or an image sensor, in order to produce a moving image to display on a screen. In contrast to the still camera, which captures a single image at a time, the movie camera takes a series of images by way of an intermittent mechanism or by electronic means; each image is a ''frame'' of film or video. The frames are projected through a movie projector or a video projector at a specific frame rate (number of frames per second) to show the moving picture. When projected at a high enough frame rate (24 frames per second or more), the persistence of vision allows the eyes and brain of the viewer to merge the separate frames into a continuous moving picture. History A forerunner to the movie camera was the machine invented by Francis Ronalds at the Kew Observatory in 1845. A photosensitive surface was drawn slowly past the aper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinecittà
Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City) is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were constructed during the Fascist era as part of a plan to revive the Italian film industry and to compete with Hollywood. Filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Mel Gibson and Luca Guadagnino have worked at Cinecittà. More than 3,000 movies have been filmed there, of which 90 received an Academy Award nomination and 47 of these won it. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made there led to Rome being dubbed " Hollywood on the Tiber." History The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini, his son Vittorio, and his head of cinema Luigi Freddi under the slogan "''Il cinema è l'arma più forte''" ("Cinema is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istituto Luce
The Istituto Luce ("Light Institute", with ''Luce'' being the acronym for ''L'Unione Cinematografica Educativa'', i.e. "The Educational Film Union") was Italy’s public film agency corporation, created in 1924 during the Fascist era. The institute, based in Rome, was involved in the production and distribution of films and documentaries intended for being screened in cinemas. Famous for having been a powerful propaganda tool of the fascist regime, it is considered as the oldest public institution devoted to production and distribution of cinematographic materials for Didactic method, didactic and informative purposes in the world. History and profile Istituto Luce was founded in 1924 as a stock company, and then Benito Mussolini through the Royal Decree Law no. 1985 of 5 November 1925 ruled it as non-profit "moral institution" governed by public law.Daniela Manetti. ''Un'arma poderosissima. Industria cinematografica e Stato durante il fascismo 1922–1943''. FrancoAngeli, 2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absurd (film)
''Absurd'' (Italian: ''Rosso Sangue'', literal translation: ''Blood Red''; also known as ''Anthropophagus 2'', ''Zombie 6: Monster Hunter'', ''Horrible'', and ''The Grim Reaper 2'') is a 1981 English-language Italian slasher film directed, lensed, and co-produced by Joe D'Amato and starring George Eastman, who also wrote the story and screenplay. Plot Mikos Stenopolis is a man who was experimented on in a church-sanctioned scientific experiment that gave him healing powers but inadvertently drove him insane. The Vatican priest who helped create him pursues the homicidal Mikos to a small American town, attempting to kill him by impaling him on a set of railings that disembowel him. Still, he revives later in a local hospital. After brutally murdering a nurse, the madman escapes and goes on a killing spree. The priest informs the hospital and authorities that the only way to kill Mikos is to "destroy the cerebral mass." While attacking a motorcyclist after escaping from the hospi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antropophagus
''Antropophagus'' (also known as ''Anthropophagus: The Beast'', ''The Savage Island'', and ''The Grim Reaper'') is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Joe D'Amato, co-written by D'Amato and George Eastman, and starring Tisa Farrow, Zora Kerova, Saverio Vallone, Serena Grandi, Margaret Mazzantini, Mark Bodin, and Eastman, who portrays a cannibal stalking tourists on a remote island. ''Antropophagus'' has been described as having "a noted place in the annals of the escalation of gore". The film has gained cult status- if only "amongst fringe horror video audiences". It has been argued that the reason for its cult status lies in its theme of cannibalism, hence "consumption of humans", which lends itself to cult reception. The scene in which the titular man eater strangles a pregnant woman, tears out the fetus from her womb and bites into it, made it become one of the infamous " video nasties" that was prosecuted in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, and the "controversy gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond The Darkness (film)
''Beyond the Darkness'' () is a 1979 Italian exploitation horror film directed by Joe D'Amato. It follows Francesco Koch (Kieran Canter), an orphaned taxidermist who inherits a house in the woods where he lives with his housekeeper Iris (Franca Stoppi), who is determined to become the new owner. After Iris kills his girlfriend Anna ( Cinzia Monreale) with a voodoo curse, Francesco steals her corpse from the local cemetery. He then commits murders connected to his enduring passion for her. A local undertaker (Sam Modesto) investigates and meets Teodora (also Monreale), Anna's twin sister. Filmed in two weeks in South Tyrol, ''Beyond the Darkness'' is a remake of the 1966 film '' The Third Eye''. It was released in Italy to what Italian film historian Roberto Curti described as relatively poor box office, and was re-released in Italy in 1987 as ''In quella casa Buio omega'' to associate it with the ''La casa'' film series. Plot Since his parents died in a car accident nine years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo, formerly known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the List of metropolitan areas in the Caribbean, largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. the Distrito Nacional, city center had a population of 1,029,110 while its Metropolitan area, the Greater Santo Domingo, had a population of 4,274,651. The city is coterminous with the boundaries of the Distrito Nacional (D.N.), itself bordered on three sides by Santo Domingo Province. Santo Domingo was founded in 1496 by the Spanish Empire and is the oldest continuously inhabited European colonization of the Americas, European settlement in the Americas. It was the first seat of Spanish colonial rule in the New World, the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo is the site of the first university, cathedral, castle, monastery, and fortress in the New World. The city's Ciudad Colonial (Santo Domingo), Colonial Zone was declared as a World Herit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porno Holocaust
''Porno Holocaust'' is a 1981 Italian sexploitation horror film directed and lensed by Joe D'Amato and written by Tito Carpi under the pseudonym "Tom Salina". The assistant director was Donatella Donati. Shot in and around Santo Domingo, it was one of the first cinematically released Italian films containing hardcore pornography. Quotations are translated from the Italian original. The title has been seen as a "riff" on ''Cannibal Holocaust''. Plot A group of scientists is taken to a secluded island where nuclear weapons testing occurred in 1958, in order to investigate sightings of mutated animals, and allegations of a monster. On the island, overgrown crabs are discovered, and the researchers and their ship's crew are stalked and spied on by an unseen being. After having sex with his wife, Professor Keller goes for a swim, and is drowned by the monster, which then rapes and kills Keller's wife. At the main camp, the ship's two crew members, Pierre and Jacques, go off to colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
