After "The Bird With the Crystal Plumage" became an international hit,
Argento followed up with two more thrillers,
The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971),
starring
'Karl Madlen' (qv" and 'James Fransiscus',
and
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
("Four Flies On Black Velvet"), both backed by his father Salvatore.
Argento then directed the TV drama
Testimone oculare (1973)
and the historical TV drama
The Five Days (1973). He
then went back to directing so-called "giallo" thrillers, starting with
Deep Red (1975), a violent
mystery-thriller starring
David Hemmings that inspired a
number of international directors in the thriller-horror genre. His
next work was Suspiria (1977), a surreal
horror film about a witch's coven that was inspired by the Gothic fairy
tales of the Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Anderson, which he also
wrote in collaboration with his girlfriend, screenwriter/actress
Daria Nicolodi, who acted in "Profondo
Rosso" ("Deep Red") and most of Argento's films from then to the late
1980s. Argento advanced the unfinished trilogy with
Inferno (1980), before returning to the
"giallo" genre with the gory
Tenebrae (1982), and then with the
haunting Phenomena (1985).
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# Registi italiani

by CineNihilist • Created 1 year ago • Modified 1 year ago

Lista di tutti i registi italiani di cui ho visto almeno un film in ordine di preferenza, e a cui assegnerò nella relativa descrizione il loro miglior film secondo i miei gusti personali, più il numero di film che ho visto.

I registi dei cinepanettoni li escludo a prescindere, non meritano di stare in questa lista, idem per i registucoli mediocri di fiction, commediole e altre stronzate italiote!

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- Sergio Leone in Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
- Director

Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (A.K.A. Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and U.S. directors working in Italy (usually making Biblical and Roman epics, much in vogue at the time). Towards the end of the 1950s he started writing screenplays, and began directing after taking over The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) in mid-shoot after its original director fell ill. His first solo feature, The Colossus of Rhodes (1961), was a routine Roman epic, but his second feature, A Fistful of Dollars (1964),
a shameless remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), caused a revolution. It was the first Spaghetti Western, and shot T.V. cowboy Clint Eastwood to stardom (Leone wanted Henry Fonda or Charles Bronson but couldn't afford them). The two sequels, For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), were shot on much higher budgets and were even more successful, though his masterpiece, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), in which Leone finally worked with Fonda and Bronson, was mutilated by Paramount Pictures and flopped at the U.S. box office. He directed Duck, You Sucker! (1971) reluctantly (as producer he hired Peter Bogdanovich to direct but he left before shooting began), and turned down offers to direct The Godfather (1972) in favor of his dream project, which became Once Upon a Time in America (1984). He died in 1989 after preparing an even more expensive Soviet co-production on the World War II siege of Leningrad.

Miglior film: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
Totale film visti: 7

- Elio Petri in The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)

- Writer
- Director
- Actor

Miglior film: Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto
Totale film visti: 1

- Federico Fellini

- Writer
- Director
- Actor

The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated
in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that
Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams
were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like
Saraghina (the devil herself said the priests who ran his school) - and
the Gambettola farmhouse of his paternal grandmother would be
remembered in several films. His traveling salesman father Urbano
Fellini showed up in La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8½ (1963). His mother Ida Barbiani was
from Rome and accompanied him there in 1939. He enrolled in the
University of Rome. Intrigued by the image of reporters in American
films, he tried out the real life role of journalist and caught the
attention of several editors with his caricatures and cartoons and then
started submitting articles. Several articles were recycled into a
radio series about newlyweds "Cico and Pallina". Pallina was played by
acting student Giulietta Masina, who became his real life wife from October 30,
1943, until his death half a century later. The young Fellini loved
vaudeville and was befriended in 1940 by leading comedian Aldo Fabrizi.
Roberto Rossellini wanted Fabrizi to play Don Pietro in Rome, Open City (1945) and made the
contact through Fellini. Fellini worked on that film's script and is on
the credits for Rosselini's Paisan (1946). On that film he wandered into the
editing room, started observing how Italian films were made (a lot like
the old silent films with an emphasis on visual effects, dialogue
dubbed in later). Fellini in his mid-20s had found his life's
work.

