Adriano Aprà (18 November 1940 – 15 April 2024) was an Italian film critic, film historian, screenwriter, director, festival curator, academic and occasional actor.

Life and career

Born in

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, Aprà graduated in law at Sapienza University, and made his debut as a film critic in 1960, collaborating with Edoardo Bruno's journal ''Filmcritica''.Dottorini, Daniele (2003).
Aprà, Adriano
. '' Enciclopedia del Cinema''.

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. Retrieved 19 April 2023. In 1966, he founded the magazine ''Cinema & film'' which he directed until 1970. He served as director of the Salso Film & TV Festival between 1977 and 1989 and of the Pesaro International Film Festival between 1990 and 1998, and was president of the

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between 1998 and 2002. He also collaborated with the

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, curating the 1981 retrospective dedicated to

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. In 1970, Aprà founded the Filmstudio

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and directed his first film, ''Olimpia agli amici'', which entered the

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. He wrote the screenplay of

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's '' The Mask'', and was actor in films directed by

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, Mario Schifano,

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, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. Between 2002 and 2008 he was professor of history and critic of cinema at the

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. Aprà died on 15 April 2024, at the age of 83.

Writings

* ''New American cinema. Il cinema indipendente americano degli anni Sessanta''. Ubulibri, 1986. ISBN 9788877480989. * ''Rosselliniana: bibliografia internazionale: dossier Paisà''. University of Michigan, 1987. * ''Poetiche delle nouvelles vagues: Without special title''. Marsilio, 1989. * ''Viaggio in Italia. Gli anni 60 al cinema''. Carte segrete, 1991. ISBN 9788885203082. * ''Il Cinema sudcoreano''. Marsilio, 1992. ISBN 9788831756983. * ''Moravia al / nel cinema''. Associazione Fondo Alberto Moravia, 1993. * ''Per non morire hollywoodiani. Notizie dal cinema di fine millennio''. Reset, 1999. ISBN 9788887591002. * ''Ermanno Olmi. Il cinema, i film, la televisione, la scuola''. Marsilio, 2003. ISBN 9788831782890. * ''Marco Bellocchio. Il cinema e i film''. Marsilio, 2005. ISBN 9788831787000. * ''Stelle e strisce. Viaggi nel cinema USA dal muto agli anni '60''. Falsopiano, 2005. ISBN 9788887011777. * ''In viaggio con Rossellini''. Falsopiano, 2006. ISBN 9788887011760. * ''Luigi Comencini. Il cinema e i film''. Marsilio, 2007. ISBN 9788831792646. * ''Alberto Lattuada. Il cinema e i film''. Marsilio, 2009. ISBN 9788831797771. * ''Bernardo Bertolucci. Il cinema e i film''. Marsilio, 2011. ISBN 9788831709651. * ''Breve ma veridica storia del documentario. Dal cinema del reale alla nonfiction''. Edizioni Falsopiano, 2017. ISBN 9788893041041. * ''Fuorinorma. La via neosperimentale del cinema italiano''. Marsilio, 2019. ISBN 9781909088337.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Apra, Adriano 1940 births 2024 deaths People from Rome Italian film critics Italian essayists Italian film historians Italian film directors Italian film actors Italian screenwriters Italian male essayists 20th-century Italian writers 20th-century Italian male writers 20th-century Italian essayists Sapienza University of Rome alumni Academic staff of the University of Rome Tor Vergata