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Mario Morra
Mario Morra (1935 – October 2024) was an Italian film editor, director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Rome, Morra began working as an assistant editor in the early 1960s, and made his debut as film editor in 1964.Roberto Poppi. "Morra, Mario". ''Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registi''. Gramese, 2002. p. 178. He gradually established himself as one of the most representative of his profession, very active in art films as well as in less ambitious works. In 1990 he was nominated to BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Giuseppe Tornatore's ''Cinema Paradiso''. In the 1970s and 1980s, Morra was also director or writer of several successful documentaries and Mondo films, often in collaboration with Antonio Climati, notably '' Turbo Time'', a documentary about the world of car and motorcycle racing. Morra died in October 2024, at the age of 89. At the 97th Academy Awards, his name was mentioned in the '' In Memoriam'' section. Selected filmography * '' The Glory B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
