Italo Moscati

History

Italo Moscati (born, August 22, 1937) is an Italian writer, film director, and screenwriter. He was born in Milan and, since 1967, has lived and worked in Rome. Moscati has collaborated with many notable figures in Italian cinema and television, including Liliana Cavani, Luigi Comencini, and Giuliano Montaldo. He is also active as a theater and film critic for numerous newspapers and magazines and is a contributor to the Italian entertainment website Cineblog.it. He was also Deputy Director of RAI Educational and, for four years, worked as president of the Center of Contemporary Art in Prato. He has written many plays staged by Ugo Gregoretti, Piero Maccarinelli and Augusto Zucchi. Among his recent books are: Pasolini e il teorema del sesso; Il cattivo Eduardo; 2001– Un’altra Odissea; and Le scarpe di Jack Kerouac. Description above from the Wikipedia article Italo Moscati, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Glauber, Claro

Self

A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his film Claro (1975) and his relation with European auteurs in their filmic and political views.

1200 km of Beauty

Director

Twelve hundred kilometers is length of Italy, from the mountains of the North to the South Sea; from the white of the snow to the blue of the sea. The film is a trip to the peninsula made especially with the documents of the Istituto Luce, in whose archives appears an Italy from the early twentieth century, a long journey up to years close to ours. An articulated Italy, made up of different forms of Beauty, in a territory that has particular characteristics for each region, from Valle d'Aosta and Friuli Venezia Giulia, from Tuscany to Lazio, from Lombardy to Liguria, from Campania to Sicily and its islands; and so on. Twenty regions. The history of the territory, of the its landscape, life of its people and art have always been mixed. The spectacle of nature intertwines with the spectacle of Italian work and creativity, open to the world, loved and visited by the world. The film tells this Italy. Scenarios, art, work, landscapes, culture, shows, great people.

C'era una volta il prossimamente

Self

A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine

Looks back at the Sciuscià, its success abroad, its influence on later filmmakers, its Oscar win, and the social conditions at the time of its production.

Where Are You? I’m Here

Writer

A deaf man rebels against his controlling mother by dating a high-school drop-out who shares his disability.

Beyond Good and Evil

Screenplay

The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's philosophy, that is beyond all morality. Depicting Nietzsche's opium addiction and madness meritorious.

Milarepa

Screenplay

A story inspired by a classic text of Tibetan literature, Milarepa moves back and forth in time between the story of the title character, a mystic of the eleventh century and a young westerner whose travails are not very different, both being torn between the search for knowledge and a quest for power.

The Night Porter

Screenplay

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.

N.P.

Writer

A phrophetic Film about the fundamental problem of our times, that automatization of the production process ultimately eliminates human labour. In this fact lies the potential for the marxist liberation of the productive forces and the and the industrial genocide.

The Year of the Cannibals

Screenplay

On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.