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Alessandro Lai
Alessandro Lai (born 22 January 1970) is an Italian costume designer. Life and career Born in Cagliari, Lai graduated in letters from the University of Cagliari with a thesis about the reletionship between Piero Tosi and Luchino Visconti; later he moved to Rome, where he became a pupil of Tosi at Sartoria Tirelli. He made his professional debut as assistant of Maurizio Millenotti in Giuseppe Tornatore's ''The Legend of 1900''. He debuted as custume designer in 2000, in Giorgio Treves' '' Rosa and Cornelia''. Starting with '' Saturn in Opposition,'' Lai began a long professional association with director Ferzan Özpetek, and among the directors with whom he has collaborated are Franco Zeffirelli, Tinto Brass, Liliana Cavani, Francesca Archibugi. He also worked on television, mostly in Lux Vide productions such as ''Medici'' and ''Barabbas'', and on stage, where he collaborated with Chiara and Riccardo Muti. During his career he was awarded two Nastro d'Argento Awards, ...
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Cagliari
Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy. It has about 146,627 inhabitants, while its Metropolitan City of Cagliari, metropolitan city, 16 other nearby municipalities, has about 417,079 inhabitants. According to Eurostat, the population of the Functional urban area, functional urban area, the commuting zone of Cagliari, rises to 476,975. Cagliari is the 26th largest city in Italy and the largest city on the island of Sardinia. An ancient city with a long history, Cagliari has seen the rule of several civilisations. Under the buildings of the modern city there is a continuous stratification attesting to human settlement over the course of some five thousand years, from the Neolithic to today. Historical sites include the prehistoric Domus de Janas, partly damaged by cave activity, a large Ancient Car ...
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Medici (TV Series)
''Medici'' () is a historical drama television series created by Frank Spotnitz and Nicholas Meyer. The series was produced by Italian companies Lux Vide and Rai Fiction, in collaboration with Spotnitz's Big light productions, Big Light Productions. The series follows the House of Medici, bankers of the Pope, in History_of_Florence#Renaissance, 15th-century Florence. Each season follows the events of a particular moment of the family's history exploring the political and artistic landscape of Italian Renaissance, Renaissance Italy. The first season of the series, titled ''Medici: Masters of Florence'', premiered in Italy on Rai 1 on 18 October 2016. It takes place in 1429, the year Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, Giovanni de' Medici, head of the family, died. His son Cosimo de' Medici, Cosimo succeeds him as head of the family bank, the richest in Europe at the time, and fights to preserve his power in Florence. The series reached between four and eight million viewers on original ...
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Household Accounts
''Household Accounts'' () is a 2003 Italian mystery-drama film directed by Tonino Cervi. Cast * Gabriele Lavia: Augusto Pavinato * Emanuela Muni: Antonia * Claudio Bigagli: Judge Di Giacomo * David Sebasti: Giuliano Mantegna *Carlo Croccolo: Cavalier Angelo Marconi * Domiziana Giordano: Armida * Andy Luotto: Camerotto * Massimo Poggio: Zamboni *Laura Betti Laura Betti ( Trombetti; May 1 1934 – 31 July 2004) was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a long friendship with Pasolini and made a docume ...: Countess Celi Sanguineti * Maddalena Crippa: Iole * GTG.Wapakels: Olok Belat References External links * 2003 films Italian mystery drama films Films directed by Tonino Cervi 2000s mystery drama films 2003 drama films 2000s Italian films 2000s Italian-language films {{mystery-film-stub ...
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Callas Forever
''Callas Forever'' is a 2002 biographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, who co-wrote the screenplay with Martin Sherman. It is an homage to Zeffirelli's friend, internationally acclaimed opera diva Maria Callas, whom he directed on stage in '' Norma'', '' La traviata'', and '' Tosca''. It was his last film before his death in 2019. Plot The partially fictionalized film is set in 1977, the year in which Callas died, and centers on the making of a movie of Georges Bizet's '' Carmen''. The diva, whose now-ragged voice is well past its prime, is persuaded to star in it by longtime friend and former manager Larry Kelly, who abandoned classical music to become a rock impresario. He insists by lip-synching to her old recording she will recapture her lost youth and leave behind a priceless legacy for her admirers, and his theory is supported by Callas confidante and journalist Sarah Keller. Other characters include Michael, a handsome young painter of limited talent and a ...
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Roberta Torre
Roberta Torre (born 21 September 1962) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. In 1997 she won the Nastro d'argento for best new director with her first film, ''Tano da morire'' ("To Die for Tano"). The film entered the 54th Venice International Film Festival, winning the FEDIC Award, the Kodak Award and the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for best directorial debut film. The film also won two David di Donatello (for best score and best new director) and two other Nastro d'Argento for best score and best supporting role (an award given to the entire female cast). Biography Roberta Torre was born in Milan. She studied Acting and Drama in Scuola d’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi, then Directing and Screenwriting in Casa del Teatro e del Cinema. There she met Ermanno Olmi, whom she refers to as the person who mostly shaped her artistic views and perception. In 1990, Torre moved to Palermo, where she lived and worked for 10 years. In that period, she mostly focused on documentari ...
