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Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Giovanna Mezzogiorno (; born 9 November 1974) is an Italian theatre and film actress. Early life Mezzogiorno was born in Rome, 9 November 1974, a daughter of actors Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Sacchi. She grew up watching her parents on set. At first, she wanted to become a ballerina, and she studied dancing for 13 years. After her father's death when she was 19, Mezzogiorno moved to Paris, where she attended the stages by Arianne Mnouchkine and worked for two years at the Peter Brook Workshop. She made her stage debut with the role of Ofelia in ''Qui est là'', based on Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''. The play toured various European cities. She received the Premio Coppola-Prati 1996, the jury was presided over by theatre critic Franco Quadri. One year later, she made her film debut in ''Il viaggio della sposa'' (The Bride's Journey), written by and starring Sergio Rubini. Mezzogiorno was awarded the Targa d'Argento as the New Talent in Italian Cinema, she was also given the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Cannes Film Festival
The 63rd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 2010, in Cannes, France. The Cannes Film Festival, hailed as being one of the most recognized and prestigious film festivals worldwide, was founded in 1946. It consists of having films screened in and out of competition during the festival; films screened in competition compete for the Palme d'Or award. The award in 2010 was won by '' Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'', a Thai film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This was determined by the festival's jury members who reviewed films screened in competition. American film director Tim Burton was the president of the jury for the international competition, and other members of the jury for that competition included actors, screenwriters and composers, such as Kate Beckinsale, Emmanuel Carrère, Benicio del Toro, and Alexandre Desplat. Other categories for films screened in competition that have their own separate juries for other awards are for Short Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonello Grimaldi
Antonio Luigi Grimaldi, known as Antonello Grimaldi (born 14 August 1955) is an Italian actor, film director, film and television director, and screenwriter. Biography Grimaldi was born on 14 August 1955 in Sassari on the island of Sardinia in Italy. After receiving his Laurea in law in 1981, he moved to Rome and attended the Gaumont School of Cinema, founded by producer Renzo Rossellini (producer), Renzo Rossellini. He later taught music history at the Accademia di Belle Arti ( en, Academy of Fine Arts) in Sassari and film direction at the Scuola Golden in Turin. Career in film Grimaldi's directorial debut came in 1985 with ''Juke box''. In 1987, he was assistant director to Giuseppe Piccioni for the feature film ''Il Grande Blek (film), Il Grande Blek'', starring Sergio Rubini and Francesca Neri. In 1997, Grimaldi appeared in ''Nirvana (1997 film), Nirvana'', directed by Gabriele Salvatores. He then starred in two films directed by Gabriele Muccino: ''Ecco fatto'' (1998) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabio Conversi
Fabio is a given name descended from Latin ''Fabius'' and very popular in Italy and Latin America (due to Italian migration). Its English equivalent is Fabian. The name is written without an accent in Italian and Spanish, but is usually accented in Portuguese as ''Fábio'' (with the diminutive Fabinho or Fabiano). The presence or absence of the written accent does not affect pronunciation. First name A–K * Fabio (DJ), drum-and-bass DJ and producer from the UK * Fabio Armiliato (born 1956), Italian operatic tenor * Fábio Aurélio (born 1979), Brazilian footballer * Fábio Bahia (Fábio Júnior Nascimento Santana, born 1983), currently playing for Goiás * Fabio Bencivenga, Italian water polo player * Jud "Fabio" Birza, winner of ''Survivor: Nicaragua'' * Fabio Borini, Italian footballer * Fábio Camilo de Brito (Nenê, born 1975), currently playing for Coritiba Foot Ball Club * Fabio Cannavaro, former captain of the Italy national team * Fabio Capello, Italian manager of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángela Molina
Ángela Molina Tejedor (born 5 October 1955) is a Spanish actress. Aside from her performances in Spanish films, she has starred in multiple international productions, particularly in a number of Italian films and television series. Family Molina was born in Madrid on 5 October 1955, the daughter of singer Antonio Molina and Ángela Tejedor. Her siblings , Mónica and are also actors. Another of her siblings, , is a composer. Career She studied dance and theatre art in the Escuela Superior de Madrid. She made her film debut in 1975 with César Fernández Ardavín's ''No matarás''. Another early major credit is her performance as Rosa (a sexually provocative woman and unwed mother) in '' Black Brood'' (1977), a film portraying fascist violence in post-Francoist Spain. She rose to international prominence after starring in Luis Buñuel's last film ''That Obscure Object of Desire'' (1977). She has worked with such directors as Luis Buñuel, the Taviani brothers, Jaime Cháv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premio Flaiano
The Flaiano Prizes ( it, Premi Flaiano) are a set of Italian international awards recognizing achievements in the fields of creative writing, cinema, theater and radio-television. Established to honour the Italian author and screenwriter Ennio Flaiano (1910-1972), the prizes have been awarded annually since 1974 at the ''Teatro Monumentale Gabriele D'Annunzio'' in Pescara, Flaiano's hometown in Abruzzo, as well as D'Annunzio's. Since 2001 the cinema section has become a true film festival, consisting of several events and film selections presented in cinemas around the town and open to the general public. The Flaiano Film Festival is one of Italy's International Film Festivals. The Festival lasts one month (between June and July of each year), with the presentation of films in competition and out of competition, allowing the participation of thousands of spectators. The festival is enriched by several smaller festivals each year and is divided into several sections for which prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefania Sandrelli
