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Andrea Guerra (composer)
Andrea Guerra is an Italian composer. He is noted for his film scores of ''Facing Windows'' (2003), ''Hotel Rwanda'' (2004), and ''The Pursuit of Happyness'' (2006). Biography Son of poet and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, Andrea Guerra was born in October 1961 in the northern Italian town of Santarcangelo di Romagna. After studying composition and arrangement under maestro Ettore Ballotta, he moved to Rome where he began his career composing music for nature documentaries. In succeeding years, he wrote several film scores for directors such as Ferzan Özpetek, Roberto Faenza, Giuseppe Bertolucci, and others. In 2015, he made his debut in Bollywood by composing the film score of the ''Dum Laga Ke Haisha''. In 2016, he composed the background score for the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer ''Fan (2016 film), Fan''. Filmography Awards and nominations * Venice Film Festival 2017 - Soundtrack Stars Award * European Film Awards 2005 - Best Composer (''Hotel Rwanda'') * Golden Satellite Awards 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Facing Windows
''Facing Windows'' ( Italian: ''La finestra di fronte'') is a 2003 Italian romantic drama film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. Plot Giovanna ( Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and her husband Filippo ( Filippo Nigro) have settled into life. They both have jobs that make them unhappy. She works in a poultry factory. He works the graveyard shift because he lacks seniority. They argue about money, sex, time and work... There is a subtle sense that this is a marriage whose love is dwindling fast, and that perhaps they are only going through the motions for the sake of their children. One morning, the two of them are walking home and cross paths with an elderly man (Massimo Girotti). He is suffering from transient global amnesia, remembering nothing about himself and his current situation, although recalling random episodes from his remote past. And despite Giovanna's protests, Filippo brings him back to their home for the night so that he can take him to the police the next morning in the hopes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Protagonists (1999 Film)
''The Protagonists'' is a 1999 Italian crime thriller film written and directed by Luca Guadagnino in his directorial debut. It stars Tilda Swinton and Fabrizia Sacchi. The film had its world premiere at the 56th Venice International Film Festival on 8 September 1999. It was released in Italy on 10 September 1999 by Medusa Distribuzione. Premise The film chronicles an Italian film crew who are in London making a reconstruction of the real-life killing of Egyptian chef Mohamed El-Sayed by the two 19-year-olds Jamie Petrolini and Richard Elsey in 1994. Cast * Tilda Swinton as Actress * Fabrizia Sacchi as herself * Andrew Tiernan as Mohammed * Claudio Gioè as Happy * Paolo Briguglia as Billy * Michelle Hunziker as Sue * Jhelisa as herself * Laura Betti as Judge Production Production on the film began in 1998, with principal photography Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
I Am Emma
''I Am Emma'' () is a 2002 Italian comedy film directed by Francesco Falaschi. The movie was nominated for a David di Donatello and a Silver Ribbon for Best New Director in 2003. Cast * Cecilia Dazzi as Emma * Marco Giallini as Roberto * Pierfrancesco Favino as Carlo *Elda Alvigini Elda (; , ) is a city and municipality located in the province of Alicante, Spain. , it has a total population of 55,618 inhabitants, ranking as the 7th most populous city in the province. Elda joins together with the town of Petrer to form a ... as Marta * Nicola Siri as Daniele * Luigi Diberti as Marcello * Claudia Coli as Elisa * Federico Marinacci as Emilio References External links * 2002 films 2000s Italian-language films 2002 comedy films Italian comedy films Films directed by Francesco Falaschi Films set in Tuscany Films shot in Tuscany {{2000s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Soul Keeper
''The Soul Keeper'' (; ) is a 2002 Italian-French-British romance-drama film directed by Roberto Faenza. It is loosely based on real life events of Russian psychoanalyst and physician Sabina Spielrein and notably on her therapeutic and sentimental relationship with fellow psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung. Plot Marie and Fraser, two young scholars, respectively French and Scottish, get to know each other while they are both in Moscow to research the life of the Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein. The two researchers reconstruct Sabina's life together, starting with her hospitalisation in Zürich in 1904 for a serious form of hysteria. There the patient meets the young doctor Carl Gustav Jung, who, using the new methods of psychoanalysis developed by Freud, will be able to cure her. Sabina begins to take an interest in psychoanalysis herself, and begins an intense love affair with Jung. However, discovering that her beloved Carl, married and with two children, although in love wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Angela (2002 Film)
''Angela'' is a 2002 Italian drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ... written and directed by Roberta Torre. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight at the 55th Cannes Film Festival. For her performance in this film Donatella Finocchiaro won the Globo d'oro for best female newcomer. Cast * Donatella Finocchiaro as Angela * Andrea Di Stefano as Masino * Mario Pupella as Saro * Erasmo Lobello as Mimmo * Matteo Gulino as Paolino * Toni Gambino as Santino * Giuseppe Pettinato as Raffaele Santangelo * Maria Mistretta as Minica * as Commissioner References External links * Italian crime drama films 2002 crime drama films 2002 films 2000s Italian films 2000s Italian-language films Italian-language crime drama films {{200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Emanuele Crialese
