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24 articles available in total starting from 06/04/2007. Last article published on 14/07/2015.

Farewell to Trovajoli, a great master

The pianist and composer wrote music for films during Italian cinema’s golden age  

04/03/2013 | People | Italy

Farewell to Mariangela Melato

The great Milanese actress passed away at the age of 71 after a long battle with illness  

11/01/2013 | People | Italy

Farewell to Giuseppe Bertolucci

Director and screenwriter, director of Bologna's Cineteca for many years, he was the author of a variety of films, including Berlinguer I Love You with Roberto Benigni  

18/06/2012 | People | Italy

Goodbye to Marco Onorato, Garrone's director of photography

Onorato won several awards, including the European Film Award and the Golden Globe for Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah (2008)  

04/06/2012 | People | Italy

Andrea Crisanti, set designer for Antonioni,Taviani, Tornatore and Tarkovskij, has passed away

He started with Mario Monicelli's The Great War in 1959 and over the years he has worked with some of the greatest masters of Italian cinema. A member of EFA, he was the head of the Scuola...  

08/05/2012 | People | Italy

Tonino Guerra, screenwriter for Fellini, Antonioni De Sica and Tarkovskij, dies

He had turned 92 on March 16. Films written by Guerra include Amarcord, Zabriskie Point, Nostalghia, Marriage Italian-style  

21/03/2012 | People | Italy

Benigni enters Wrong Picture for Woody

The news was confirmed by Roberto Benigni’s press office: the Tuscan actor-comedian will appear in the new film by Woody Allen, The Wrong Picture. The juicy rumours started circling the US film...  

06/05/2011 | People | Italy

Mario Monicelli commits suicide at 95

Director Mario Monicelli, considered the father of the commedia all'Italiana, committed suicide yesterday by jumping from the window of the hospital in which he had just been admitted for a tumor....  

29/11/2010 | People | Italy

Film world says goodbye to Dino De Laurentiis

He produced films that made film history, from Federico Fellini’s La Strada to Ridley Scott’s Hannibal. Dino De Laurentiis, born in Torre Annunziata in 1919 and a US citizen since 1986, passed...  

11/11/2010 | People | Italy

Goodbye Corso Salani, the voice of Europe

Actor and director Corso Salani died yesterday evening at the age of 48. The cause of death is cardiac arrest. At the time, the Florence native was on the coast near Rome with his wife Margherita....  

17/06/2010 | People | Italy

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