Stefania Sandrelli (born 5 June 1946) is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the ''commedia all'Italiana'', starting from the 1960s. She was 14 years old when she starred in '' Divorce Italian Style'' as Angela, the cousin and love interest of Ferdinando, played by Marcello Mastroianni. Early life Sandrelli was born in Viareggio, Tuscany, into a middle-class family, the daughter of Florida and Otello Sandrelli (who died when she was eight years old), owners of a pension in Viareggio. As a girl, Sandrelli studied ballet and learned to play the accordion. Sandrelli had a brother, Sergio, seven years older, who had a successful music career and died in 2013. Career In 1960, Sandrelli won the Miss Cinema Viareggio beauty contest, then she was the cover girl of the magazine ''Le Ore'', and had the first opportunities to make films, appearing, among others, in Luciano Salce's ''Il federale''. Her film career was launched by Pietro Germi with '' Divorce Italian Style'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriele Muccino
Gabriele Muccino (; born 20 May 1967) is an Italian film director. He has worked his way from making short films only aired on Italian television to become a well-known and successful American filmmaker. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films. Muccino has directed 12 films and is best known for his first American film '' The Pursuit of Happyness'', starring Will Smith. Muccino has been nominated for and won several awards including the David di Donatello Award for Best Director in 2001 for his film '' The Last Kiss''. Life and career Born in Rome, Gabriele Muccino started his studies at Sapienza University of Rome in Italian literature but dropped out of University to pursue a career as a director. His first on-set film experience was as a volunteer director's assistant. This inspired his passion for filmmaking and led him to take courses in screenwriting and enroll in a directing program at Rome's Experimental Cinematography I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Héctor Alterio
Héctor Benjamín Alterio Onorato (born 21 September 1929) is an Argentine theatre, film and television actor, well known both in Argentina and Spain. Biography Alterio's theatre debut came in 1948 as the lead in ''Cómo suicidarse en primavera'' ("How to commit suicide in spring"). After finishing drama school, he created the ''Nuevo Teatro'' ("New Theatre") company in 1950, where he worked until 1968 and helped change the Argentine theatrical scene of the 1960s. He also worked in the Argentine cinema. His debut on the silver screen took place in Alfredo Mathé's ''Todo sol es amargo'' (''Every sun is bitter'') in 1965. He then participated in many of the most important Argentine movies of the 1970s, including ''La Patagonia rebelde'' (''The Rebel Patagonia''), which was awarded a Silver Bear at the 24th Berlin International Film Festival. His voice was used in ''Ya es tiempo de violencia'' (1969), an anonymous film about the ''Cordobazo'' riots which took place the same ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabio Carpi
Fabio Carpi (19 January 1925 – 26 December 2018) was an Italian director, screenwriter, and author. Life and career Born in Milan, in the 1940s Carpi began his career as a film critic for the newspapers ''Libera Stampa'' and ''L'Unità''. In 1951 he moved to Brasil, where he started collaborating to some screenplays. Returned in Italy in 1954, until 1971 he was active as a screenwriter for notable directors such as Antonio Pietrangeli, Dino Risi and Vittorio De Seta. In 1971 he won a Nastro d'Argento for the screenplay of Nelo Risi's '' Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl''. Starting from 1957 he was also a critically acclaimed novelist and essayist. His novel ''Patchwork'' won the Bagutta Prize in 1998. After a 1968 documentary short, in 1972 Carpi made his feature film debut with the drama ''Corpo d'amore''. His films were referred to as "figuratively accurate, literary, often metaphorical and difficult to understand", "deep explorations of the human psyche". Selected film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Malkovich
John Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 films, including ''The Killing Fields'' (1984), '' Empire of the Sun'' (1987), '' Dangerous Liaisons'' (1988), '' Of Mice and Men'' (1992), ''In the Line of Fire'' (1993), '' Mulholland Falls'' (1996), '' Con Air'' (1997), '' Rounders'' (1998), ''Being John Malkovich'' (1999), '' The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc'' (1999), '' Shadow of the Vampire'' (2000), ''Ripley's Game'' (2002), ''Johnny English'' (2003), ''Burn After Reading'' (2008), '' Red'' (2010), '' Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' (2011), ''Warm Bodies'' (2013), ''Cesar Chavez'' (2014), '' Bird Box'' (2018), and ''Velvet Buzzsaw'' (2019). He has also produced films such as '' Ghost World'' (2001), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ (, , ; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, filmmaker, businessman and vineyard owner since 1989 who is one of the most prolific thespians in film history having completed over 250 films since 1967 almost exclusively as a lead. Depardieu has worked with over 150 film directors whose most notable collaborations include Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Maurice Pialat, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Ridley Scott and Bernardo Bertolucci. He is the second highest grossing actor in the history of French Cinema behind Louis de Funès. As of January 2022, his body of work also include countless television productions, 18 theatre plays, 16 records and 9 books. He is mostly known as a character actor and for having portrayed numerous leading historical and fictitious figures of the Western world including Georges Danton, Joseph Stalin, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Rodin, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean Valjean, Edmond Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josée Dayan
Josée Dayan (born 6 October 1943 in Toulouse, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Life Dayan grew up in Algiers, Algeria, where her father Albert Dagnant, who came from a Jewish family, worked as a television director; her grandmother was the owner of a cinema. Since 1974 she directed mainly movies for television. In 1979, under her direction, a documentary about Simone de Beauvoir appeared. Her most successful works are the 1998 TV mini-series ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' with Gérard Depardieu in the lead role, and the 2002 mini-series ''Les Misérables'' with Depardieu and John Malkovich. Then there is '' Balzac: A Passionate Life'' (1999) and '' Cet amour-là'' (2001), both with Jeanne Moreau, and '' Raspoutine'' (2011) with Depardieu. A major success was '' Les Liaisons dangereuses'' (2003) with Catherine Deneuve Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve (, , ), is a French actress as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