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Sud Side Stori
Sud or SUD may refer to: Places * Sud (Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg constituency), a constituency in Luxembourg * Sud (department), an administrative subdivision of Haiti * Sud Department (Ivory Coast), defunct administrative subdivision of Ivory Coast * South Province, New Caledonia (French: ''Province Sud'') * Sud, Cidra, Puerto Rico, a ''barrio'' * Sudan, IOC code SUD People * Anjali Sud (born 1983), Indian American businesswoman and the CEO of Vimeo * Veena Sud, Canadian-born American television writer, director, and producer Organizations and companies * Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques, a French group of trade unions Transportation *Sud Aviation, a defunct French state-owned aircraft manufacturer *Sudbury & Harrow Road railway station, London, England (National Rail station code) Arts, entertainment, and media * Sud (band), a Filipino band * ''Sud'' (1993 film), a film by Gabriele Salvatores * ''Sud'' (1999 film), a Belgian-Finnish-French English-language docume ...
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Naples In Veils
''Naples in Veils'' () is a 2017 thriller film directed by Turkish-Italian filmmaker Ferzan Özpetek. The plot is centered around Adriana, a Naples-based medical examiner in her forties who falls for a younger man and spends the night with him at her place. Plot During a Neapolitan ceremony involving ''femminielli'' at her aunt's house, medical examiner Adriana ( Giovanna Mezzogiorno) is seduced by a handsome young man, Andrea ( Alessandro Borghi). The two spend a sex-filled night at her place. Andrea asks Adriana to meet again later that afternoon, but he disappoints her by not showing up for the date. The following day, Adriana discovers that the young man on whom she is carrying out a post-mortem examination is Andrea. Someone murdered him and gouged out his eyes. Additionally, Adriana finds out from police inspectors that Andrea had taken pictures of her naked after they had sex. Soon after, she decides to investigate the circumstances surrounding Andrea's mysterious and bruta ...
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Ciak D'Oro
''Ciak'' is a popular Italian film magazine published in Milan, Italy. It is the most popular film magazine in Italy. The title is the Italian word (also spelled ''ciac'') for a film clapperboard. History and profile ''Ciak'' was established in 1985 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Each year the magazine publishes the Power List: a list of the most influential figures in the Italian film industry. Ciak d'oro The Ciak d'oro (Golden Ciak) is an Italian annual film award. It was established in 1986 by the magazine ''Ciak''. It is the only award of Italian cinema that has the audience as jury: the readers of the magazine vote the best film, the best director, the best leading actors and the best foreign film of the season, instead the best supporting actors and the winners of the Ciak d'oro for technical categories and for Best Debut are designed by a jury of film critics and specialized journalists. Film categories Television Series Awards Public voted categories * Best Italia ...
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La Repubblica
(; English: "the Republic") is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper with an average circulation of 151,309 copies in May 2023. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo, and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore as a leftist newspaper, which proclaimed itself a "newspaper-party" (). During the early years of , its political views and readership ranged from the reformist left to the extraparliamentary left. Into the 21st century, it is identified with centre-left politics, and was known for its anti- Berlusconism, and Silvio Berlusconi's personal scorn for the paper. In April 2020, the paper was acquired by the GEDI Gruppo Editoriale of John Elkann and the Agnelli family, who is also the founder and owner of . Maurizio Molinari, the then editor of , was appointed as 's editor in place of ; this prompted the resignation of several journalists opposed to this change. Un ...
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Magnificent Presence
''Magnificent Presence'' (, also known as ''A Magnificent Haunting'') is a 2012 Italian drama film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. Plot Pietro Pontechievello is a gay man who rents a large house in the historic center of Rome. In the abode Pietro quickly learns of strange and mysterious presences. The house is haunted by the ghosts of members of a theater company dating back to the times of fascism, and now they do not know that are dead. Indeed, the ghosts believe they are on leave to participate in a new show, and Pietro does not know how to drive the intruders from the building. Cast * Andrea Bosca - Luca Veroli * Margherita Buy - Lea Marni * Loredana Cannata - Casting * Giuseppe Fiorello - Filippo Verni * Elio Germano - Pietro Pontechievello * Paola Minaccioni - Maria * Ambrogio Maestri - Ambrogio Dardini * Anna Proclemer - Livia Morosini * Vittoria Puccini - Beatrice Marni * Cem Yılmaz - Yusuf Antep * Alessandro Roja - Paolo Reception ''Magnificent Presence'' has an app ...
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Screen International
''Screen International'' is a British film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by Media Business Insight, a British B2B media company which also owned '' Broadcast''. The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global film business. The magazine in its current form was founded in 1975, and its website, ''Screendaily.com'', was added in 2001. ''Screen International'' also produces daily publications at film festivals and markets in Berlin, Germany; Cannes, France; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California; and Hong Kong. History ''Screen International'' traces its history back to 1889 with the publication of ''Optical Magic Lantern and Photographic Enlarger''. At the turn of the 20th century, the name changed to ''Cinematographic Journal'' and in 1907 it was renamed '' Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly''. Kinematograph Weekly ''Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly'' contained trade news, advertisemen ...
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Senso '45
''Senso '45'' (also released internationally as ''Black Angel'') is an Italian erotic drama film written and directed by Tinto Brass, based on the novella '' Senso'' by Camillo Boito, which also inspired Luchino Visconti's 1954 film. Instead of being set during the Third Italian War of Independence, the film is set in Venice during the last months of the fascist regime. Plot Livia Mazzoni, the wife of a senior manager of MinCulPop, departs from Asolo to Venice, where she meets her lover Helmut Schultz, an officer of the SS. During her car trip, Livia remembers the sexual drift that brought her up to that point, overwhelming her in a whirlwind of erotic adventures, illicit trafficking, shady characters who move in the shadow of the disarraying fascist regime in the final months of World War II. Cast * Anna Galiena as Livia Mazzoni * Gabriel Garko as Helmut Schultz * Antonio Salines as Carlo * Franco Branciaroli as Ugo Oggiano * Loredana Cannata as Ninetta * Simona Borioni ...
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