Italian Cinema

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Italian Cinema
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Outline

• Introduction
• Part I. History of Italian Cinema
• Part II. Actors and directors
• Part III. Giuseppe Tornatore
• Conclusion
• References

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Introduction

• Like many countries, Italy suffers from American
  dominant position
• Italy, however, has an original and independent
  cinema
• Homeland of one of the most important movement in
  the artistic history of cinema Neorealism
• Many actors and directors of Italian origin have
  succeeded in Hollywood

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Sergio LeoneOnce Upon a time in America
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Part I. History of Italian Cinema

• 1899 First projection in Roma, by Luigi Topi
• 1918 Crisis of Italian cinema
• 1930 the first Italian sound film was made,
  called "La canzone dell'amore ("The Song of
  Love")
• The first important postwar film movement came
  from Italy, and was called Neorealism
• Committed to rendering social actuality as art
• Worldwide acclaim, but controversial within Italy
  for its critical views of contemporary society

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Part I. History of Italian Cinema

• During the Sixties Italian cinema also became
  experimental with directors such as Antonioni, in
  the avant-garde works of Mario Bava and Sergio
  Leone, and the poetic worlds of Federico Fellini
  and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
• La Dolce vita became an extraordinary
  phenomenon
• Actually, Italian cinema is relatively prosperous
  tanks to Roberto Benigni (Life is beautiful),
  Giuseppe Tornatore (1900) and Nanni Moretti (La
  Stanza del figlio)

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Part II. Actors and directors
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a. Actors

• Italian actors
• Roberto Benigni, Claudia Cardinale,
• Marcello Mastroiani, Monica Bellucci, Sophia
  Loren, Isabella Rossellini, Ornella Muti,
• Italian-American actors
• Téa Leoni, John Travolta, Frank Sinatra, Al
  Pacino, Marlon Brando, Nicolas Cage, Robert De
  Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Henry Fonda

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b. Directors

• Roberto Rossellini, Roma, città aperta (1945)
  (Rome, Open City, 1945)
• Vittorio De Sica Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle
  Thief, 1948 and Umberto D. (1952)
• Luchino Visconti made what is often considered
  the first neorealist film, Ossessione (Obsession,
  1942)
• Federico Fellini made Dolce vita, La (1960)
• Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Emperor, The (1987),
  Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972)
• Sergio Leone, Ben-Hur (1959) (second unit
  director), Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

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Part III. Giuseppe Tornatore

• Tornatore, born in 1956, in Sicily, Italian
  director.
• Movies
• Malèna (2000), Leggenda del pianista sull'oceano,
  La (1998), Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)

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Conclusion

• La Vita è bella, ranked 58 on the best loved
  movies of all time
• American cinema is clearly the leading cinema,
  but Italy is one of the few countries still
  having an independent cinema industry
• Some directors like Benigni and Tornatore have
  earned worldwide acclaim
• Italy has one of the most important international
  festival la Mostra, in Venice

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References

• http//140.128.2.67/1000110068/html/cineitaly.htm
• http//www.italica.com/cinemaparadiso/italian/inde
  x.htm
• http//www.poster21.com/Poster/text.php3?tN
• http//www.italiamia.com/celebrities.html