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L'avventura
''L'Avventura'' ( en, "The Adventure") is a 1960 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Developed from a story by Antonioni with co-writers Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra, the film is about the disappearance of a young woman ( Lea Massari) during a boating trip in the Mediterranean, and the subsequent search for her by her lover ( Gabriele Ferzetti) and her best friend ( Monica Vitti). It was filmed on location in Rome, the Aeolian Islands, and Sicily in 1959 under difficult financial and physical conditions. The film is noted for its unusual pacing, which emphasizes visual composition, mood, and character over traditional narrative development. ''L'Avventura'' was nominated for numerous awards and was awarded the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. The film made Monica Vitti an international star. According to an Antonioni obituary, the film "systematically subverted the filmic codes, practices and structures in currency at its time." ''L'Avventura' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—'' L'Avventura'' (1960), '' La Notte'' (1961), and '' L'Eclisse'' (1962)—as well as the English-language film '' Blow-up'' (1966), all considered masterpieces of world cinema. His films have been described as "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" that feature elusive plots, striking visual composition, and a preoccupation with modern landscapes. His work substantially influenced subsequent art cinema. Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, being the only director to have won the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion, the Golden Bear and the Golden Leopard. Early life Antonioni was born into a prosperous family of landowners in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, in northern Italy. He was the son of Elisabetta (née Roncagli) and Ismaele Antonioni. The director explained to Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Vitti
Monica Vitti (born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli; 3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022) was an Italian actress who starred in several award-winning films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the 1960s. After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed focus and began making comedies, working with director Mario Monicelli on many other films. She appeared with Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, and Dirk Bogarde. On her death, Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini called her "the Queen of Italian cinema". Vitti won five David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress, seven Italian Golden Globes for Best Actress, the Career Golden Globe, and the Venice Film Festival Career Golden Lion Award. Early life Born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli in Rome on 3 November 1931 to Adele (née Vittiglia) and Angelo Ceciarelli. She took her stage name from her mother's maiden name. Vitti acted in amateur productions as a teenager, then trained as an actress at Rome's National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sight & Sound
''Sight and Sound'' (also spelled ''Sight & Sound'') is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). It conducts the well-known, once-a-decade ''Sight and Sound'' Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time, ongoing since 1952. History and content ''Sight and Sound'' was first published in Spring 1932 as "A quarterly review of modern aids to learning published under the auspices of the British Institute of Adult Education". In 1934 management of the magazine was handed to the nascent British Film Institute (BFI), which still publishes the magazine today. ''Sight and Sound'' was published quarterly for most of its history until the early 1990s, apart from a brief run as a monthly publication in the early 1950s, but in 1991 it merged with another BFI publication, the '' Monthly Film Bulletin'', and started to appear monthly. In 1949, Gavin Lambert, co-founder of film journal '' Sequence'', was hired as the editor, and also brought with him ''Sequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Eclisse
''L'Eclisse'' ( en, "The Eclipse") is a 1962 Italian romance film written and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Filmed on location in Rome and Verona, the story follows a young woman (Vitti) who pursues an affair with a confident young stockbroker (Delon). Antonioni attributed some of his inspiration for ''L'Eclisse'' to when he filmed a solar eclipse in Florence. The film is considered the last part of a trilogy and is preceded by '' L'Avventura'' (1960) and '' La Notte'' (1961). ''L'Eclisse'' won the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Described by Martin Scorsese as the boldest film in the trilogy, it is one of the director's more acclaimed works. Plot On a Monday of July 1961, at dawn, Vittoria, a young literary translator, ends her relationship with Riccardo in his apartment in the EUR residential district of Rome, following a long night of conversation. Riccardo tries to per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
The Jury Prize (french: Prix du Jury) is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the third-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix, and it was considered a "second place" award until after the latter award was introduced. According to American film critic Dave Kehr, the award is "intended to recognize an original work that embodies the spirit of inquiry." History The award was first presented in 1946. The prize was not awarded on 10 occasions (1947, 1949, 1953, 1967, 1974–79, 1981–82, 1984, and 2001). The festival was not held at all in 1948, 1950, and 2020. In 1968, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due to the May 1968 events in France. Also, the jury vote was tied, and the prize was shared by two films on 21 occasions (1957, 1960, 1962–63, 1970–71, 1973, 1987, 1991–93, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2019, and 2021-22 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriele Ferzetti
Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film ''Lo Zappatore'' (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films ''Puccini (film), Puccini'' (1953) and ''Casa Ricordi (film), Casa Ricordi'' (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial ''L'Avventura'' (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man. Ferzetti starred as Lot (biblical person), Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, ''The Bible: In the Beginning...'' (1966), and played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' (1968). Perhaps his best known role, internationally, was in the James Bond movie ''On Her Majesty's S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Notte
''La Notte'' (; en, "The Night") is a 1961 drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti (with Umberto Eco appearing in a cameo). Filmed on location in Milan, the film is the relationship between a disillusioned novelist and his frustrated wife as it follows a single day and night where they confront their alienation from each other and the empty Milan circles they travel. The film continues Antonioni's tradition of abandoning traditional storytelling in favor of visual composition. Grossing 470 million lire and receiving acclaim for its exploration of modernist themes of isolation, ''La Notte'' received the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival (first time for Italian film), as well as the David di Donatello Award for Best Director in 1961. ''La Notte'' is considered the central film of a trilogy beginning with '' L'Avventura'' (1960) and ending with '' L'Eclisse'' (1962). It was one of Stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea Massari
Lea Massari, born Anna Maria Massetani (born 30 June 1933) is an actress and singer from Italy. Massari was born Anna Maria Massetani in Rome, but changed her name to Lea Massari when she was 22 after the death of her fiancé Leo. She studied architecture in Switzerland. Massari became known in art cinema for two roles: the missing girl Anna in Michelangelo Antonioni's ''L'avventura'' (1960), and as Clara, the mother of a sexually precocious 14-year-old boy named Laurent ( Benoît Ferreux) in Louis Malle's ''Murmur of the Heart'' (1971). Massari worked in both Italian and French cinema. Her career includes Sergio Leone's debut '' The Colossus of Rhodes'' (''Il Colosso di Rodi'', 1961) and international commercial films such as '' The Things of Life'' (''Les choses de la vie'', 1970). Massari was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975. After appearing in Francesco Rosi's ''Christ Stopped at Eboli '' (''Cristo si è fermato a Eboli'', 1979), Massari won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonino Guerra
Antonio "Tonino" Guerra (16 March 1920 – 21 March 2012) was an Italian poet, writer and screenwriter who collaborated with some of the most prominent film directors in the world. Life and work Guerra was born in Santarcangelo di Romagna. According to his obituary in ''The Guardian'', Guerra first started writing poetry when interned in a prison camp in Germany, after being rounded up at the age of 22 with other antifascists from Santarcangelo. At 30 he moved to Rome and worked as a schoolteacher. During this time he met Elio Petri, the future director of ''Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion'' (1970), who worked as assistant to Giuseppe De Santis. Guerra was able to get his first screenwriting credit after he and Petri went to the Abruzzi mountains to find out about wolf-hunting; "Though they discovered that wolf hunters no longer existed, De Santis went ahead anyway with the film, ''Uomini e Lupi'' (Men and Wolves, 1957)". Although a follower of Cesare Zavattini, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Scavarda
Aldo Scavarda (born 22 August 1923 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian cinematographer who collaborated with Michelangelo Antonioni (''L'Avventura'', 1960), Bernardo Bertolucci ('' Prima della rivoluzione'', 1964), Mauro Bolognini ('' La giornata ballorda'', 1960), Luigi Comencini ('' A cavallo della tigre'', 1961), Salvatore Samperi, Sergio Sollima, and others. In 1969, for his cinematography on Salvatore Samperi's ''Grazie, zia'' he won the Silver Ribbon prize. In 1975, he directed his only film '' La linea del fiume'', which won the Golden Gryphon prize at the Giffoni Film Festival The Giffoni International Film Festival is an Italian children's film festival which takes place annually in Giffoni Valle Piana, Campania. It began in 1971. The Giffoni International Film Festival typically has around 100,000 guests and has had ..., in 1976. Selected filmography * '' The Two Rivals'' (1960) * '' Un gioco per Eveline'' (1971) External links * 1923 births Living people It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elio Bartolini
Elio Bartolini (1922, Conegliano, Veneto, Italy, - April 30, 2006, Santa Marizza di Varmo, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy) was an Italian writer, screenwriter and poet. He was a co-author of screenplays of Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962 ...'s '' Il grido'' (1957), '' L'Avventura'' (1960) and '' L'Eclisse'' (1962). In 1975 he directed his only film, ''L'altro dio''. References External links * Elio Bartolini {{DEFAULTSORT:Bartolini, Elio 1922 births 2006 deaths 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male poets 20th-century Italian poets 20th-century Italian male writers Italian male screenwriters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Fusco
Giovanni Fusco (10 October 1906, Sant'Agata dei Goti, Benevento – 31 May 1968, Rome) was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor, who has written numerous film scores since 1936, including those of Alain Resnais's ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) and ''La guerre est finie'' (1966), as well as those of most of the 1948-1964 films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, from '' N.U.'' (''Nettezza Urbana'') to '' Il deserto rosso'', except for ''La notte'' (soundtrack by Giorgio Gaslini) and some of his early short films. Two of his soundtracks, those of Antonioni's ''Cronaca di un amore'' and ''L'avventura'', won Silver Ribbon for the best film score from Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists in 1951 and 1961, respectively. His brother Tarcisio Fusco was also a composer. His daughter was the operatic soprano Cecilia Fusco. Selected filmography * ''The Countess of Parma'' (1936) * '' Joe the Red'' (1936) * '' Doctor Antonio'' (1937) * '' The Sin of Rogelia Sanchez'' (1940) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