Miglior film: 8½
Totale film visti: 12

- Dario Argento in Dracula 3D (2012)

- Writer
- Director
- Producer

Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the
first-born son of famed Italian producer
Salvatore Argento and Brazilian
fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for
filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by
his parents and other family members, including an aunt who told him
frighting bedtime stories. Argento based most of his thriller movies on
childhood trauma, yet his own--according to him--was a normal one.
Along with tales spun by his aunt, Argento was impressed by stories
from The Grimm Brothers,
Hans Christian Andersen and
Edgar Allan Poe. Argento started his
career writing for various film journal magazines while still in his
teens attending a Catholic high school. After graduation, instead of
going to college, Argento took a job as a columnist for the Rome daily
newspaper "Paese Sera". Inspired by the movies, he later found work as
a screenwriter and wrote several screenplays for a number of films, but
the most important were his western collaborations, which included
Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
and the Sergio Leone masterpiece
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).
After its release Argento wrote and directed his first movie,
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970),
which starred Tony Musante and and British
actress Suzy Kendall. It's a loose
adoption on Fredric Brown's novel "The
Screaming Mimi", which was made for his father's film company. Argento
wanted to direct the movie himself because he did not want any other
director messing up the production and his screenplay.

After "The Bird With the Crystal Plumage" became an international hit,
Argento followed up with two more thrillers,
The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971),
starring
'Karl Madlen' (qv" and 'James Fransiscus',
and
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
("Four Flies On Black Velvet"), both backed by his father Salvatore.
Argento then directed the TV drama
Testimone oculare (1973)
and the historical TV drama
The Five Days (1973). He
then went back to directing so-called "giallo" thrillers, starting with
Deep Red (1975), a violent
mystery-thriller starring
David Hemmings that inspired a
number of international directors in the thriller-horror genre. His
next work was Suspiria (1977), a surreal
horror film about a witch's coven that was inspired by the Gothic fairy
tales of the Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Anderson, which he also
wrote in collaboration with his girlfriend, screenwriter/actress
Daria Nicolodi, who acted in "Profondo
Rosso" ("Deep Red") and most of Argento's films from then to the late
1980s. Argento advanced the unfinished trilogy with
Inferno (1980), before returning to the
"giallo" genre with the gory
Tenebrae (1982), and then with the
haunting Phenomena (1985).

The lukewarm reviews for his films, however, caused Argento to slip
away from directing to producing and co-writing two
Lamberto Bava horror flicks,
Demons (1985) and
Demons 2 (1986).
Argento returned to directing with the "giallo" thriller
Opera (1987), which according to him was "a
very unpleasant experience", and no wonder: a rash of technical
problems delayed production, the lead actress
Vanessa Redgrave dropped out
before filming was to begin, Argento's father Salvatore died during
filming and his long-term girlfriend Daria broke off their
relationship. After the commercial box-office failure of "Opera",
Argento temporarily settled in the US, where he collaborated with
director George A. Romero on
the two-part horror-thriller
Two Evil Eyes (1990)
(he had previously collaborated with Romero on the horror action
thriller
Dawn of the Dead (1978)). While
still living in America, Argento appeared in small roles in several
films and directed another violent mystery thriller,
Trauma (1993), which starred his youngest
daughter Asia Argento from his long-term
relationship with Nicolodi.

Having always wanted to make a third chapter to his "Three Mothers"
horror films, Argento finally completed the trilogy in 2007 with the
release of Mother of Tears (2007),
which starred Asia Argento as a young woman trying to identify and stop
the last surviving evil witch from taking over the world. In addition
to his Gothic and violent style of storytelling, "La terza madre" has
many references to two of his previous films, "Suspiria" (1997) and
"Inferno" (1980), which is a must for fans of the trilogy.

His movies may be regarded by some critics and opponents as cheap and
overly violent, but second or third viewings show him to be a talented
writer/director with a penchant for original ideas and creative
directing.

