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Italian Directors
The following is a list of film directors from Italy. A *Giuseppe Adami * Antonio Albanese * Marcello Albani *Giorgio Albertazzi * Adalberto Albertini *Filoteo Alberini *Goffredo Alessandrini * Ottavio Alessi * Mario Almirante *Silvio Amadio *Giuseppe Amato *Arturo Ambrosio *Gianni Amelio *Mario Amendola *Tony Amendola * Roberto Amoroso *Franco Amurri *Roberto Andò * Raffaele Andreassi *Marcello Andrei * Alfredo Angeli *Edoardo Anton * Michelangelo Antonioni * Renzo Arbore *Francesca Archibugi *Asia Argento * Dario Argento *Lello Arena *Ovidio Gabriele Assonitis * Antonio Attanasio *Pupi Avati B *Gianfranco Baldanello *Ferdinando Baldi *Gian Vittorio Baldi * Marcello Baldi * Piero Ballerini * Luca Barbareschi * Umberto Barbaro *Enzo Barboni *Francesco Barilli * Ivo Barnabò Micheli * Carlo Barsotti * Elio Bartolini *Andrea Barzini * Maria Basaglia * Giulio Base *Franco Battiato * Giacomo Battiato *Luigi Batzella * Lamberto Bava *Mario Bava * Camillo Bazzoni * Luigi Bazzoni * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Adami
Giuseppe Adami (4 February 187812 October 1946) was an Italian librettist, playwright and music critic, he was best known for his collaboration with Giacomo Puccini on the operas ''La rondine'' (1917), ''Il tabarro'' (1918) and ''Turandot'' (1926). Works of plays Adami also wrote several plays, such as ''I fioi di Goldoni'', ''Una capanna e il tuo cuore'' (1913), ''Capelli bianchi'' (1915), ''Felicità Colombo'' (1935) and ''Nonna Felicità'' (1936). The latter was adapted into a film in 1938 by director Mario Mattoli. Early life, training and biography Adami was born in Verona. He graduated at the University of Padua in Law but dedicated his career as a writer, theatre playwright, and then music critic. After the death of Puccini, Adami published a collection of the composer's letters in ''Epistolario'' (1928). He also published his personal recollections; ''Giulio Ricordi e i suoi musicisti'' (1933); ''Giacomo Puccini'' (1935) (this was one of the earliest biographies of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Andò
Roberto Andò (born 11 January 1959) is an Italian director, screenwriter, playwright and author. Life and career Born in Palermo, Andò debuted as assistant director, working with Francis Ford Coppola, Federico Fellini, Michael Cimino and Francesco Rosi, among others.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . In 1986 he debuted on stage directing '' La foresta-radice- labirinto'', a puppet theater work based on an Italo Calvino's original story and with puppets drawn by Renato Guttuso. After several documentary films, Andò made his feature debut film in 2000, with '' Il manoscritto del Principe'', produced by Giuseppe Tornatore. His debut novel, ''Il trono vuoto'', won the Campiello prize for best first work; from the novel he derived the film ''Viva la libertà'', with whom he won the David di Donatello for Best Script and the Nastro d'Argento The Nastro d'Argento, also known by its translated name Silver Ribbon, is an Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pupi Avati
Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati (born 3 November 1938), is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known to horror film fans for his two giallo masterpieces, ''The House with Laughing Windows'' (1976) and '' Zeder'' (1983). Early life and career Pupi Avati was born in Bologna in 1938. After attending school and studying Political Science at the University of Florence, he started working at a frozen food company. At the same time, he developed a passion for jazz, becoming a proficient clarinetist. In the second half of the 1950s, he formed and played in the Doctor Dixie Jazz Band, of which Lucio Dalla was also a member. Although he initially intended to be a professional musician, Avati felt he lacked the necessary talent. In the mid-1960s, he decided to dedicate himself to cinema after seeing Federico Fellini's '' 8½'' and its portrait of the role of a director. Avati's passion for music, as well as his love for his hometown, which was the settin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Attanasio
Antonio Attanasio (2 January 1950 – 28 December 1982) was an Italian swimmer. He competed in the 100 m butterfly and 4×100 m medley relay events at the 1968 Olympics, but failed to reach the finals. He died aged 32 in a traffic accident. References 1950 births 1982 deaths Italian male butterfly swimmers Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Italy Road incident deaths in Italy Swimmers from Naples {{Italy-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovidio Gabriele Assonitis
Ovidio Gabriel Assonitis (born January 18, 1943) is an Egyptian-born Greco-Italian entertainment executive, film producer, screenwriter, and director best known for his numerous B-horror films including ''Beyond the Door'', ''Tentacles,'' '' The Visitor'', and '' Piranha II: The Spawning.'' Early life and career In the mid-1960s, Assonitis began an extensive distribution network company in the Far East and in the 10-year period distributed more than 900 filmsAA. VV. ''Beyond the Screen. Il cinema di Ovidio G. Assonitis''. "Nocturno dossier" N. 82, May 2009, Cinemabis. from offices in Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, and Indonesia. His former partners and associates include HRH Prince Anusom Yukol (brother of the King of Thailand), John Litton (President of Mever Films, theater owner and former President of the Philippines Film Festival), the Shaw Brothers, Alexander Tedja, and Kong Cho Yee (of Edko Films). Independent producing career By the late 1960s, Assonitis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lello Arena
