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Jolanda Benvenuti
Jolanda Benvenuti was an Italian film editor.Bondanella p.158 She worked on more than a 150 productions during her career, including several films directed by Roberto Rossellini. Selected filmography * ''Laugh, Pagliacci'' (1943) * ''The White Primrose'' (1947) * ''Ring Around the Clock'' (1950) * ''Stromboli (1950 film), Stromboli'' (1950) * ''The Flowers of St. Francis'' (1950) * ''The Ungrateful Heart'' (1951) * ''Malavita (1951 film), Malavita'' (1951) * ''Three Girls from Rome'' (1952) * ''The Piano Tuner Has Arrived'' (1952) * ''The Machine to Kill Bad People'' (1952) * ''Europe '51'' (1952) * ''Deceit (1952 film), Deceit'' (1952) * ''Naples Sings'' (1953) * ''Storms (film), Storms'' (1953) * ''We, the Women'' (1953) * ''It Takes Two to Sin in Love'' (1954) * ''Fear (1954 film), Fear'' (1954) * ''Giovanna d'Arco al rogo'' (1954) * ''Letter from Naples'' (1954) * ''The Island Monster'' (1954) * ''Tragic Ballad (film), Tragic Ballad'' (1954) * ''Tears of Love'' (1954) * ''Journ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital technology. When putting together some sort of video composition, typically, one would need a collection of shots and footages that vary from one another. The act of adjusting the shots someone has already taken, and turning them into something new is known as film editing. The film editor works with raw footage, selecting Shot (filmmaking), shots and combining them into Sequence (filmmaking), sequences which create a finished Film, motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is an extremely important ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Takes Two To Sin In Love
''It Takes Two to Sin in Love'' () is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and starring Giorgio De Lullo, Cosetta Greco and Alda Mangini.Moliterno p.94 The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfredo Montori. Cast * Giorgio De Lullo as Arturo Giorgi * Cosetta Greco as Luisa Galli * Alda Mangini as Olga * Vera Carmi as Bianca Giorgi * Carlo Lombardi (actor), Carlo Lombardi as Armando Giorgi * Cristina Pall as Lolita * Rossana Rory as Elvira * Germana Paolieri * Anna Arena * Fiamma Breschi * Pina Piovani * Galeazzo Benti * Gianni Agus * Mario Siletti * Mimmo De Ninno * Carlo Mariotti * Giulio Battiferri * Franco Scandurra * Bruno Smith * Antonio Nicotra * Enrico Glori * Margherita Bossi * Aldo Vasco * Antonio Acqua * Ermanno Adriani References Bibliography * Moliterno, Gino. ''Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008. External links * 1954 films Italian drama films 1954 drama films 1950s Italian-lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto's First Night
''Toto's First Night'' () is a 1962 Italian musical comedy film directed by Mario Amendola and starring Totò and Erminio Macario.Bìspuri p.264 Plot Ninì and Mimi are two friends, itinerant players, who can not make a penny. It is performed at night, in various places, arousing only the laughter of the public, until Mimi is delivered the conspicuous legacy of his uncle. Ninì immediately takes the opportunity to re-launch the duo in nightclubs, but squanders all the money in goliardic parties. Cast * Totò as Nini * Erminio Macario as Mimi Makò * Margaret Lee * Helmut Zacharias Helmut Zacharias (27 January 192028 February 2002) was a German violinist and composer who created over 400 works and sold 14 million records. He also appeared in a number of films, usually playing musicians. Early life Helmut Zacharias was bor ... * Mac Ronay * Dodo' D'Amburg * Pascaline * Caroline Lecerf * Moa Tahi * Karin Koidl * Margaret Rose Keil * Caroline Cherie * Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiko (film)
''Akiko'' is a 1961 Cinema of Italy, Italian comedy film written and directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico. Plot In Rome, Mrs. Ottavia Colasanto has not had news of her husband since he went to Japan eighteen years ago. She is considered practically a widow. One day, a very beautiful young Japanese girl arrives. She notifies the Colasanto family that she is the biological daughter of Ottavia's (presumably) deceased husband. Cast *Akiko Wakabayashi as Akiko *Pierre Brice as Duilio *Marisa Merlini as Ottavia Colasanto *Memmo Carotenuto as Armando Piffero * as Anita Colasanto *Valeria Fabrizi as Tosca *Andrea Checchi as Sor Egisto *Marcello Paolini as Serse Colasanto *Giacomo Furia as Peppe, aka "Er Campanaro" *Giuseppe Chinnici as the commissioner * as the referee in the ring *Paolo Ferrari (actor), Paolo Ferrari as "Terzo Braccio" *Paolo Panelli as Felice *Carlo Taranto * as little boy asking for a cigarette * *Ettore Zamperini * * * References External links * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banditi A Orgosolo