Miglior film: Profondo Rosso
Totale film visti: 3

- Matteo Garrone at an event for Reality (2012)

- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
- Writer

Matteo Garrone was born in Rome in 1968. He is the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone, and a photographer. In 1996 he won the Sacher d'Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette (1996), that became one of the three episodes of his first feature film Land in Between (1996). He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for Gomorrah (2008). His film Reality (2012) competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix. His latest film Tale of Tales (2015) was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Miglior film: Gomorra
Totale film visti: 2

- Paolo Sorrentino at an event for This Must Be the Place (2011)

- Writer
- Director
- Producer

Director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino was born in Naples in 1970, and and became an orphan when he lost both of his parents at the age of 16. At the age of 25, after studying for a few years at the Faculty of Economics and Business in University of Naples Federico II, he decided to work in the film industry. His first full-length feature L'uomo in più, starring Toni Servillo and Andrea Renzi, was selected at the 2001 Venice Film Festival, achieved three nominations for the David di Donatello (the Italian Academy Awards) and won the Nastro d'Argento (the Italian cinema journalists Academy Award) for Best First Time Director. In 2004 he directed Le conseguenze dell'amore, selected in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and acclaimed by both Italian and International critics. The film won many important Italian awards, including five David di Donatello awards: for Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Actor and Cinematography. Three years later his third film L'amico di famiglia was also selected in Competition at Cannes. In 2008 another collaboration with Toni Servillo, Il Divo, became his third film to be selected in Competition at Cannes. The film was nominated for Best Make-Up at the Academy Awards® and won seven David di Donatello, five Ciak d'Oro and five Nastri d'Argento awards. He has also published a novel Hanno tutti ragione (Everybody's Right) in 2010, and two collections of short stories: Tony Pagoda e i suoi amici (2012), and Gli aspetti irrilevanti (2016). Hanno tutti region was warmly received by both critics and public and was short-listed for the Premio Strega, the most prestigious Italian literature award. As of 2021, seven of his 9 films have been presented in Competition at the Festival de Cannes, where Il Divo won the Prix du Jury in 2008. In 2014, his film La Grande Bellezza won the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as a BAFTA and five EFA Awards. In 2016, La Giovinezza gained an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song and two Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song. The film won three European Film Awards. In 2016, he made his first TV Series: The Young Pope. In 2021, È stata la mano di Dio won the Grand Jury Prize at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.

Miglior film: Le conseguenze dell'amore
Totale film visti: 5

- Producer
- Writer
- Director

Miglior film: Il primo re
Totale film visti: 3

- La Biennale di Venezia

- Director
- Producer
- Actor

Gabriele Mainetti (born November 7, 1976) is an Italian actor,
director, composer and a film producer. He attended courses in
directing, screenwriting and cinematography at the Tisch School of the
Arts NY and improved his acting skills under the guide of important
masters as Beatrice Bracco, Francesca De Sapio, Nikolaj Karpov, Irina
Promptova and Michael Margotta in Italy. He began his career at theatre
in 1998. In that period, Gabriele played important roles in different
movies and TV shows (few examples: Stiamo bene insieme, La omicidi,
Briciole, Rapidamente, Il cielo in una stanza, Un altro anno e poi
cresco, etc.). After this successful experience he focused on short
films direction achieving important results: his last release, entitled
Tiger Boy (2012), has won important prizes around the world as the
Renault Award for Best International Short Film (Academy® Accredited)
at the Flickerfest International Film Festival 2013 (in Australia), as
well as the Grand Prix du Film Court de la Ville de Brest at the 27°
Brest European Short Film Festival (in Bretagne, North of France).
Tiger Boy has also competed with other short-films at the Santa Barbara
Film Festival as the only European guest. Afterward, the movie received
others important Italian awards: the Nastri d'argento 2013 as Best
Short Film and receiving the Best Short Film nomination at the Globi
D'oro 2012 and at the David di Donatello 2012. Tiger Boy reached the
second position at the Giffoni Film Festival 2012. Gabriele Mainetti is
also known for another short release entitled Basette (Sideburns,
2008), which has participated to more than 50 festivals like the
Locarno Film Festival and again, the Nastri d'Argento 2008, where the
short received the prize for the Best Actors (Daniele Liotti and Luisa
Ranieri) and a Special mention for Best Screenplay (Nicola
Guaglianone). Furthermore, Basette won as the Best Short Film at the
Festival del Corto della 25 ora, in a popular Italian TV show. He is
now preparing his first feature film.

