Diapositiva 1

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The birth of cinema (video)
Italian neorealism
POLAND
GERMANY
FRANCE
ROMANIA
ITALY
SPAIN
TURKEY
GREECE
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Pedro Almodovar
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• Pedro Almodóvar, born on September 25, 1949 in
  Calzada de Calatrava, La Mancha, Spain.

By the time he moved to Madrid in the late
1960s,the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco had
shut down the national film school, fearing
creative dissent. So instead, Almodovar forged
ahead with his own education by watching
countless movies at the local theatre. While he
earned money working a day job at Telefonica,
Spain's national phone company, Almodovar bought
a Super-8 camera and began making numerous short
films.
 
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• After graduating , Almodovar broke through with
  his first commercial film, "Pepi, Luci, Bom and
  Other Girls Like Mom" (1980), a low-budget satire
  about female friendship and solidarity in the
  face of an oppressive society that was a success
  in Spain due to its campy style, outrageous humor
  and unbridled sexuality - all resulting from the
  newfound freedom of Franco's death. 

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• In 1986 it was the turn of "Matador".
• The following year, with his brother Augustin,
• founded his own production house, 'El Deseo'.
• In 1988 he signed his first great success,
• "Women on the Verge of a Nervous
• Breakdown", followed by, among others
• "Ties" (1990), "Live Flesh" (1997),
• "All About My mother "(1999, winner of the
• 2000 Oscar), " Talk to Her , which earned him an
  Oscar in 2003 for best Original Screenplay.
• His success continued with "La Mala educación"
  in 2004 while in 2006 he won the Cannes award for
  best screenplay with "Volver".

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François Truffaut
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FIRST ASSIGNMENT

• The year 1957 was an important one for him he
  married Madeleine Morgenstern, the daughter of an
  important film distributor, and founded his own
  production company "Les Films du Carrosse" named
  after Jean Renoir's La carrozza d'oro (1952)(The
  Golden Coach). He also directed Les mistons
  (1957), considered as the real first step of his
  cinematographic work.

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LE CINEMA SELON HITCHCOCK

• This is a book of interviews of
• Alfred Hitchcock, in which he was
• one of the first to show how Hitch
• was a real author first published
• 1966 "Le cinema selon Hitchcock" A
• compilation of some of his movies
• critiques "Les films de ma vie"
• Hitchcock/Truffaut The definitive
• study of Alfred Hitchcock by
• François Truffaut" (Revised Edition).

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THE 400 BLOWS

• It was released in 1959 and the primary
• focus of This work is on the life of a young
• character by the name of Antoine Doinel.
• This film follows this character through his
• troubled adolescence. He is caught in
• between an unstable parental relationship
• and an isolated youth. The film focuses on
• the real life events of the director, François
• Truffaut. From birth Truffaut was thrown into
• an undesired situation. He was registered as
• "A child born to an unknown father" in the
• hospital records. The 400 Blows marked the
• beginning of the French New Wave
• movement.

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Wim Wenders
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• Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders born in Düsseldorf on
  14 August 1945 is a German film director,
  playwright, author, photographer and film
  producer. Wenders failed his entry test at
  France's national film school IDHEC (now La
  Fémis), and instead became an engraver in the
  studio of Johnny Friedlander, an American artist,
  in Montparnasse. During this time, Wenders became
  fascinated with cinema and attended the
  University of Television and Film in Munich from
  1967 to 1970 . Since 1996, Wenders has been the
  president of the European Film Academy in Berlin.
  

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Der himmel uber berlin(1987)

• Maybe Wenders most famous Film.
• It is a poetical description of the city seen
  through the eyes of two angels.

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• Wenders began his career during the New German
  Cinema era of the late 1960s, making his feature
  directorial debut with Summer in the City (1970).
• In 1971, together with fourteen other German
  filmmakers, he started a production and
  distribution cooperative called "Filmverlag der
  Autoren". That company became the nucleus of the
  New German Cinema.

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• Wim Wenders became a member of the Academy of
  Arts Berlin in 1984. He was awarded honorary
  doctorates at the Sorbonne University in Paris
  (1989), the Theological Faculty of the University
  of Fribourg (1995), the University of Louvain
  (2005) and the Architectural Faculty of the
  University of Catania (2010). Currently he is
  teaching film as a professor at the University of
  Fine Arts of Hamburg.

