Silvano Agosti
Nacimiento : 1938-03-23, Brescia, Lombardia, Italia
Historia
Director de cine italiano, nacido en Brescia. Quizá fue una de sus películas más autobiográficas, Uova di garofano (1991), la que mostró de forma más certera la ideología de Agosti. Demasiado joven para comprender la guerra, pero perfectamente receptivo para sufrir sus secuelas, el director italiano, seguidor de la izquierda, enarboló la solidaridad y defendió al proletariado en más de una ocasión a lo largo de su filmografía. Agosti adoptó la fábula como una de sus opciones narrativas favorita. La utilizó en N.P. il segreto (1973), una historia futurista con un reparto llamativo en el que se encuentraban Ingrid Thulin, Irene Papas y Paco Rabal. Con la misma intención narrativa de desmarcarse de relatos realistas, hizo uso también de lo onírico y lo simbólico, hasta adjudicar a uno de sus protagonistas el nombre de Crimen. A pesar de esta evidente atención hacia una forma de relato muy determinada, Agosti declaró en diversas ocasiones que su interés residía más en los elementos visuales cinematográficos que en la opción narrativa. Además de dirigir cine, Agosti desempeñó labores de guionista, director de fotografía y montador. En su trabajo como director de documentales dejó títulos como Brescia (1974) o Runaway America (1982). Agosti también se interesó por el medio televisivo. La macchina cinema (1978) ganó el FIPRESCI (Premio que otorga la prensa) en el Festival de Berlín, dándole una vez más la oportunidad de codirigir junto a Bellocchio, Petraglia y Rulli, con quienes comparte títulos como Locos de desatar (1975) o Matti da stegare (1975).
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Self
Retrato de Ennio Morricone, el compositor de cine más popular y prolífico del siglo XX, uno de los más queridos por el público, dos veces ganador del Oscar y autor de más de quinientas partituras inolvidables. El documental presenta al Maestro a través de una larga entrevista realizada por Tornatore, testimonios de artistas y directores como Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuliano Montaldo, Marco Bellocchio, Dario Argento, los hermanos Taviani, Carlo Verdone, Barry Levinson, Roland Joffé, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Bruce Springsteen, Nicola Piovani, Hans Zimmer y Pat Metheny, música y material de archivo. El documental también se propone revelar el lado menos conocido de Morricone, como su pasión por el ajedrez, que puede tener vínculos misteriosos con su música. Así como el origen en la vida real de algunas de sus intuiciones musicales.
L’Isola del Cinema Festival visited Silvano Agosti in his historic hall in the Prati district of Rome. The meeting with the author, director, poet and philosopher, famous in the artistic world for his stubborn independence, with the young writer Stefano Scanu, gave rise to a long conversation about cinema, about life, about our future, about some of his films chosen as a tribute to the festival. This short film acquires a further value due to the sad coincidence of the definitive closure of the Azzurro Scipioni theatre a few days later, a mourning for all passionate and romantic Romans.
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.
Cinematography
“A future historian, if he or she is honest, will feel a legitimate need to place the decade 1968 to 1978 alongside the great events that changed the world, such as the French and Russian Revolutions”. This was the guiding idea to which we entrusted, with considerable emotion, our personal memory and the archive footage that we took and collected during those years and which represent the physical body of the battles fought and victories gained everywhere during those ten years. Their value, in a country like Italy which has lost its memory, is a rare witness to the power of human dignity in a constant struggle for its redemption.
Editor
“A future historian, if he or she is honest, will feel a legitimate need to place the decade 1968 to 1978 alongside the great events that changed the world, such as the French and Russian Revolutions”. This was the guiding idea to which we entrusted, with considerable emotion, our personal memory and the archive footage that we took and collected during those years and which represent the physical body of the battles fought and victories gained everywhere during those ten years. Their value, in a country like Italy which has lost its memory, is a rare witness to the power of human dignity in a constant struggle for its redemption.
Producer
“A future historian, if he or she is honest, will feel a legitimate need to place the decade 1968 to 1978 alongside the great events that changed the world, such as the French and Russian Revolutions”. This was the guiding idea to which we entrusted, with considerable emotion, our personal memory and the archive footage that we took and collected during those years and which represent the physical body of the battles fought and victories gained everywhere during those ten years. Their value, in a country like Italy which has lost its memory, is a rare witness to the power of human dignity in a constant struggle for its redemption.