Miglior film: Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot
Totale film visti: 2

- Writer
- Director
- Producer

Miglior film: Smetto quando voglio - Masterclass
Totale film visti: 4

- Director Bernardo Bertolucci celebrates his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 19, 2013 in Hollywood, California.

- Writer
- Director
- Producer

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director whose films were known for their colorful visual style, was born in Parma, Italy. He attended Rome University and became famous as a poet. He served as assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini in the film Accattone (1961) and directed The Grim Reaper (1962). His second film, Before the Revolution (1964), which was released in 1971, received an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay. Bertolucci also received an Academy Award nomination as best director for Last Tango in Paris (1972), and the best director and best screenplay for the film The Last Emperor (1987), which walked away with nine Academy Awards.

Miglior film: L'ultimo imperatore
Totale film visti: 2

- Marco Bellocchio in Dormant Beauty (2012)

- Writer
- Director
- Actor

Marco Bellocchio is one of the most consistent and most adventurous of today's Italian directors-an achievement all the more remarkable given that he made his feature debut almost fifty years ago. Over those years, he has amassed a body of films that encompasses a large number of original screenplays, adaptations of the likes of Pirandello and Kleist and personal, quasi-autobiographical work. What unifies these films is the beauty and originality of Bellocchio's images and his unceasing quest to understand the place of the individual in contemporary Italy and contemporary cinema. After making a few shorts, Bellocchio announced himself with his ferocious first feature, the acclaimed Fists in the Pocket (1965). This caustic and anarchic look at an extremely troubled family launched him instantly to the first ranks of the Italian film scene, alongside Antonioni, Pasolini and Bertolucci. For the next several years, films such as China Is Near (1967) and In the Name of the Father (1971) found Bellocchio examining the turbulent world of leftist politics and revolutionary dreams with an eye both sympathetic and jaundiced. During the 1980s and 1990s, under the spell of unorthodox-and, to some, controversial-psychoanalyst Massimo Fagioli, Bellocchio's emphasis turned to examining the interweaving of family dynamics and sexual desire as they produce and undermine personal identities. Films such as A Leap in the Dark (1980) and Devil in the Flesh (1986) create complex allegories of an audacious originality. More recently, Bellocchio has turned to more straightforward narratives in a number of films that examine Italy's recent past and its present, from The Nanny (1999) to one of his most recent works, Dormant Beauty (2012). Shifting brilliantly from realist fiction to archival footage to the imagery of dream or fantasy, all within a single film, this recent period has returned Bellocchio to the forefront of contemporary cinema, while combining the lessons learned from both the previous political and allegorical work. What has remained constant is Bellocchio's searching critique of the institutions that control individuals and organize the flow of power: the army, political parties, schools, the state and its laws, the Church, and the family.

Miglior film: Il traditore
Totale film visti: 2
Serie TV: 1

- Mario Monicelli

- Writer
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Miglior film: La grande guerra
Totale film visti: 3

- Vittorio De Sica

- Actor
- Director
- Writer

Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and
started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his
poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his
screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923.
By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee idol of the Italian
theatre, and repeated that achievement in Italian movies, mostly light
comedies. He turned to directing in 1940, making comedies in a similar
vein, but with his fifth film
The Children Are Watching Us (1943),
he revealed hitherto unsuspected depths and an extraordinarily
sensitive touch with actors, especially children. It was also the first
film he made with the writer
Cesare Zavattini with whom he would
subsequently make Shoeshine (1946) and
Bicycle Thieves (1948),
heartbreaking studies of poverty in postwar Italy which won special
Oscars before the foreign film category was officially established.
After the box-office disaster of
Umberto D. (1952), a relentlessly
bleak study of the problems of old age, he returned to directing
lighter work, appearing in front of the camera more frequently.
Although
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) won
him another Oscar, it was generally accepted that his career as one of
the great directors was over. However, just before he died he made
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970),
which won him yet another Oscar, and his final film
A Brief Vacation (1973). He
died following the removal of a cyst from his lungs.