''Banditi a Orgosolo'' (''Bandits of Orgosolo'') is a 1960 Italian film drama directed by Vittorio De Seta. De Seta won an Award for the film at the Venice Film Festival. Plot Michele, a shepherd of Orgoloso, Sardinia who is wrongly suspected of involvement with bandits he encountered who committed pig rustling and killed a policeman, flees to the hills with his flock, which he bought on credit after a poor previous year, and young shepherd brother, rather than surrender and risk losing them during the investigation and thus his family's income. He is pursued by police and, in his journey into the inaccessible areas of Barbagia, where there is little water or pasture, loses his sheep. One night, deep in debt and facing impending trials, he enters a sheepfold and steals another shepherd's flock. Michele has become a bandit Banditry is a type of organized crime committed by outlaws typically involving the threat or use of violence. A person who engages in banditry is known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adorabili E Bugiarde
''Adorabili e bugiarde'' (also known as ''Adorable and a Liar'') is a 1958 Italian crime comedy film directed by Nunzio Malasomma. Plot Three beautiful girls, a model, a journalist and a painter, eager for celebrity at all costs, decide to stage a fake murder to attract the attention of the press. At some point, one of them really disappears, being found only after many vicissitudes. The three young women understand that it is better to live a quiet life far from the spotlight. Cast * Isabelle Corey: Anna Pelti * Ingeborg Schöner: Paola Brini *Eloisa Cianni: Marisa Dalli *Franco Fabrizi: Geronti * Paolo Ferrari: Carlo *Nino Manfredi: Mario *Rick Battaglia: Giorgio Pitagora *Roberto Risso: Gino Gorni *Franco Silva: police commissioner *Loris Gizzi: court clerk *Enrico Glori: Donatello *Carlo Tamberlani: chief editor * Lauro Gazzolo: president of the tribunal * Edoardo Toniolo: instruction judge * Manlio Busoni: public attorney * Carlo Delle Pia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Most Wonderful Moment
''The Most Wonderful Moment'' () is a 1957 Italian drama film directed by Luciano Emmer. This drama deals with natural childbirth, and was described as "clinically pure, informative, edifying and, on occasion, tenderly dramatic". Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares for the upcoming childbirth. Plot In the maternity ward of a large Roman hospital, we witness the secret love between the young doctor Pietro Valeri and the nurse Luisa Morelli. Pietro has difficulty in making a career and hesitates to marry Luisa as he does not know what future he could offer her. The situation seems to get worse when Luisa realizes she is expecting a baby. Pietro, always irresolute, seems to be in favor of a clandestine abortion, a solution that the girl refuses to consider. Luisa leaves the hospital and moves to her former colleague Margherita, who has set up on her own as a midwife. Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier Of Moncenisio (1956 Film)
''The Courier of Moncenisio'' () is a 1954 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Roldano Lupi, Virna Lisi Virna Lisa Pieralisi (; 8 November 1936 – 18 December 2014), known as just Virna Lisi, was an Italian actress. Her international film appearances included ''How to Murder Your Wife'' (1965), ''Not with My Wife, You Don't!'' (1966), ''The Secre ... and Arnoldo Foà. It is the last of three film adaptation of the 1852 novel '' Jean le Coucher'' by Jean Bouchardy. Plot Nineteenth century. A woman, believing she has been widowed by her carrier husband, remarries a noble. He is actually plotting to get hold of a large inheritance, but he gets caught and kills himself. At this point, the woman's first husband, believed dead, reappears and rejoins the family. Cast References External links * ''The Cuorier of Moncenisio''at Variety Distribution 1954 films Italian historical drama films 1950s historical drama films 1950s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journey To Italy