Screenplay
“A future historian, if he or she is honest, will feel a legitimate need to place the decade 1968 to 1978 alongside the great events that changed the world, such as the French and Russian Revolutions”. This was the guiding idea to which we entrusted, with considerable emotion, our personal memory and the archive footage that we took and collected during those years and which represent the physical body of the battles fought and victories gained everywhere during those ten years. Their value, in a country like Italy which has lost its memory, is a rare witness to the power of human dignity in a constant struggle for its redemption.
Director
“A future historian, if he or she is honest, will feel a legitimate need to place the decade 1968 to 1978 alongside the great events that changed the world, such as the French and Russian Revolutions”. This was the guiding idea to which we entrusted, with considerable emotion, our personal memory and the archive footage that we took and collected during those years and which represent the physical body of the battles fought and victories gained everywhere during those ten years. Their value, in a country like Italy which has lost its memory, is a rare witness to the power of human dignity in a constant struggle for its redemption.
Director
Self
A journey in the footsteps of the most famous initiate of Italian Trecento, the author of the celebrated "Divine Comedy". A poet who has inspired some of the most outstanding minds in History.
Barbone
Director
Sauro
Mario Bettini, aparejador de provincia, es un joven rico de ideas, entusiasta de la vida y lleno de ganas de vivirla. Tiene un sueño en el corazón: abrir un local con sus propios amigos, ¿quién no ha soñado nunca en abrir uno? Todo su entusiasmo, sus ideas, sus proyectos serán vividos de golpe por el mundo que lo rodea como una enfermedad contagiosa que hay que curar con urgencia... (FILMAFFINITY)
Editor
A married couple lives for fifteen years in the desert of marriage in an unnatural sentimental existence. Then the question of an abortion arises. The absence of a reciprocal desire causes a heavy and untrue behavior. They are practically two puppets. But one day something special happens in their life. A new existence starts, based on a more careful attention of the one for the other. The search of a love' s desire finally becomes credible and needed. And day by day the two rediscover themselves and learn how to really love each other.
Cinematography
A married couple lives for fifteen years in the desert of marriage in an unnatural sentimental existence. Then the question of an abortion arises. The absence of a reciprocal desire causes a heavy and untrue behavior. They are practically two puppets. But one day something special happens in their life. A new existence starts, based on a more careful attention of the one for the other. The search of a love' s desire finally becomes credible and needed. And day by day the two rediscover themselves and learn how to really love each other.
Writer
A married couple lives for fifteen years in the desert of marriage in an unnatural sentimental existence. Then the question of an abortion arises. The absence of a reciprocal desire causes a heavy and untrue behavior. They are practically two puppets. But one day something special happens in their life. A new existence starts, based on a more careful attention of the one for the other. The search of a love' s desire finally becomes credible and needed. And day by day the two rediscover themselves and learn how to really love each other.
Director
A married couple lives for fifteen years in the desert of marriage in an unnatural sentimental existence. Then the question of an abortion arises. The absence of a reciprocal desire causes a heavy and untrue behavior. They are practically two puppets. But one day something special happens in their life. A new existence starts, based on a more careful attention of the one for the other. The search of a love' s desire finally becomes credible and needed. And day by day the two rediscover themselves and learn how to really love each other.
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Cinematography
Editor
A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II. The deserted and desolate rooms make him travel back in memory to the time when the war was ending. Episodes of family life pass before his eyes: father, mother, grandmother and six children, of which he, Silvano, the youngest, was made mute by the shock of a bomb exploding...
Director of Photography
A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II. The deserted and desolate rooms make him travel back in memory to the time when the war was ending. Episodes of family life pass before his eyes: father, mother, grandmother and six children, of which he, Silvano, the youngest, was made mute by the shock of a bomb exploding...
Writer
A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II. The deserted and desolate rooms make him travel back in memory to the time when the war was ending. Episodes of family life pass before his eyes: father, mother, grandmother and six children, of which he, Silvano, the youngest, was made mute by the shock of a bomb exploding...