Miglior film: La ciociara
Totale film visti: 1

- Luca Guadagnino at an event for I Am Love (2009)

- Director
- Producer
- Writer

Miglior film: Chiamami col tuo nome
Totale film visti: 2

- Shooting Gomorrah.

- Director
- Writer
- Producer

Miglior film: Suburra
Totale film visti: 2

- Actor
- Director
- Writer

Miglior film: Fantozzi
Totale film visti: 2

- Gabriele Salvatores at an event for I'm Not Scared (2003)

- Director
- Writer
- Actor

Salvatores attended school in the Lombard metropolis. He started doing theater there. After graduating from high school, Salvatores enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Milan in 1968. He then studied at the Accademia d''arte drammatica, a drama school at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. He completed his training with a diploma. It was the time of the student protests, which were particularly massive in Milan in the context of the left-wing radical movement "Lotta Continua". Salvatores took an active part and was involved in the newly emerging proletarian street theater. In 1972 Salvatores was among the co-founders of the Teatro dell''Elfo in Milan. In the following 10 years he played for this theater, for which he staged 21 performances. The musical that Salvatore staged from William Shakespeare's "Sogno di una notte di mezza estate" was a particular success.

He made his first feature film under the same title in 1983, which received an award in Venice. Salvatores became known to a larger Italian cinema audience primarily through the comedies "Marrakech Express" (1989) and "Turné" (1990), which dealt with his own political and social experiences. The director made a name for himself in international film with "Mediterraneo" (1991). The tragicomic film received an Oscar for best foreign contribution and, against the backdrop of the Italian military occupation of a Greek island during the Second World War, depicts the rapprochement between the occupiers and the locals. Salvatore's next film "Puerto Escondido" (1992) is set in Italy and Latin America. With "Sud" (1993), the director finally presented a sensitive study of the Italian south, his true home.

The following films "Nirvana" (1997), "Denti" (2000) and "Amnesia" (2001) were mainly known in Italian cinema. The Italian television broadcast of Salvatore's film "Io non ho paura" (2003) in April 2005 was a complete success: 35% of viewers saw the film. In May 2005, Salvatore's "Quo vadis, baby?" before, the film adaptation of a novel by Grazia Verasani, in which a female protagonist goes in search of her sister.

Miglior film: Io non ho paura
Totale film visti: 2

- ''Father of Italian Horror Film'' Mario Bava was the greatest Italian Horror Filmmaker in the 20th. century who mostly known for Black Sunday (1960) and A Bay of Blood (1971).    A Still in the extended version of the film. 

- Cinematographer
- Special Effects
- Director

Italian director Mario Bava was born on July 31, 1914 in the coastal
northern Italian town of Sanremo. His father,
Eugenio Bava (1886-1966), was a
cinematographer in the early days of the Italian film industry. Bava
was trained as a painter, and when he eventually followed his father
into film photography his artistic background led him to a strong
belief in the importance of visual composition in filmmaking.

Other than a series of short films in the 1940s which he directed, Bava
was a cinematographer until 1960. He developed a reputation as a
special effects genius, and was able to use optical trickery to great
success. Among the directors for whom Bava photographed films were
Paolo Heusch,
Riccardo Freda,
Jacques Tourneur and
Raoul Walsh. While working with Freda on
Lust of the Vampire (1957) in 1956, the director
left the project after an argument with the producers and the film
mostly unfinished. Bava stepped in and directed the majority of the
movie, finishing it on schedule. This film, also known as "The Devil's
Commandment", inspired a wave of gothic Italian horror films. After a
similar incident occurred on Freda's
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959),
and Bava's having been credited with "saving" Tourneur's
The Giant of Marathon (1959),
Galatea urged Bava to direct any film he wanted with their financing.