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• "Lightning over Water" is a film about the life
  of his friend, and art director Nicholas Ray

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• "The State of Things", won him the Golden Lion
  at the Venice Festival of 1982, the first in a
  series of prestigious international
  acknowledgments.

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• The director was also in Italy, for example
• in Bolzano to commemorate the death of
• his friend and colleague Pina Bausch,
• with whom he was filming a movie
• about her life.Wenders was also at
• Badolato - the province of Catanzaro,
• extreme south of Italy- during the
• "Tarantella power", where he screened
• Flight, dedicated to the immigrants ,
• and then just Badolato,
• where first the door to the
• "stranger" (the Kurds)had been opened, and
  Statues,
• about another small town nearby, where today
  there are different nationalities, languages,
  cultures and traditions.

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Roman Polanski
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• Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933 . His
  father, was Polish and his mother, Russian.
  After going back to his fathers hometown,
  Krakow, he experienced the most terrible years of
  world war II. Since his father had Jewish roots,
  his whole family was deported to concentration
  camps, from which he and his son managed to
  escape. By the end of this harsh time, Roman
  Polanski found himself really keen on everything
  that had to do with Cinema. He began his career
  as a Film director. His most successful movies
  are Rosemarys baby, Chinatown, and The Pianist.
  Unfortunately his life wasnt only marked by
  massive achievements, but even shocking
  experiences his second wife was murdered 1969
  while he was in London shooting Rosemarys baby.

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ROSEMARYS BABY

• Rosemarys baby is adapted from the horror novel
  of the same name written by Ira Levin. The main
  character is Rosemary Woodhouse In the story,
  Guy,her husband lets Satan conceive a baby in her
  wifes womb in exchange of great success in the
  acting field. This horror/thriller movie was shot
  in USA and was a lot appreciated from the
  critics. The exemplary acting of Mia Farrow and
  John Cassavetes makes the film captivating and
  mysterious, which is exactly the intent of the
  director.
• With this movie, Roman Polanskis career takes
  off and it represents a turning point in his life.

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CHINATOWN

• Chinatown is the story of a private investigator,
  J. J. Gittes, who is hired by a woman who
  identifies herself as Evelyn Mulwray. She demands
  to investigate on her presumed husband, Hollis
  Mulwray. When the detective finds Mr. Mulwray
  with a young woman, and publishes the pictures of
  the scandal, the real Evelyn Mulwray shows up in
  Mr. Gittes office and threatens him of a
  lawsuit. Mr. Mulwrays is found lifeless and Mr.
  Gittes decides to look deeper into this story.
• This is the last movie that Roman Polanski shot
  in USA. Right after directing this film, he went
  back to Europe.

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THE PIANIST

• This is one of the most significant and
  successful movies that Roman Polanski has ever
  directed. The plot is set in Warsaw in 1939,just
  after the war has started and the pianist
  Wladyslaw Szpilman, tries to survive. There are
  people who are enslaved, others who are deported
  in concentration camps, . He is trying to stay
  alive like everyone else, with only one
  difference he is accompanied by music, his
  dearest friend. And Music is what saves him. The
  German officer Wilm Hosenfeld discovers that
  Wladyslaw is hiding in a house, and saves him
  because of his music . When Warsaw is getting
  cleared of Nazi Germans by Polish and Soviet
  troops, Mr. Hosenfeld is captured and dies in
  Soviet captivity. On the other hand, Wladyslaw
  Szpilman dies at the age of 88 in 2000.

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Costa Gravas
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• Constantinos Gavras was a greek-born naturalized
  french filmmaker, best known for films with
  political themes.Gavras was born in Loutra
  Iraias , Arcadia. His family spent the Second
  World War in a village in the Peloponnese, and
  moved to Athens after the war.When he finished
  high school Costa Gavras went to France,Paris,
  where he began his studies of law in 1951 at the
  Sorbonne. Like other young cineastes such as
  Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, he haunted
  the Cinematheque Francaise and the Left Bank
  repertory film theaters.

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• Former pupil of the Institute of High
  Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC) it was on a trip
  to Greece that he discovered Z, the Vassilis
  Vassilikos book about the assassination of a
  leftist leader covered up as an accident during
  the military junta.Gavras came to France at 20
  years old for the music his fascination for
  French literature and for the magic word
  "Louvre". He also draws a parallel between
  producing a film and a luthier's work.

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• The most important film of Gravas are
• Z (1969) Laveu (1974) Section speciale (1975).

