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Sex Quartet
''Sex Quartet'' (US title: ''The Queens'', , ) is a 1966 Italian-French comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, Mauro Bolognini, Antonio Pietrangeli and Luciano Salce. It starred Capucine, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti and Raquel Welch. Plot Four unrelated shorts by four different directors. "Queen Sabina" chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving opportunistic gypsy babysitter who uses her employer's kids for her own gain. The third episode, "Queen Elena" centers on a husband who learns a lesson about the perils of infidelity after he succumbs to the wiles of the seductive wife next door. The last vignette, "Queen Marta" centers on a wealthy woman who, when drunk, uses her butler as an outlet for her lust. Cast * Monica Vitti as Sabina (segment "Fata Sabina") * Enrico Maria Salerno as Gianni (segment "Fata Sabina") * Claudia Cardinale as Armenia (segment "Fata Armenia") * Gastone Moschin as Dr. Aldini (se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Salce
Luciano Salce (25 September 1922 – 17 December 1989) was an Italian film director, comedian, television host, producer, actor and lyricist. His 1962 film ''Le pillole di Ercole'' was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. As a writer of pop music, he used the pseudonym Pilantra. During World War II, he was a prisoner in Germany. He later worked for several years in Brazil. Selected filmography Director * ''A Flea on the Scales'' (1953) * ''Floradas na serra'' (1954) * ''The Fascist (film), The Fascist'' (1961) * ''Le pillole di Ercole'' (1962) * ''La voglia matta'' (1962) * ''La cuccagna'' (1962) * ''Le ore dell'amore'' (1963) * ''Alta infedeltà'' (1964) * ''El Greco (1966 film), El Greco'' (1964) * ''Slalom (1965 film), Slalom'' (1965) * ''The Man, the Woman and the Money'' (1965) * ''Le fate'' (1966) * ''Come imparai ad amare le donne'' (1967) * ''Ti ho sposato per allegria'' (1967) * ''The Black Sheep (1968 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capucine
Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre (, 6 January 1928 – 17 March 1990), known by her stage name Capucine (), was a French fashion model and actress known for her comedic roles in ''The Pink Panther'' (1963) and '' What's New Pussycat?'' (1965). She appeared in 36 films and 17 television productions between 1948 and 1990. Early life Capucine was born Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre on 6 January 1928 in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France. She often confused the date of her birth by claiming that she was born in 1931 or 1933, and most sources indicate those years. She attended school in Saumur, France, and earned Bachelor of Arts degree in foreign languages. In 1945, at age 17, while riding in a carriage in Paris, Lefebvre was noticed by a commercial photographer. Adopting the French name of a flower, "Capucine" (nasturtium, '' Tropaeolum''), she became a fashion model, working for the fashion houses Givenchy and Christian Dior. Capucine met Audrey Hepburn while modeling for Givench ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Trade name, doing business as Columbia Pictures, is an American film Production company, production and Film distributor, distribution company that is the flagship unit of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Major film studios, "Big Five" film studios and a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony, Sony Group Corporation. On June 19, 1918, brothers Jack Cohn, Jack and Harry Cohn and their business partner Joe Brandt founded the studio as CBC Film Sales Corporation, Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name on January 10, 1924 (operating as Columbia Pictures Corporation until December 23, 1968), went public two years later, and eventually began to use the image of Columbia (personification), Columbia, the female personification of the United States, as its logo. In its early years, Columbia was a minor player in Hollywood, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technicolor
