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Amici Miei – Come Tutto Ebbe Inizio
''Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizio'' () is a 2011 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti. The film is meant to be a tribute to Mario Monicelli's classic comedy '' My Friends'' (1975) and its two sequels, and it is set in 15th-century Florence. The main plot of the film is based on an Italian Renaissance ''novella A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) ...'' known as ''Novella del Grasso legnaiuolo'' ("Tale of the Fat Carpenter"). Cast References External links * 2011 films Films directed by Neri Parenti 2010s Italian-language films 2011 comedy films Italian comedy films Films set in Florence Films shot in Tuscany Films shot in Rome Films set in the 1480s Films set in the 15th century 2010s Italian films Italian-language comedy films {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neri Parenti
Neri Parenti (born 26 April 1950) is an Italian film director and writer. He is known for comedy films, including the series starring Paolo Villaggio playing the character Ugo Fantozzi, and a later series of '' cinepanettoni''—zany comedy films scheduled for release during the Christmas period. Biography After graduating in political science, he dedicated his career to filmmaking. He became a pupil and assistant of Pasquale Festa Campanile from 1972 to 1979, and also worked for Salvatore Samperi, Steno and Giorgio Capitani. In 1979 he directed his first film, '' The Face with Two Left Feet'', an ironic and comical parody of ''Saturday Night Fever'' with John Travolta, which had been a hit two years earlier. A year later he met the film actor and director Paolo Villaggio, who was then filming '' Fantozzi contro tutti''. Villaggio developed an esteem for Parenti and decided to leave the director's chair to join forces with him. The result was very positive and the pair made a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Monicelli
Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli (; 16 May 1915 – 29 November 2010) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the ''commedia all'italiana'' ("Italian-style comedy"). He was nominated six times for an Academy Awards, Oscar, and received the Golden Lion for his career. Biography The early times Monicelli was born in Rome to an upper-class family from Ostiglia,. a town in the province of Mantua, in the Northern Italy, Northern Italian region of Lombardy. He was the second of the five children of Tomaso Monicelli, a journalist, and Maria Carreri, a housewife. His older half-brother, Giorgio (whose mother was actress Elisa Severi), worked as a writer and translator. An older brother, Franco, was a journalist. Monicelli was raised in Rome, Viareggio (Tuscany) and Milan.. He lived a mostly carefree youth. Many of the cinematic jokes he later shot in ''My Friends (film), My Friends'' (1975) were inspired by his own experiences during his years in Tuscany. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Paci
Alessandro Paci (born 21 December 1964) is an Italian actor, film director and comedian. Biography Tuscan comedian, debuted in the duo ''Duemendi'', with Massimo Ceccherini. He participated in the program ''Aria Fresca'', broadcast on Videomusic (and then on TMC2) in the mid-nineties, playing an improbable bouncer, and ironically on his physique, and he has also brought on stage a comic adaptation of the fable of Pinocchio, and ''Fermi tutti, questo è uno spettacolo'', where he performed with his friend and colleague Massimo Ceccherini: the DVD of the show which became the theater's best-selling DVD of Italy. Filmography Film *'' Welcome to Home Gori'' (1990) *'' The Party's Over'' (1991) *'' Amami'' (1993) *'' Bonus malus'' (1993) *'' Dear Goddamned Friends'' (1994) *'' Il grande Fausto'' (1995) *'' Return to Home Gori'' (1996) *'' Albergo Roma'' (1996) *'' Stressati'' (1997) *'' Lucignolo'' (1999) *'' Picasso's Face'' (2000) *'' Andata e ritorno'' (2003) *''Tutti all'attac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ainett Stephens
Ainett Stephens (born 28 January 1982) is a Venezuelan actress, tv host, model and beauty pageant titleholder. Biography She was among the ten semi-finalists of the Miss Venezuela 2000 beauty contest and subsequently posed for a calendar and the benefits of which went to the people of the Amazon Rainforest. After beginning a career as an underwear model in South America, she arrived in Italy in 2004. In late 2005 she made a nude calendar for the men magazine '' Fox Uomo'' (for year 2006). She hosted three seasons (2005, 2006 and 2007) of '' Real TV'' aired by Italia 1. In 2006 she played the role of ''Black Cat'' in early evening quiz show '' Mercante in fiera'' hosted by Pino Insegno on Italia 1 and in the same period she posed again for a nude calendar (for year 2007) for the sports magazine '' Controcampo''. In March 2007 she hosted, with Daniele Bossari, the television quiz '' Azzardo'' aired by Italia 1. In 2008 she hosted, along with Taiyo Yamanouchi, the 3rd season of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eros Pagni
Eros Pagni (born 28 August 1939) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in La Spezia, at the age of 17, Pagni started attending the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome and then went back to Genoa and played roles in works by William Shakespeare, Molière, Eugene O'Neill, Luigi Pirandello and more. As a film actor, Pagni has appeared in more than 30 films since 1964. He is well known for his collaboration with Lina Wertmüller in films such as '' Love and Anarchy'', '' Swept Away'' and '' All Screwed Up'' and for his minor role in Dario Argento's '' Deep Red''. He and all the cast of Ettore Scola's '' The Dinner'' received the Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Supporting Actor. Occasionally, Pagni also serves as a voice actor. He is notable for having dubbed in Italian actors like R. Lee Ermey in ''Full Metal Jacket'' and Christopher Lee in '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch'' and animated characters such as Judge Claude Frollo from '' The Hunchback ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiara Francini