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FERZAN OZPETEK
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FIRST ASSIGNMENTS

• After receiving stage experience with Julian
  Becks Living Theatre, he moved to the cinema ,
  by working as a director assistant to Massimo
  Troisi, Maurizio Ponzi, Ricky Tognazzi, Sergio
  Citti and Francesco Nuti. His first work was as
  Troisis assistant director for Scusate il
  ritardo, followed by Ponzis Sono contento,
  where he had a small role performing as a
  madonnaro.

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His directorial debut was with the film Hamam,
an Italian, Spanish and Turkish co-production.
The movie, released 1997, was presented at the
50th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.In 1999,
he directed Harem Suare, set in his native land
of Turkey, telling the tormented love story
between the sultans favourite, Safiye, and the
eunuch Nadir, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire
in the background. The story was written by
Özpetek himself in collaboration with Gianni
Romoli, who also produced the movie with Tilde
Corsi and their RC Production company. The film
was presented in the Un Certain Regard section at
the Cannes Film Festival, as well as at the
London Film Festival and at the Toronto
International Film Festival.
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In 2001, Özpetek directed His Secret Life (Le
Fate Ignoranti), starring Margherita Buy and
Stefano Accorsi, a sweet and easy to watch drama
about homosexuality and bonding and friendship of
several kinds of outsiders. The movie won
numerous awards including three Globi doro and
four Nastro d'Argento awards.
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Saturno Contro was released in
2007.This film focuses on contemporary 30- and
40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives
in an age in which the old certainties have
disappeared. Lorenzo (Luca Argentero) and Davide
(Pierfrancesco Favino) make their lives together
within a circle that includes Antonio (Stefano
Acorsi) and Angelica (Margherita Buy), married
with children Nerval (Serra Yilmaz) and her
policeman husband.
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Federico Fellini
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• Federico Fellini (Rimini, Italy- 20 January,
  1920/Rome, 31 October 1993) was an Italian film
  director and screenwriter. It is widely regarded
  as one of the greatest and most influential
  filmmakers in the history of world cinema. He won
  four Academy awards in the Best Foreign Language
  Film for his work as a director in 1993, he was
  awarded the Oscar for Lifetime Achievment. He
  also received the Palme dOR at the Cannes Film
  Festival(For the film La dolce vita) in 1960
  and many other Italian Awards

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I VITELLONI ( 1953) Remembering his youth spent
in Rimini here Fellini gives a pitiless and
sarcastic picture of a certain kind of lazy and
aimless young men in their wonderings on the
streets of Italy during the 50s
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(1954)
LA STRADA
The film portrays the journey of its two main
characters the brutish strongman played
by Anthony Quinn and a naïve young woman
(Giulietta Masina) on the road of Italy during
the 50s.
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LA DOLCE VITA(1960)starring Marcello
Mastroianni and Anita Eckberghas become the
Symbol of an age and made Via Veneto famous all
over the world.
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AMARCORD (1973)It is a
surrealistic movie and one of his most famous.It
is full of memories about his youth in Rimini
mixed with dreamlike images.

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THE CITY OF WOMEN

• The city of women (1980), accepted with
  respect, is described as tipically Fellini,
  a catalogue of directing evolution, a game with
  some gaps.
• Presented out of competition at the XXXIII Cannes
  Film Festival , it receives a rather negative
  criticism.

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• E LA NAVE VA(1983)
• A surrealistic film
• defined by Fellini
• a Picassian movie,
  
• set on a ship
  sailing
• from an imaginary
• Italian port
  during
• World WAR I.

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VITTORIO DE SICA AND ITALIAN NEOREALISM
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• VITTORIO DE SICA was born in Sora (FR) in 1901
  but moved with his poor family in Naples where
  at only sixteen started his career as actor in
  theatre.In 1933 he founded his own theatre
  company.
• In 1939 he began to direct films which started
  the Italian neorealism.In them he showed with
  brilliant skill the Italian middle and low
  classes of the time which were strifing to free
  themselves from poverty and injust privileges.He
  died in France in 1974.

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LA CIOCIARA(1960) with Sophia
Loren,Jean Paul Belmondo Raf Vallone.It showed
with harsh realism the atrocities of the II
world war.
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SCIUSCIA(1946) The title comes
from the English word shoe-shine and indicated
the job made by poor children after the war in
the streets of Naples.

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Ladri di biciclette (1948)ONE of the most famous
films in the history of cinema .It is the sad
storyof a father and his son looking for their
stolen bicycle in the streets of Rome full of
poor people who live a hard life just after the
II World War.