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Five Stormy Days
''Five Stormy Days'' () is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film co-written and directed by . It premiered at the 54th edition of the Venice International Film Festival. Plot Cast * Roberto De Francesco as Giovanni * Chiara Caselli as Loredana * Amanda Sandrelli as Antonella * Gigio Alberti as Dario * Rocco Papaleo as Michele * Massimo Ceccherini as Renato * as Sergio * Renato Carpentieri as Vince * Umberto Orsini as himself * Karin Proia as Fiorianna * as Barbara * Tonino De Bernardi Release The film premiered at the 54th Venice International Film Festival, in the Midday sidebar. Reception ''Varietys critic David Rooney praised the film and wrote: "While it declines to build much on the script's solid comedic foundations, and perhaps could have used more punch, this amusing reflection on life, love and friendship quietly satisfies with its lightness of touch, its bittersweet observations and affectionately drawn characters." Paolo Mereghetti Pao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Veronesi
Giovanni Veronesi (born 1962) is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director. Born in Prato, he is the brother of the writer Sandro Veronesi (writer), Sandro Veronesi. He started his career writing scripts for directors such as Francesco Nuti, Leonardo Pieraccioni, Massimo Ceccherini and Carlo Verdone. He debuted as film director with ''Maramao'' in 1987, before reaching commercial success with ''What Will Happen to Us'' (2004). He is known for his ''Manual of Love'' romantic comedy trilogy: ''Manual of Love'' (2005), ''Manual of Love 2'' (2007) and ''The Ages of Love'' (2011). His partner is actress Valeria Solarino, whom Veronesi directed in ''What Will Happen to Us''. Filmography Film director *''Maramao'' (1987) *''For Love, Only for Love'' (1993) *''Silenzio... si nasce'' (1996) *''The Barber of Rio'' (1996) *''Viola Kisses Everybody'' (1998) *''Gunslinger's Revenge'' (1998) *''Witches to the North'' (2001) *''What Will Happen to Us'' (2004) *''Manual of Love'' (2005) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Carpentieri
Renato Carpentieri (born 2 April 1943) is an Italian actor, stage director and playwright. Life and career Born in Savignano Irpino, Avellino, Carpentieri studied architecture in Naples, where from 1965 to 1974 he was engaged in the organization and promotion of cultural events with the group Nuova Cultura. In 1975 he was co-founder of the stage company Teatro dei Mutamenti, in which he was active until 1980 as a director, an actor and a playwright. He made his film debut in 1990, almost fifty years old, in Gianni Amelio's '' Porte aperte''. In 1993 he won a Nastro d'Argento for best supporting actor for his performance in Gabriele Salvatores' '' Puerto Escondido''. Since 1995 he has been the artistic director of the Neapolitan stage company Libera Scena Ensemble. Partial filmography *'' Open Doors'' (1990) *'' The Yes Man'' (1991) *'' The Stolen Children'' (1992) *'' Puerto Escondido'' (1992) *'' Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician'' (1992) *''Sud'' (1993) *'' Caro d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Films
The year 1997 in film involved many significant films, including ''Titanic (1997 film), Titanic'', ''The Full Monty'', ''Gattaca'', ''Donnie Brasco (film), Donnie Brasco'', ''Good Will Hunting'', ''Boogie Nights'', ''L.A. Confidential (film), L.A. Confidential'', ''The Fifth Element'', ''Nil by Mouth (film), Nil by Mouth'', ''The Spanish Prisoner'', and the beginning of the film studio DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1997 by worldwide gross are as follows: Box office records *''Titanic (1997 film), Titanic'' became the first film in history to pass at the box office on March 1, 1998. ''Titanic'' held the record for the List of highest-grossing films, highest-grossing film of all time for 12 years until it was surpassed by ''Avatar (2009 film), Avatar'' (also directed by James Cameron) on January 25, 2010. *The ''Jurassic Park'' franchise became the List of highest-grossing films#Highest-grossing franchises and film series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldini Castoldi Dalai
Baldini + Castoldi, formerly known as Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore until 2018, is an Italian publishing house founded in 1897 as Baldini & Castoldi. It changed its name to Dalai Editore in 2011, and Baldini & Castoldi became a series of Dalai Editore. The company has published several successful authors and is located under the arcades of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan. Foundation Founder members were Ettore Baldini, Antenore Castoldi, Alceste Borella, and the poet Gian Pietro Lucini, who had acquired the small publishing house Galli and Omodei and then renamed it as Baldini & Castoldi. At its foundation in 1897, it had a registered capital of 60,000 Italian lire. Among the first successful authors, there were Antonio Fogazzaro, Gerolamo Rovetta, Neera (Anna Zuccari), Salvator Gotta, and Guido da Verona; da Verona in particular was the most commercially successful Italian writer between 1914 and 1939. History 20th century In 1940, the management was renewed wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Mereghetti