Technicolor is a family of Color motion picture film, color motion picture processes. The first version, Process 1, was introduced in 1916, and improved versions followed over several decades. Definitive Technicolor movies using three black-and-white films running through a special camera (3-strip Technicolor or Process 4) started in the early 1930s and continued through to the mid-1950s, when the 3-strip camera was replaced by a standard camera loaded with single-strip "monopack" color negative film. Technicolor Laboratories were still able to produce Technicolor prints by creating three black-and-white matrices from the Eastmancolor negative (Process 5). Process 4 was the second major color process, after Britain's Kinemacolor (used between 1909 and 1915), and the most widely used color process in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Technicolor's #Process 4: Development and introduction, three-color process became known and cele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Montanari
Sergio Montanari (22 October 1937 – 23 March 1999) was an Italian film editor who was born in Rome and died ibidem. (aged 61) He began his career as assistant editor in the late 1950s in films such as Song of Naples and The Sword and the Cross and In more than thirty years of his career he has worked on the participated in over 150 productions. Partial filmography * '' The Climax'' (1967) * '' For a Few Dollars Less'' (1966) * ''Django'' (1966) *'' The Birds, the Bees and the Italians'' (1966) *''Texas, Adios'' (1996) * '' The Crazy Kids of the War (1967)'' * '' God Forgives... I Don't! (1967)'' * '' The Wild Eye (1967)'' * '' Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre (1967)'' *'' Hate for Hate'' (1967) *'' Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!'' (1968) *'' Frame Up'' (1968) *'' Seven Times Seven'' (1968) *''The Lady of Monza'' (1969) *'' The Archangel'' (1969) *''The Invisible Woman The Invisible Woman is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggero Mastroianni
Ruggero Mastroianni (7 November 1929 – 9 September 1996) was an Italian film editor. In his obituary of Mastroianni, critic Tony Sloman described him as "arguably, the finest Italian film editor of his generation." Born in Turin, he was the brother of the actor Marcello Mastroianni and nephew of the sculptor Umberto Mastroianni. He had a significant collaboration with director Federico Fellini, whose films he edited for over twenty years; their work includes '' Giulietta degli spiriti'' (1965), ''Amarcord'' (1973), and '' Ginger and Fred'' (1986), the last of which features his brother. He had a similarly notable collaboration with director Luchino Visconti in films like '' Le Notti Bianche'' (1957), '' Morte a Venezia'' (1971), '' Ludwig'' (1972) and '' Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno'' (1974). He also edited the 1974 absurdist western comedy '' Don't Touch The White Woman!''. He won 5 David di Donatello Awards and 1 Nastro d'Argento as Best Editor. With his brother, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Fraticelli
Franco Fraticelli (30 August 1928 in Rome, Kingdom of Italy – 26 April 2012 in Rome, Italy) was an Italian film editor with more than 150 film credits. Fraticelli was director Dario Argento's editor of choice from his earliest films ('' The Bird with the Crystal Plumage''-1969) through ''Opera'' (1987). He also had an important collaboration with director Lina Wertmüller, commencing with her third film '' Rita the Mosquito'' (1966). Fraticelli edited nine more of her films through '' A Joke of Destiny'' (1983). In particular, Fraticelli edited ''Seven Beauties'' (1976). This film, which has been called her masterpiece, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. It was the first nomination of a woman for the award. Fraticelli was nominated for the David di Donatello award for editing '' Boys on the Outside'' (directed by Marco Risi - 1990); Fraticelli subsequently edited two more films with Risi, ''Nel Continente Nero'' (1993) and ''Kaputt Mundi''. In 2006 his caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Baragli
Nino Baragli (1 October 1925 – 29 May 2013) was an Italian film editor with more than 200 film credits. Among his films in English, ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' (1966) and '' Once Upon a Time in the West'' (1968), both directed by Sergio Leone, are perhaps the best known. Born in Rome as Giovanni Baragli, he was introduced in the film industry by his uncle, the renowned editor Eraldo Da Roma. He started his career in 1944 as film operator and assistant editor for ''Marinai senza stelle'' by Francesco De Robertis. An interview with Baragli was published in this book; it was translated in During his career he worked as editor in more than 200 productions between 1944 and 1996, including works by Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Leone, Damiano Damiani, Luigi Zampa, Giuliano Montaldo, Sergio Corbucci, Mauro Bolognini, Luigi Comencini, Cristina Comencini, Florestano Vancini, Gabriele Salvatores, Alberto Lattuada, Tinto Brass, Margarethe von Trotta, Pál Sándor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armando Nannuzzi