The film that emerged,
Black Sunday (1960),
is one his most well known as well as one of his best. This widely
influential movie also started the horror career of a beautiful but
then unknown British actress named
Barbara Steele. While Black Sunday is a
black and white film, it was in the color milieu that the director
excelled. The projects which followed began to develop stunning
photography, making great use of lighting, set design, and camera
positioning to compliment mise-en-scenes bathed in deep primaries.
Through works such as
Hercules in the Haunted World (1961),
The Whip and the Body (1963),
and
Planet of the Vampires (1965),
Bava's films took on the look of works of art. In the films
The Evil Eye (1963)
and
Blood and Black Lace (1964),
he created the style and substance of the giallo, a genre which would
be perfected in the later films of
Dario Argento.

Bava worked in many popular genres, including viking films, peplum,
spaghetti westerns, action, and even softcore, but it is his horror
films and giallo mystery films which stand out and for which he is best
remembered. Recommended are Black Sunday (1960), The Whip and the Body
(1963), Blood and Black Lace (1964),
Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966),
A Bay of Blood (1971), and
Lisa and the Devil (1973).
Bava's son Lamberto served as his assistant on most of his films since
1965, and since 1980 has been a director himself. Lamberto Bava's films
include Macabre (1980), Demons (1985) and Body Puzzle (1992).

But after the commercial failure of his later films, as well as the
unreleased works of
Rabid Dogs (1974), Bava went
into a decline and by 1975, retired from filmmaking all together. He
was persuaded to come out of retirement at the request of his son,
Lamberto, to direct Shock, as well as a made-for-Italian television
movie. Mario Bava died from a sudden heart
attack on April 27, 1980 at age 65. With his death, an era in Italian
filmmaking had come to a close.

Miglior film: Terrore nello spazio
Totale film visti: 2

- Writer
- Director
- Editor

Riccardo Freda was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Italian parents.
Educated in Milan, he became a sculptor, then a newspaper art critic.
He began a career in film in 1937 as a screenwriter and production
supervisor. He moved into directing in 1942, beginning a career that
lasted some 40 years. Resisting the strong neo-realism trend in postwar
Italy, Freda (with
Vittorio Cottafavi) continued to make
"historical spectacles", at which he became somewhat of a master. He
was a pioneer in Italy of horror-fantasy films, especially with
Lust of the Vampire (1957) and
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962).
From there he went to melodrama and spy films, and even made one
western.

Strong on visual style, Freda's films had popular appeal and were
usually commercial successes, several being French or other European
co-productions. Freda used a number of aliases during his career,
including "Robert Hampton", "Dick Jordan", "George Lincoln" and "Robert
Davidson", among others. Some critics have praised him as an
exploitation "stylist", and to this day his films have somewhat of a
cult following.

Miglior film: L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock
Totale film visti: 1

- Nanni Moretti

- Producer
- Writer
- Director

Nanni Moretti was born on the 19th of August, 1953. He lives in Rome, where since he was a kid he devotes himself to his two passions: cinema and water-polo. In 1970 he also played in water-polo first division in Italy, and in the junior National team. In those years he was also very committed in politics, within the youth league of the Italian Communist Party. Once finished high school studies, he sold his stamps collection to buy a super8 cinema camera, using which he started shooting home-made short films with his friends in 1973. His professional movie-making career starts with Ecce bombo (1978). This was also his first nation-wide success, and still a cult-movie for many Italians.

Miglior film: Palombella Rossa
Totale film visti: 2

- Claudio Caligari

- Director
- Writer

Miglior film: Non essere cattivo
Totale film visti: 1

- Pupi Avati

- Writer
- Director
- Producer

Miglior film: La casa dalle finestre che ridono
Totale film visti: 1

- Mario Martone

- Director
- Writer
- Additional Crew

Miglior film: Nostalgia
Totale film visti: 1

- Director
- Producer
- Writer

Miglior film: Diabolik
Totale film visti: 2

- Antonio Manetti and Marco Manetti in Love and Bullets (2017)

- Director
- Producer
- Writer

Miglior film: Diabolik
Totale film visti: 2

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