Paolo Mereghetti (born 28 September 1949) is an Italian film critic. Born in Milan, Mereghetti graduated in philosophy with a thesis about Orson Welles.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. "Mereghetti, Paolo". ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . Currently the film critic of the newspaper ''Corriere della Sera'', he collaborated with various magazines, including '' Positif, Linus, SegnoCinema, Ombre Rosse''. Mereghetti is best known for the book collection of film reviews ''Il Mereghetti'', he published in various editions starting from 1993. In 2001 he was awarded a Flaiano Prize The Premi Flaiano (English: Flaiano Prizes) are a set of Italian international awards recognizing achievements in the fields of creative writing, cinema, theatre and radio-television. Established to honour the Italian author and screenwriter Enn ... for film criticism. References External links * 1949 births Living people Writers from Milan Italian film critics {{Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...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] |
Tonino De Bernardi
Tonino De Bernardi (born 24 August 1937) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Chivasso near Turin, after graduating in literature with Massimo Mila, with a thesis on neoclassical Stravinsky, Tonino De Bernardi joined the Cooperativa Cinema Indipendente Italiano in 1967, based first in Naples and then in Rome. In Turin he collaborated with Paolo Menzio ("Il mostro verde", 16mm, in competition at Knokke-le-Zoute 1967–68, EXPRMNTL, Experimental Film Festival) and Pia Epremian De Silvestris (De Bernardi acted, together with Mariella Navale, in "Medea" and other films of hers, and Pia, in turn, appears in De Bernardi's works). In Rome, the Cooperative's films were often screened at festivals organized at the Filmstudio '70 (from March 1968). Among others, Giorgio Turi, Adamo Vergine, Alfredo Leonardi, Gianfranco Baruchello, Massimo Bacigalupo - who was to become a fundamental friend of Tonino and Mariella - Luca Patella, Piero Bargellini, Guido L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Proia
Karin Proia (born 14 March 1974) is an Italian actress who began acting in 1994. She has also directed. Movies she has appeared in include the Italian movies '' The Crusaders'', the comedy ''Five Stormy Days'' and ''Wasteland''. She has also appeared in television dramas, including '' Amico mio 2'', '' Avvocato Porta'', '' Shoo Shoo'' and '' Lo zio d'America''. Her stage performances include Catherine in ''A View from the Bridge'' (Italy, 1995) and Shelby in ''Steel Magnolias'' (Italy, 1997). Biography Proia was born in Latina, Italy. An actress since 1994, she works in theatre, cinema and television in Italy and abroad. She worked such as leading-actress with directors as Joseph Sargent, Dominique Othenin-Girard, Michele Placido and close to actors such as Henry Cavill, Joe Mantegna, Emmanuelle Seigner, Valeria Golino, Giancarlo Giannini, Burt Young, Armin Mueller-Stahl. In 1990 she obtained the "theory, solfeggio and musical dictation" diploma at the Conservatory "L. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto Orsini
Umberto Orsini (born 2 April 1934) is an Italian actor. He achieved prominence as a stage actor in Luchino Visconti's company, before becoming known to general audiences for his roles in RAI television dramas. He won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Visconti's '' The Damned'' (1969), and was nominated for the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his role in '' The Early Bird Catches the Worm'' (2008). Early life Orisini was born in Novara in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, on 2 April 1934. Prior to pursuing an acting career, he worked as a notary. He enrolled in the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, and graduated in 1954. Career He began his professional stage career as a founding member of Milan's Compagnia dei Giovani, under the direction of Giorgio De Lullo and Romolo Valli. He performed with the Paolo Stoppa and Rina Morelli's company in a 1960 production of ''L'Arialda'', dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Ceccherini
Massimo Ceccherini (born 23 May 1965) is an Italian actor, film director, comedian and screenwriter. Biography Born in Florence, Ceccherini is the son of a plasterer, he seemed destined for the same profession, but his father was attracted to the world of entertainment. Ceccherini made his first television appearance in the program ''La Corrida'' and for years pursued a musical career with his friend Alessandro Paci. He became known to television viewers in the cabaret show ''Videomusic'', ''Aria Fresca'', conducted by a young Carlo Conti. In the meantime he got his first part in a film, '' Welcome to Home Gori'' directed by Alessandro Benvenuti, with whom the following year he would also act in the film '' The Party's Over''. In 1994, alongside Paolo Villaggio, Ceccherini appeared in '' Dear Goddamned Friends'', directed by Mario Monicelli. Popular success, however, came with the collaboration with his friend Leonardo Pieraccioni, participating in almost all his films. He an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandro Veronesi (writer)
Sandro Veronesi (born 1959) is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (''Il resto del cielo'', 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. He has since published five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplays, and television programs. Veronesi has twice been awarded Italy's most prestigious literary prize, the Premio Strega: in 2006 for his novel and in 2020 for his novel ''The Hummingbird'' (''Il colibrì''). Works ''Il resto del cielo'' consists of twenty-five short compositions, none longer than fourteen verses, that speak to the general problematics of communication, all of which are underscored by a constant Unity of opposites#Coincidentia oppositorum, coi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
