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Madness (1980 Film)
''Madness'' () is a 1980 Italian crime-drama film directed by Fernando Di Leo and starring Joe Dallesandro. A low-budget film, it was shot in just twelve days. It was first supposed to be directed by Mario Gariazzo. The film was the last film Dallesandro shot in Italy before returning to United States. The Luis Bacalov's musical score is mainly recycled from his scores for Di Leo's ''Caliber 9'' and Maurizio Lucidi's '' The Designated Victim''. Plot (Note: this is the plot to the edited version, the unedited version has several more sex scenes.) Joe escapes from prison by scaling down a wall. To steal a car, he hits a guy with a rock. Another older man sees him, and attacks Joe with a pitchfork. Joe fights him and eventually knocks him out also, then picks up the pitchfork and kills the unconscious older man. He drives off. In an interesting version of social hacking, Joe meets an old man on the side of the road and gets the old man to tell him everything about a nearby house ( ...
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The Designated Victim
''The Designated Victim'' (, also known as '' Slam Out'') is a 1971 Italian giallo film directed by Maurizio Lucidi. Plot Ad executive Stefano Augenti (Milian) is at the height of his career, but has a tumultuous marriage to Luisa (Bartoli). Luisa, a socialite, refuses to fund his projects and resents his affair with French citizen Fabienne Béranger (Christine). On the street, Stefano meets the enigmatic Count Matteo Tiepolo (Clémenti), who warns it’ll be destiny if they meet four more times. Sure enough, they continue to cross paths, and when they meet at a party, Matteo speaks with Stefano alone on the boat ride home to imply he wants something out of their "friendship". On their fourth meeting, where Matteo deliberately seeks Stefano out, he mentions they’ve both got people in their lives they have problems with: Stefano bickering with Luisa, and Matteo’s brother fights with him and plays mind games constantly. Matteo insists they each kill the other’s respective fam ...
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Films Directed By Fernando Di Leo
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ...
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Italian Crime Drama Films
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1980 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1980 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1980 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Worldwide gross revenue The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1980. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1980. Events * April 29 – Sir Alfred Hitchcock, known as "The Master of Suspense", dies at his home in Bel Air, California, at the age of 80. * May 21 – '' The Empire Strikes Back'' is released and is the highest-grossing film of the year (just as its predecessor, '' Star Wars'', was three years prior). * June 9 – Richard Pryor sets himself on fire while free-basing cocaine and drinking 151-proof rum. Pryor ran down his ...
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1980 Crime Drama Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai, Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. 249) Deaths * Li Jue, Chinese warlord and regent * ...
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Kino International (company)
Kino Lorber is an international film distribution company based in New York City. Founded in 1977, it was originally known as Kino International until it was acquired by and merged into Lorber HT Digital in 2009. It specializes in art film, art house films, such as documentary films, classic and rarely seen films from earlier periods in the history of cinema, and world cinema. In addition to theatrical distribution, Kino Lorber releases films in the home entertainment market and has its own streaming services for its digital library. History 1976–2008; Founding as Kino International Kino Lorber was founded as Kino International in 1976 by Bill Pence, then vice president of Janus Films, and based in Colorado. It began by importing and releasing international films that may have not otherwise reached the market in the United States. The first films distributed by Kino were in association with Janus Films. In 1977, Kino International was purchased by Donald Krim who at the tim ...
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The Bloody Hands Of The Law
''The Bloody Hands of the Law'' () is a 1973 Italian crime film directed by Mario Gariazzo and starring Klaus Kinski. Cast * Philippe Leroy – Commissario Gianni De Carmine * Tony Norton – D'Amico * Silvia Monti – Linda De Carmine * Klaus Kinski – Vito Quattroni * Fausto Tozzi – Nicolò Patrovita * Pia Giancaro – Lilly Antonelli * Cyril Cusack – Giudice * Guido Alberti – Prof. Palmieri * Lincoln Tate – Joe Gambino * Marino Masé – Giuseppe di Leo * Luciano Rossi * Sergio Fantoni – Musante * Rosario Borelli – Salvatore Perrone * Tom Felleghy * Valentino Macchi * Lorenzo Fineschi * Denise O'Hara – Elsa Lutzer * Lorenzo Magnolia * Stelio Candelli Stelio Candelli (28 March 1931 – 14 April 2017) was an Italian actor known for his appearance in Spaghetti western films. Life and career Born in Trieste, the son of civil servants, in 1954 Candelli enrolled at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatic ... References External links * 1973 films Italian crime ...