''Journey to Italy'', also known as ''Voyage to Italy'', is a 1954 drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders play Katherine and Alex Joyce, a childless English married couple on a trip to Italy whose marriage is on the point of collapse until they are miraculously reconciled. The film was written by Rossellini and Vitaliano Brancati, but is loosely based on the 1934 novel '' Duo'' by Colette. Although the film was an Italian production, its dialogue was in English. The first theatrical release was in Italy under the title ''Viaggio in Italia''; the dialogue had been dubbed into Italian. ''Journey to Italy'' is considered by many to be Rossellini's masterpiece, as well as a seminal work of modernist cinema due to its loose storytelling. In 2012, it was listed by ''Sight & Sound'' magazine as one of the fifty greatest films ever made. Plot Alex and Katherine Joyce (Sanders and Bergman) are a couple from England who have traveled by car to Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tears Of Love
''Tears of Love'' () is a 1954 Italian Musical film, musical melodrama film directed by Pino Mercanti and starring Achille Togliani, Katina Ranieri and Otello Toso.Chiti & Poppi p.201 Cast * Achille Togliani as Mario Benetti * Katina Ranieri as Grazia Montalto * Bianca Maria Fusari as Rosella * Otello Toso as Davide Montalto * Enrico Glori as Comm. Goebritz * Umberto Spadaro as Don Vincenzo Benetti * Rita Rosa * Inelda Meroni * Dina De Santis * Nadia Bianchi * Mimo Billi * Roberto Paoletti * John Kitzmiller * Carlo Romano * Nada Cortese * Piero Giagnoni * Giacomo Furia * Galeazzo Benti as Dominique * Giulio Calì * Marco Tulli * Anellina Furia * Alberto D'Amario * Renato Lupi * Edoardo Nevola References Bibliography * Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959''. Gremese Editore, 1991. External links * 1954 films Italian musical drama films 1950s musical drama films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Pino M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tragic Ballad (film)
''Tragic Ballad'' () is a 1954 Italian crime musical melodrama film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Teddy Reno, Beniamino Maggio and Nando Bruno.Chiti & Poppi p.54 The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfredo Montori. Cast * Teddy Reno as Stefano Accardi * Beniamino Maggio as Giovanni Barone * Nando Bruno as Commisario * Marisa Allasio as Maria Rota * Tina Pica as Moglie del nostromo * Barbara Shelley as Betty Mason * Leda Gloria as Signora Barone * Marc Lawrence as Felipe Alvaro * Enzo Petito as Nostromo * Amedeo Girardi as Paolo Accardi * Giulio Calì as Marinaio genovese * Rosalia Maggio as cameriera casa Accardi * Giacomo Furia as Vigile urbano * Michele Malaspina Michele Malaspina (16 August 1908 – 13 January 1979) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Bolzaneto, Genoa, the son of two shopkeepers, since childhood Malaspina has a passion for theater and was an actor in a co ... as armatore amico Acca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Island Monster
''The Island Monster'' () is a 1954 Italian thriller film directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero and starring Boris Karloff, Franca Marzi and Germana Paolieri. It was made at Cinecitta Studios with location shooting taking place on the island of Ischia. Plot Don Gaetano, an apparently respectable man but the leader of a gang of traffickers, kidnaps a little girl to force a policeman not to investigate; the latter, aided by a woman of the gang, frees the child and arrests the criminals. Cast *Boris Karloff as Don Gaetano * Franca Marzi as Gloria D'Auro * Renato Vicario as Ten. Mario Andreani * Patrizia Remiddi as Fiorella Andreani * Jole Fierro as Giulia * Carlo Duse as Foster * Germana Paolieri as Adalgisa * Giuseppe Chinnici as Maresciallo Antonio Carcani * Giulio Battiferri as Il rapitore * Domenico De Nimmo as Uomo di Pozzuoli * Clara Gamberini as La contessa * Salvatore Scibetta as Col. Della Finanza References Bibliography * Barry Atkinson. ''Atomic Age Cinema: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