Armando Nannuzzi (21 September 1925 – 14 May 2001) was an Italian cinematographer and camera operator active from the 1940s until the 1990s. His career spanned six decades and over 100 films. Biography Nannuzzi briefly worked in the United States in the mid-1980s, and during this period he collaborated with horror novelist Stephen King on ''Maximum Overdrive'', King's directorial debut. An accident occurred on 31 July 1985, during shooting in a suburb of Wilmington, North Carolina, for ''Maximum Overdrive''. A radio controlled lawnmower used in a scene went out of control and struck a block of wood used as a camera support, shooting out wood splinters which injured Nannuzzi, the director of photography on the production. As a result, Nannuzzi lost his right eye. After the incident, Nannuzzi sued Stephen King, and 17 others on 18 February 1987 for $18 million in damages due to unsafe working practices. The suit was settled out of court. Other films in which he served as a ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Di Palma
Carlo Di Palma (17 April 19259 July 2004) was an Italian cinematographer, renowned for his work on both color and black-and-white films, whose most famous collaborations were with Michelangelo Antonioni and Woody Allen. Early life Carlo Di Palma was born into a poor Roman family; his mother was a flower seller on the Spanish Steps, while his father was a camera operator for a number of Italian film studios. In an interview shortly before his death, Di Palma recounted his childhood memories of observing his father in action: "I'd run to the studio or the location, and watch my father work. I was fascinated by the whole experience. I would stand on a crate sometimes and watch. All of the people that were on the location were pleasant to me. I was very quiet and observant, so with that they let me stay on set. I would watch many different directors over and over." Career Di Palma's collaborations with Antonioni included '' Il deserto rosso'' (1964); the "Il provino" segment in ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonida Barboni
Leonida Barboni (23 November 1909 – 6 November 1970) was an Italian film cinematographer. Life and career Born in Fiuminata, Macerata, Barboni started his career working as a cameraman for Fox Movietone and Paramount newsreels.Masi, Stefano. "Leonida Barboni" in Aa. Vv. ''Enciclopedia del Cinema Treccani''. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2003. He later worked as a cinematographer for documentaries, and in 1942 he made his feature film debut with ''La fanciulla dell'altra riva''. After the war Barboni started a critical acclaimed collaboration with the director Pietro Germi and with the set designer Carlo Egidi. His style was characterized by the proliferation of small light sources, a great attention to detail and by the use of 'deep focus' shots. He was the elder brother of the cinematographer and director Enzo Barboni. Selected filmography * '' A Night of Fame'' (1949) * '' In the Name of the Law'' (1949) * '' Sunday in August'' (1950) * ''Path of Hope'' (1950) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dario Di Palma
Dario Di Palma (6 November 1932 - 24 October 2004) was an Italian film cinematographer. Born in Rome, Di Palma began to work in the 1950s as camera operator and assistant camera operator, often with his uncle Carlo Di Palma as cinematographer.Stefano Masi, ''Dizionario mondiale dei direttori della fotografia, Vol. A-K'', Recco, Le Mani, 2007. , pp. 250-252. After taking care of the cinematography of the second unit for the peplum film ''Romulus and Remus'' (1961) by Sergio Corbucci, he began his career as cinematographer with two other peplum films, both directed by Alberto De Martino, '' Terrible Sheriff'' (1962) and ''Perseo l'invincibile'' (1963). In mid-1960s, he started working in more significant films, such as '' Un uomo a metà'' by Vittorio De Seta and '' Seasons of Our Love'' by Florestano Vancini. Di Palma later reached the peak of his career in the 1970s, when he signed the cinematography of notable titles such as Lina Wertmüller's '' The Seduction of Mimi'', Valerio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