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Maurizio Lucidi
Maurizio Lucidi (1932–2005) was an Italian director, screenwriter and editor, sometimes credited as Mark Lender. Born in Florence, Lucidi started his career as film editor in the early 1960s. In 1964 he was assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini on '' The Gospel According to St. Matthew''. He made his directorial debut in 1966 with the fantasy film '' Hercules the Avenger''; later he directed a number of genre films, especially Spaghetti Westerns. Selected filmography * '' The Changing of the Guard'' (1962) *'' My Name Is Pecos'' (1966) *'' Pecos Cleans Up'' (1967) *'' Halleluja for Django'' (1967) *'' La battaglia del Sinai'' (1969) *'' Probabilità zero'' (1968) *'' It Can Be Done Amigo'' (1971) *'' The Designated Victim'' (1971) *'' Stateline Motel'' (1973) *'' Due cuori, una cappella'' (1975) *''Street People Street people are people who live a public life on the streets of a city. Street people are frequently homeless, sometimes mentally ill, and often have a tr ...
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Mario Gariazzo
Mario Gariazzo (4 June 1930 – 18 March 2002) was an Italian screenwriter and film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role .... He wrote for 21 films between 1969 and 1992. He also directed 18 films between 1962 and 1992. He was born in Biella, Italy and died in Rome, Italy at age 71. Gariazzo is known to horror film fans for directing ''The Eerie Midnight Horror Show'' in 1974, and ''White Slave (film), White Slave'' in 1985. He also directed the 1978 Italian science fiction film ''Eyes Behind The Stars''. He worked with Klaus Kinski, Ivan Rassimov, Richard Harrison, Ray Lovelock, Martin Balsam and other genre stars. Selected filmography * ''Holy Water Joe'' (1971) spaghetti western starring Ty Hardin and Richard Harrison (actor), Richard Harrison * ''The Bloody ...
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Caliber 9
''Caliber 9'' (; also released as ''The Contract'') is a 1972 Italian poliziottesco film written and directed by Fernando Di Leo and starring Gastone Moschin, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bouchet, Philippe Leroy, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, and Lionel Stander. The film takes its title from the short story collection of the same name by Giorgio Scerbanenco, and is partially based on three of its stories. The musical score was composed by Luis Enriquez Bacalov and performed by the progressive rock band Osanna. ''Caliber 9'' is the first part in Di Leo's ''Milieu Trilogy'' of ''poliziotteschi'' films. It was followed by '' La mala ordina'' (''The Italian Connection'') in 1972 and ''Il Boss'' (''The Boss'') in 1973. In 2020, a direct sequel called ''Calibro 9'', was released. Plot After a stint in prison, small-time Milanese gangster Ugo Piazza is immediately harassed by his old associates, led by a powerful American launderer known simply as "The Americano" (or "The Mikado" in the En ...
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Luis Bacalov
Luis Enríquez Bacalov (30 August 1933 – 15 November 2017) was an Argentine (naturalized Italian) film composer and musical director. He learned music from Enrique Barenboim, father of Daniel Barenboim - conductor of the Berlin and Chicago orchestras, and from Berta Sujovolsky. He ventured into music for the cinema, and composed now-classic scores for many Spaghetti Western films. In the early 1970s he also collaborated with Italian progressive rock bands. Bacalov was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Original Score, winning it in 1996 for '' Il Postino''. Bacalov also composed significant works for chorus and orchestra. Before his death, he was the artistic director of the Orchestra della Magna Grecia in Taranto, Italy. Biography Luis Bacalov was born in Buenos Aires to a family of Bulgarian Jewish origin. He identified as a Jew but did not practice Judaism.Italian television, TG2 Mizar, 08.09.2014, La musica, il cinema e materia: Il vangelo secondo PPP vis(s ...
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