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My Best Enemy (2006 Film)
''My Best Enemy'' ( it, Il mio miglior nemico) is a 2006 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Verdone. Plot summary Achille De Bellis is a wealthy manager of a large hotel chain, property of the family of his wife Gigliola for generations. While Gigliola is struggling with the preparations for their 25th wedding anniversary party, Achille fires a chronically depressed hotel maid (Annarita) for the theft of an expensive laptop. Annarita's son Orfeo, a 24 year old waiter stressed by his mother's depressive crises and by their unhappy economic situation, pleads with Achille to no avail. Embittered and angered by Achille's indifference to his plight, the young waiter decides to ruin Achille, he follows him to a secluded place outside the city, and he takes photos of Achille with his young and attractive sister-in-law Ramona. Orfeo persecutes the two lovers through intimidation and small acts of vandalism, until he openly threatens Achille to reveal his affair. Meanwhile, followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Verdone
Carlo Gregorio Verdone (born 17 November 1950) is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. Verdone is best known for his comedic roles in Italian classics, which he also wrote and directed. His career was jumpstarted by his first three successes, ''Un sacco bello'' (1980), '' Bianco, rosso e Verdone'' (1981) and '' Borotalco'' (1982). Since the 1990s, he has been introducing more serious subjects in his work, linked to the excesses of society and the individual's hardships in confronting it; some examples are '' Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrata'' (1992), ''Il mio miglior nemico'' (2006) and ''Io, loro e Lara'' (2010). Early life Carlo Verdone was born in Rome to Mario Verdone, an important Italian film critic and academic, and studied at the Italian Liceo classico in Rome, having the future actor Christian De Sica as his deskmate. Subsequently, Verdone earned a degree in Modern Literature at Sapienza University of Rome, the same university where his father t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Muccino
Silvio Muccino (born 14 April 1982) is an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. Biography Muccino was born in Rome, Italy, on 14 April 1982. After graduating from a Roman High School dedicated to the arts, he enrolled in the School of the Arts of Rome's La Sapienza University. He started his career in Italian cinema, usually playing lead roles in movies directed by his older brother Gabriele. His first appearance was in the film ''But Forever in My Mind ''(1999), where Muccino played the lead role of a student participating in a school occupation protesting student homologation. Muccino then went on to star in the movies ''Remember Me, My Love'' (2003) and ''Che ne sarà di noi'' (2004). After his early beginnings alongside his brother, Muccino then worked solo in other Italian movies such as ''The Card Player'' (2004, directed by Dario Argento), ''Manuale d'amore'' (2005), and ''Il mio miglior nemico'' (2005). In 2008 he made his debut as a director with the movie '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danilo Desideri
Danilo Desideri (born 13 July 1940) is an Italian cinematographer. Born in Rome, Desideri began his film career in the late 1950s as a camera assistant on the crew of Tonino Delli Colli.Stefano Masi, ''Dizionario mondiale dei direttori della fotografia'', Recco, Le Mani, 2007. . He later worked as a camera operator with Gianni Di Venanzo, Ennio Guarnieri, Giuseppe Rotunno, and Luigi Kuveiller, among others.Stefano Masi, ''Dizionario mondiale dei direttori della fotografia'', Recco, Le Mani, 2007. . After working in the advertising field, he made his debut as cinematographer for films in the late 60s;Stefano Masi, ''Dizionario mondiale dei direttori della fotografia'', Recco, Le Mani, 2007. . his first major production was the film ''In the Name of the Pope King'' (1977), directed by Luigi Magni.Stefano Masi, ''Dizionario mondiale dei direttori della fotografia'', Recco, Le Mani, 2007. . In 1983, he collaborated for the first time with Carlo Verdone, beginning a professional associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Buonvino
Paolo Buonvino (born 29 March 1968) is an Italian composer, musician, conductor, and music arranger. Life and career Buonvino was born on 29 March 1968 in Scordia, a comune in Sicily, Italy. He earned his Piano Bachelor-Degree from the Conservatorio Francesco Cilea in Reggio Calabria and a Master-Degree in Music Disciplines from the University of Bologna. At the beginning of his career, the composer found a mentor in Franco "Il Maestro" Battiato, who encouraged him to write music for film and television. In the late 1990s, he began to compose film scores and in 1999 he won the Cam/Rota Prize. In 2008 he won a David di Donatello for best score and a Nastro d'Argento in the same category for the film ''Quiet Chaos''. In 2009 he won a second Nastro d'Argento for the score of the film ''Italians''. It is in 1997 when the big occasion comes along, with the composition of the score for the eighth season of the massive TV hit, La piovra 8 (The Octopus), exported to over 80 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Caterina Morariu
Ana Caterina Morariu (born 20 November 1980) is a Romanian-born actress Italian naturalized. Life and career Born in Cluj-Napoca, the daughter of the classic ballet dancer Marineta Rodica Rotaru, at a young age Morariu moved to Italy with her mother, living between Tuscany and Calabria. She graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome in 2002, and the same year she started her career on stage. She became first known in 2004 through a series of roles in television series and TV movies. She appeared as Marie Cressay (fr) in the 2005 French miniseries ''Les Rois maudits''. In 2006 she was nominated for David di Donatello in the "best actress" category for her performance in Carlo Verdone's '' Il mio miglior nemico''. Morariu played in ''The Salento Murders'', a part-humorous two-episode 2010 detective TV show distributed by Eurochannel, directed by Antonello Grimaldi and starring Lino Banfi. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnese Nano
Agnese Nano (born 5 November 1965 in Rome) is an Italian film, television and theater actress. Her first appearance was in 1987 but she became famous after her role as the young "Elena Mendola" in ''Cinema Paradiso'' by Giuseppe Tornatore, in 1988. Nano felt that playing Elena "was a deeply nurturing experience, crucial for the development of her future career." Filmography *1988: '' It's Happening Tomorrow'', Daniele Luchetti *1988: ''Cinema Paradiso'', Giuseppe Tornatore *1990: '' Faccione'', Christian De Sica *1990: ''Adelaide'', Lucio Gaudino *1991: ''Steps On The Moon'', Claudio Antonino *1991: ''Baroque'', Claudio Sestrieri *1992: ''The Abdomen Of Maria'', Memé Perlini *1992: '' The Long Silence'', Margarethe von Trotta *1992: ''L'edera'', Edera *1993: ''Tired Men'', Lucio Gaudino *1994: ''The Summer Of Bobby Charlton'', Massimo Guglielmi *2001: ''Murderers in the festive days'', Damiano Damiani Damiano Damiani (23 July 1922 – 7 March 2013) was an Italian scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Comedy Films
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year Legendary film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' described 2006 as "an outstanding year for British cinema". He went on to emphasize, "Six of our well-established directors have made highly individual films of real distinction: Michael Winterbottom's '' A Cock and Bull Story'', Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'', Christopher Nolan's '' The Prestige'', Stephen Frears's '' The Queen'', Paul Greengrass's '' United 93'' and Nicholas Hytner's '' The History Boys''. Two young directors made confident debuts, both offering a jaundiced view of contemporary Britain: Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton. In addition the gifted Mexican Alfonso Cuaron came here to make the dystopian thriller '' Children of Men''." He also stated, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Comedy Films
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Films Directed By Carlo Verdone
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