Chiara Francini (born 20 December 1976) is an Italian actress and author. Biography Born in , she graduated in with a thesis in literary . After her graduation, she underwent a three-year theatre course in |
Alessandra Acciai
Alessandra Acciai (born December 12, 1965, in Rome) is an Italian film, television and stage actress, whose career spanned over 30 years. Biography Born in Rome, Acciai made her film debut in 1987, while still a student at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico. Since the late 1980s she specialized in comedy films. In 1994 Acciai was awarded revelation actress of the year at Grolle d'oro for her performances in Enzo Monteleone's '' The True Life of Antonio H.'' and Rosalía Polizzi's '' Anni Ribelli''. She later participated in works by young directors such as Claudia Florio, Marco Filiberti and Eugenio Cappuccio. Acciai made her television debut in 1989 playing the leading role in the television film ''Il gioko'', a thriller directed by Lamberto Bava, and is best known for the role of Cora in the series ''Incantesimo'', in which she appeared for two consecutive seasons. Starting from the 1990s, she was also active on stage, working among others with Memè ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Villoresi
Maria Pamela Villoresi (born 1 January 1957) is an Italian theatre, cinema and television actress. She has performed in more than 100 theatrical productions and in more than 30 films. Life and career The daughter of a cloth merchant of Prato and of a German mother, Pamela Villoresi began her artistic career following the acting lessons at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato. In 1975 Giorgio Strehler called her to be part of the theater company he started, Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Simultaneously she achieved great success with the television drama ''Marco Visconti'' and started a continuous career in cinema, in which she frequently had leading roles. In 1975 she posed nude as cover girl for ''Playmen''. In 1978 she won a Grolla d'oro for her role in Marco Bellocchio's ''Il gabbiano''. From 1990 she occasionally was a stage director and a TV presenter. In 2010 she ran in the Lazio regional election, supporting the center-right candidate Renata Polverini. She was not elected. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo De' Medici
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (), known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (; 1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492), was an Italian statesman, the ''de facto'' ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Lorenzo held the balance of power within the Italic League, an alliance of states that stabilized political conditions on the Italian Peninsula for decades, and his life coincided with the mature phase of the Italian Renaissance and the golden age of Florence. As a patron, he is best known for his sponsorship of artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo. On the foreign policy front, Lorenzo manifested a clear plan to stem the territorial ambitions of Pope Sixtus IV, in the name of the balance of the Italic League of 1454. For these reasons, Lorenzo was the subject of the Pazzi conspiracy (1478), in which his brother Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, Giuliano was assassinated. The Peace of Lodi of 1454 that he supported among the various List of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novella
A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts. Definition The Italian term is a feminine of ''novello'', which means ''new'', similarly to the English word ''news''. Merriam-Webster defines a novella as "a work of fiction intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and a novel". There is disagreement regarding the number of pages or words necessary for a story to be considered a novella, a short story or a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association defines a novella's word count to be between 17,500 and 40,000 words; at 250 words per page, this equates to 70 to 160 pages. See below for definitions used by other organisations. History The novella as a literary genre began developing in the Italian literature of the early Renaissance, princip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corriere Della Sera
(; ) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 246,278 copies in May 2023. First published on 5 March 1876, is one of Italy's oldest newspapers and is Italy's most read newspaper. Its masthead has remained unchanged since its first edition in 1876. It reached a circulation of over 1 million under editor and co-owner Luigi Albertini between 1900 and 1925. He was a strong opponent of socialism, clericalism, and Giovanni Giolitti, who was willing to compromise with those forces during his time as prime minister of Italy. Albertini's opposition to the Italian fascist regime forced the other co-owners to oust him in 1925. A representative of the moderate bourgeoisie, has always been generally considered centre-right-leaning, hosting in its columns liberal and democratic Catholic views. In the 21st century, its main competitors are Rome's and Turin's . Until the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the country underwent a nationalization proc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