Novel
A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II. The deserted and desolate rooms make him travel back in memory to the time when the war was ending. Episodes of family life pass before his eyes: father, mother, grandmother and six children, of which he, Silvano, the youngest, was made mute by the shock of a bomb exploding...
Director
A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II. The deserted and desolate rooms make him travel back in memory to the time when the war was ending. Episodes of family life pass before his eyes: father, mother, grandmother and six children, of which he, Silvano, the youngest, was made mute by the shock of a bomb exploding...
Editor
The different faces of love provide the theme for this beautifully photographed film comprised of four short episodes. In the first story, two sisters head out for a New Year's Eve celebration and end up getting a ride with a car full of boys. The lads rape one of the girls, and strangely, the victim ends up falling in love with one of the rapists. In the second story, two young bucks who have been friends for ages spend a weekend at one of their wealthy father's homes. Eventually, they become much more than friends. The third tale deals with the emotions of an abandoned lover. While moping about, he watches TV and sees the picture of a Bengal tiger. Soon he becomes obsessed by the creature and spends many hours observing it at the zoo. His lover decides to return, but he spurns her. In the last story, a homeless fellow lives in an abandoned car. Among the locals he is known for his wisdom. One day, the doorkeeper of an adjacent building goes to see the derelict.
Director of Photography
The different faces of love provide the theme for this beautifully photographed film comprised of four short episodes. In the first story, two sisters head out for a New Year's Eve celebration and end up getting a ride with a car full of boys. The lads rape one of the girls, and strangely, the victim ends up falling in love with one of the rapists. In the second story, two young bucks who have been friends for ages spend a weekend at one of their wealthy father's homes. Eventually, they become much more than friends. The third tale deals with the emotions of an abandoned lover. While moping about, he watches TV and sees the picture of a Bengal tiger. Soon he becomes obsessed by the creature and spends many hours observing it at the zoo. His lover decides to return, but he spurns her. In the last story, a homeless fellow lives in an abandoned car. Among the locals he is known for his wisdom. One day, the doorkeeper of an adjacent building goes to see the derelict.
Producer
The different faces of love provide the theme for this beautifully photographed film comprised of four short episodes. In the first story, two sisters head out for a New Year's Eve celebration and end up getting a ride with a car full of boys. The lads rape one of the girls, and strangely, the victim ends up falling in love with one of the rapists. In the second story, two young bucks who have been friends for ages spend a weekend at one of their wealthy father's homes. Eventually, they become much more than friends. The third tale deals with the emotions of an abandoned lover. While moping about, he watches TV and sees the picture of a Bengal tiger. Soon he becomes obsessed by the creature and spends many hours observing it at the zoo. His lover decides to return, but he spurns her. In the last story, a homeless fellow lives in an abandoned car. Among the locals he is known for his wisdom. One day, the doorkeeper of an adjacent building goes to see the derelict.
Screenplay
The different faces of love provide the theme for this beautifully photographed film comprised of four short episodes. In the first story, two sisters head out for a New Year's Eve celebration and end up getting a ride with a car full of boys. The lads rape one of the girls, and strangely, the victim ends up falling in love with one of the rapists. In the second story, two young bucks who have been friends for ages spend a weekend at one of their wealthy father's homes. Eventually, they become much more than friends. The third tale deals with the emotions of an abandoned lover. While moping about, he watches TV and sees the picture of a Bengal tiger. Soon he becomes obsessed by the creature and spends many hours observing it at the zoo. His lover decides to return, but he spurns her. In the last story, a homeless fellow lives in an abandoned car. Among the locals he is known for his wisdom. One day, the doorkeeper of an adjacent building goes to see the derelict.
Director
The different faces of love provide the theme for this beautifully photographed film comprised of four short episodes. In the first story, two sisters head out for a New Year's Eve celebration and end up getting a ride with a car full of boys. The lads rape one of the girls, and strangely, the victim ends up falling in love with one of the rapists. In the second story, two young bucks who have been friends for ages spend a weekend at one of their wealthy father's homes. Eventually, they become much more than friends. The third tale deals with the emotions of an abandoned lover. While moping about, he watches TV and sees the picture of a Bengal tiger. Soon he becomes obsessed by the creature and spends many hours observing it at the zoo. His lover decides to return, but he spurns her. In the last story, a homeless fellow lives in an abandoned car. Among the locals he is known for his wisdom. One day, the doorkeeper of an adjacent building goes to see the derelict.
