Alfio Contini (19 September 1927 – 23 March 2020)
Addio ad Alfio Contini, direttore della fotografia per Risi, Antonioni, Cavani, Fulci, Celentano
was an Italian cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the c ...
who collaborated with film directors such as Dino Risi
Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of '' commedia all'italiana''.
Biography
Risi was born in Milan. He had an ...
('' Il sorpasso'', 1962; '' La marcia su Roma'', 1963), Pasquale Festa Campanile
Pasquale Festa Campanile (28 July 1927 – 25 February 1986) was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist, best known as a prominent exponent of the commedia all'italiana genre.
Life and career
Born at Melfi, in the province o ...
(''La matriarca
''The Libertine'' (Italian: ''La matriarca'', lit. "The matriarch") is a 1968 Italian film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile.
Plot
This is a sex comedy film about Mimi (Catherine Spaak), a young widow who discovers that her recently deceased ...
'', 1968), Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci (; 17 June 1927 – 13 March 1996) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Although he worked in a wide array of genres through a career spanning nearly five decades, including comedies and Spaghetti Westerns, he garn ...
, Liliana Cavani
Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933, Carpi, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers from Emilia-Romagna that came into prominence in the 1970s, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier ...
('' Galileo'', 1968; ''The Night Porter
''The Night Porter'' ( it, Il portiere di notte) is a 1974 English-language Italian erotic psychological war drama film. Directed and co-written by Liliana Cavani, the film stars Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling, with Philippe Leroy, Gabr ...
'' 1974; ''Ripley's Game
''Ripley's Game'' (1974) is a psychological thriller by Patricia Highsmith, the third in her series about the con artist and murderer Tom Ripley.
Plot summary
Tom Ripley continues enjoying his wealthy lifestyle in Villeperce, France, with h ...
'', 2002), and 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'' (1 ...
(''Zabriskie Point
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'', 1970; '' Beyond the Clouds'', 1995). In 1996, he won the David di Donatello for Best Cinematography
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award for his work on ''Beyond the Clouds''.
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1927 births
Italian cinematographers
2020 deaths
David di Donatello winners
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