Emanuele Crialese (; born 27 May 1965) is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is a native of Rome and studied filmmaking in New York City. Early life Emanuele Crialese was born on 26 July 1965 in Rome to Sicilian parents. He studied filmmaking at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, from where he graduated in 1995. During this time he made several short films including '' Heartless'' (1994). His first feature film, '' Once We Were Strangers'' (1997), was an Italian-American co-production, funded by a producer who had noticed Crialese during his apprenticeship in the United States. Career Between 1998 and 2000, Crialese worked in theater and on a drafting of a cinematic treatment of Ellis Island along with producer Robert Chartoff, the producer of ''Raging Bull'' and ''Rocky''. This was followed by the feature '' Respiro'' (2002) starring Valeria Golino. The film recounts an old Sicilian legend about the island of Lampedusa. Crialese won the Critics Wee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Respiro
''Respiro'' is a 2002 Italian- French drama film written and directed by Emanuele Crialese and released in English-language markets in 2003. The film stars Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, and Francesco Casisa. In the Italian language, '' respiro'' means ''breath''. Plot Grazia, played by Golino, is a free-spirited mother of three married to shy fisherman Pietro (Vincenzo Amato) and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behaviour—one moment she is laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she is curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy. Grazia is closely shepherded by her oldest son Pasquale, played by Casisa. After Pietro puts down one of Grazia's dogs because he thinks it might be dangerous, impulsive Grazia sets all the stray dogs free in the town's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Semana Santa
Semana Santa is the Spanish for Holy Week, the final week of Lent leading to Easter. In Spanish speaking cultures as well as Holy Week in the Philippines, the Philippines this becomes an annual tribute of the Passion of Jesus Christ celebrated by Catholic religious Nazareno (Spanish confraternity), brotherhoods (Spanish: cofradías) and confraternities that Holy Week processions, process on the streets of many Spanish speaking towns and cities during Holy Week. In some parts of Latin America it became part of the acculturation of pre conquest beliefs into Catholic culture. Spanish origins In Spain, Semana Santa processions are among the most elaborate and culturally significant in the world. These events, rooted in Middle Ages, medieval and Baroque traditions, are organized by Catholic brotherhoods (''Cofradía, cofradías'') that carry ornate floats (''Paso (float), pasos'') through the streets, depicting scenes from the Passion of Jesus, Passion of Christ and the Sorrows of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Empty Eyes (2001 Film)
''Empty Eyes'' () is a 2001 Italian drama film directed by Andrea Porporati. Cast * Fabrizio Gifuni: Marco * Gianni Cavina: Father of Marco * Delia Boccardo: Mother of Marco * Valerio Mastandrea Valerio Mastandrea (born 14 February 1972) is an Italian film, stage and television actor. Life and career He was born in Rome. While being a student of philosophy, in the early 1990s Mastandrea enjoyed some success thanks to the semi-regular p ...: Agent Rinaldi * Romuald Andrzej Klos: Mago Cilindro References External links * 2001 films Italian crime drama films 2001 crime drama films 2000s Italian films {{2000s-crime-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vincenzo Marra
Vincenzo Marra (born Naples Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ..., 18 September 1972) is an Italian filmmaker. Filmography * 2001 - '' Tornando a casa'' * 2002 - '' E.A.M. - Estranei alla massa'' (documentary) * 2003 - '' Paesaggio a sud'' * 2004 - '' Vento di terra'' * 2005 - '' 58%'' (documentary) * 2006 - '' L'udienza è aperta'' (documentary) * 2007 - '' The Trial Begins'' * 2014 - '' Bridges of Sarajevo'' * 2015 - '' First Light'' References External links * Italian film directors Living people Film people from Naples Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters 1972 births {{Italy-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Damiano Damiani
Damiano Damiani (23 July 1922 – 7 March 2013) was an Italian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer. Poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini referred to him as "a bitter moralist hungry for old purity", while film critic Paolo Mereghetti said that his style made him "the most American of Italian directors". In 1946 Damiani became part of the so-called Group of Venice with Fernando Carcupino, Hugo Pratt and Dino Battaglia. Life and career Born in Pasiano di Pordenone, Italy, Damiani studied at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, then made his début in 1947 with the documentary ''La banda d'Affari''. After a few years as a screenwriter, he directed his first feature film in 1960, '' Il rossetto''. Before his career as a big screenwriter, Damiani was first a comic cartoonist in association with the "Group of Venice". Focused on the comic '' Asso di Picche'' (1945–49) the comic featured a masked vigilante who fights crime all over the globe and is in charge of the cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