Raffaele "Lello" Arena (born 1 November 1953) is an Italian actor and comics writer. He was also an occasional film director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Naples as Raffaele Arena, he was the son of two workers in a tobacco factory. In 1969, at a very young age, Arena formed the cabaret ensamble "La Smorfia" together with Massimo Troisi and Enzo Decaro. In 1978 and 1979, the group appeared in two RAI variety shows (''Non stop'' and ''Luna Park'') obtaining a great success. The group disbanded in 1980 and for some time Arena kept on collaborating with his friend Troisi, starring in his three first films. He won a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Troisi's ''Scusate il ritardo''. Later Arena focused his career on television, appearing in a large number of variety shows; he occasionally came back to cinema, even making his debut as a director in 1989 with ''Chiari di luna''. He is also active on stage.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dario Argento
Dario Argento (; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and critic. His influential work in the horror genre during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the subgenre known as ''giallo'', has led him to being referred to as the "Master of the Thrill" and the "Master of Horror". His films as director include his "Animal Trilogy", consisting of '' The Bird with the Crystal Plumage'' (1970), ''The Cat o' Nine Tails'' (1971) and ''Four Flies on Grey Velvet'' (1971); his " Three Mothers" trilogy, consisting of '' Suspiria'' (1977), '' Inferno'' (1980) and '' The Mother of Tears'' (2007); and his stand-alone films ''Deep Red'' (1975), '' Tenebrae'' (1982), '' Phenomena'' (1985) and ''Opera'' (1987). He co-wrote the screenplay for Sergio Leone's '' Once Upon a Time in the West'' (1968) and served as George A. Romero's script consultant on '' Dawn of the Dead'' (1978), for which he also composed the soundtrack with his long-time collaborators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia Argento
Asia Argento (; born Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento; 20 September 1975) is an Italian actress and filmmaker. The daughter of filmmaker Dario Argento, she has had roles in several of her father's features and achieved mainstream success with appearances in '' XXX'' (2002), '' Land of the Dead'' (2005) and '' Marie Antoinette'' (2006). Her other notable acting credits include '' Queen Margot'' (1994), '' Let's Not Keep in Touch'' (1994), '' Traveling Companion'' (1996), '' Last Days'' (2005) and ''Islands'' (2011). Argento is the recipient of several accolades, including two David di Donatello awards for Best Actress and three Italian Golden Globes. Her directorial credits include '' The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things'' (2004) and '' Misunderstood'' (2014). After the Weinstein scandal in 2017, she became a leader of the " #MeToo" movement. In August 2018, ''The New York Times'' detailed allegations that Argento sexually assaulted actor Jimmy Bennett in 2013, when he wa ... [...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 (film), L'estate sta finendo'' in 1987. Her long film de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renzo Arbore
Lorenzo Giovanni "Renzo" Arbore (; born 24 June 1937) is an Italian television host, singer, actor and film director. Career Arbore became nationally recognized as radio anchor man, together with Gianni Boncompagni, in the late 1960s, with shows such as ''Bandiera gialla ''(1965), ''Per voi giovani ''(1967), ''Alto Gradimento ''(1970), increasingly marked by their ironical approach which later became one of their brands. He debuted in Italian television with ''Speciale per voi ''(1969–1970), which included debates about singers of that age. His first great TV success was the surreal '' L'altra domenica ''("The Other Sunday", 1976–1979), in which he launched numerous comedians including Mario Marenco, Isabella Rossellini and Roberto Benigni. Also very successful were ''Quelli della notte ''(1985), with Nino Frassica, Riccardo Pazzaglia, Maurizio Ferrini, and Roberto D'Agostino, and ''Indietro tutta!''(1988), again with Frassica, which established Arbore as one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962)—as well as the English-language film '' Blow-up'' (1966), all considered masterpieces of world cinema. His films have been described as "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" that feature elusive plots, striking visual composition, and a preoccupation with modern landscapes. His work substantially influenced subsequent art cinema. Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, being the only director to have won the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion, the Golden Bear and the Golden Leopard. Early life Antonioni was born into a prosperous family of landowners in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, in northern Italy. He was the son of Elisabetta ( née Roncagli) and Ismaele Antonioni. The director explained to Italian f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edoardo Anton
Edoardo Anton (7 January 1910 - 11 May 1986) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. Background Born in Rome as Edoardo Antonelli, Anton was the son of the playwright and journalist Luigi Antonelli. He entered the cinema industry in mid-thirties and soon became a prolific screenwriter specialized in comedy films. His work as filmmaker is marginal, mainly confined to the co-direction of a few international co-productions; the only work entirely attributable to him is '' Il lupo della frontiera''. Selected filmography Writer Director References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Anton, Edoardo 1910 births 1986 deaths 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian film directors Writers from Rome Italian male screenwriters 20th-century Italian male writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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