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By Kevin B. Lee [ Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? ] _____________________ Dino Risi, who passed away this June to little fanfare, helmed nearly 80 features over a career spanning seven decades, the most...
“Nobody had every done anything like this before” –Bebe Barron (1925 – 2008) on Anais Nin January 22 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979) February 13 - Henri Salvador, French singer (b. 1917) February 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1922) February 18 - Teo Macero, American record producer February 21 - Joe Gibbs, Jamaican [...]
screened December 28 2008 on VHS in Weehawken NJ TSPDT rank #828 IMDb Wiki Dino Risi, who passed away this June to little fanfare, helmed nearly 80 features over a career spanning seven decades, the most celebrated of them being this road comedy, one of the early influencers of the genre. A mild-mannered student (Jean-Louis Trintignant, more [...]
Don’t watch this clip if you don’t want to cry. I’m one of those people who cries at commercials, but I think this very moving tribute to the people in show business we lost in 2008 will make almost everyone tear up. There are a lot of actors and actresses here I didn’t remember passing [...]
Rome - Rome Film Festival organizers unveiled Wednesday this year's 150-film lineup, including 8, a United Nations-backed movie on poverty which features India's Mira Nair, Mauritania's Abderrahmane Sissako and Germany's Wim Wenders among the contrib...
In October there is yet another reason to visit Rome. The Traiano Hotel reminds all film aficionados of their date with the International Film Festival in Rome….so many events contained within one, single, large and important appointment which is not to be missed! Venice has not even begun and already people are talking about Rome which, from 22/10/2008 to 31/10/2008, will be presenting the
Welcome to the Carnival of Cinema. Each week we compile the best in cinema-related posts from around the world. Movie reviews, commentary, news and industry advice, we have the best waiting for you. We open this week with the late Dino Risi . Dino Risi was an influential director of Italian comedy. Even if you're not familiar with Italian cinema, you're probably still familiar with at least one of...
23 December, 1916, in Milan. 7 June, 2008, in Rome, aged 91.DINO Risi was an Italian film-maker whose searing satires about the newfound prosperity of his countrymen during the Italian "economic miracle" of the 1950s and 1960s helped establish a new style that became internationally known as commedia all'italiana . Among more than 80 movies, segments for compilation films, documentaries and television...
23 December, 1916, in Milan. 7 June, 2008, in Rome, aged 91.DINO Risi was an Italian film-maker whose searing satires about the newfound prosperity of his countrymen during the Italian "economic miracle" of the 1950s and 1960s helped establish a new style that became internationally known as commedia all'italiana . Among more than 80 movies, segments for compilation films, documentaries and television...
I’ve been enjoying the blazing debate over the importance of acting in the movies that has taken over the Sydney Pollack thread. To me, acting remains a mysterious, unquantifiable activity that I have never really learned to discuss in critical terms. Actors, however, are something else, and I’ve never doubted their central importance [...]
Film News: 'Scent' was Oscar nominated -- Dino Risi, an undisputed master of Italy's postwar Commedia all'Italiana genre and the Oscar-nominated writer behind the original "Scent of a Woman," which he also directed, and other classics including Vittorio Gassman starrer "Il sorpasso" ("The Easy Life") died of heart failure June 7 in Rome. He was 91.
Film director Dino Risi, who chronicled the bittersweet and lighter side of Italy’s post-war economic boom, died on Saturday, the residence where he lived said.
ROME (Reuters) - Film director Dino Risi, who chronicled the bittersweet and lighter side of Italy's post-war economic boom, died on Saturday, the residence where he lived said.