Editor
Relying on a bounty of archival footage and interviews with prominent musicians and intimates, Philo Bregstein's film traces the life and career of the conductor and composer Otto Klemperer, one of the foremost musicians of his time.
Director
A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.
Director
The director interviews five people with different backgrounds about love and sex.
Producer
A look at the passage of time through the changing seasons, human evolution and everyday life.
Director
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Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of film industry.
Director
Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of film industry.
Editor
Editor
A group of pilgrims in the Vatican is trapped in an enclosed elevator. Then chaos erupts, and repressed urges come to the surface.
Writer
A group of pilgrims in the Vatican is trapped in an enclosed elevator. Then chaos erupts, and repressed urges come to the surface.
Director
A group of pilgrims in the Vatican is trapped in an enclosed elevator. Then chaos erupts, and repressed urges come to the surface.
Editor
Un joven escritor se encuentra atrapado entre su madre (Laura Betti), una horrible actriz, y el conocimiento de que sólo tiene un talento mediocre como dramaturgo y un carácter casi nulo. Después de que el joven sufra la pérdida de su amante a manos de su padrastro, también novelista, su autoestima queda tan destrozada que se suicida. Adaptación italiana de La gaviota del dramaturgo ruso Anton Chéjov.
Editor
Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the steady supremacy of the Christian Democracy (DC), with satirical intent.
Himself (uncredited)
Via the New York Times: "This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could be released without harm to society, and to their advantage. Both patients -- chosen for their ability to talk before a camera -- and sponsors in the community at large are interviewed to promote the concept of the patients' re-integration into the outside world. Three men (Paolo, Angelo, and Marco -- a mentally handicapped youth) talk to the interviewers about their own perspectives, and while the success of the mentally handicapped working at one plant is illustrated, the implied excesses of hospitals run by the Catholic Church are also discussed. Filming was not allowed inside those institutions."
Director
Via the New York Times: "This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could be released without harm to society, and to their advantage. Both patients -- chosen for their ability to talk before a camera -- and sponsors in the community at large are interviewed to promote the concept of the patients' re-integration into the outside world. Three men (Paolo, Angelo, and Marco -- a mentally handicapped youth) talk to the interviewers about their own perspectives, and while the success of the mentally handicapped working at one plant is illustrated, the implied excesses of hospitals run by the Catholic Church are also discussed. Filming was not allowed inside those institutions."
Cinematography
An established writer goes to the Nobel Prize Banquet in Stockholm. He is a family man. In the background another woman. A suicide attempt. His work is rejected by the publisher.
Editor
With her marriage and her life disintegrating before her eyes, in this Italian political thriller, Sarah has made a detailed filmed record of it all. Not only that, she made a film of the man who flung bombs into a political demonstration and she is killed for her effort. The story unravels as Sarah's husband, who is suspected of being her murderer, views the film on a moviola. He is trying to figure out what happened and why his wife died. Because he has the film which would expose the murderer and the political forces behind him, his life is also in danger
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.
Director
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.
Editor
El cuerpo del joven Alvise está paralizado, o al menos así lo cree. Está enamorado de su bella tía Lea. Lo que comienza como una terapia y cuidado inocentes pronto se convierte en una extraña batalla erótica y psicológica entre ellos.
Writer
Una ceremonia. Una noche de bodas. Una habitación de hotel. Un inodoro que pierde agua. Un hombre, una mujer ... y otra mujer. Recuerdos que florecen, temores que surgen. Las primeras horas de un matrimonio, el comienzo del infierno. Carlo y Carla están de luna de miel. Ella está embarazada de tres meses, él, furioso por por un matrimonio impuesto por la conveniencia, recuerda el pasado y reflexiona sobre El jardín de las delicias de El Bosco. Película fuertemente censurada en Italia; de su duracción origial (95 min) sólo se conservan 72 minutos que son los que han sido editados comercialmente en DVD. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Una ceremonia. Una noche de bodas. Una habitación de hotel. Un inodoro que pierde agua. Un hombre, una mujer ... y otra mujer. Recuerdos que florecen, temores que surgen. Las primeras horas de un matrimonio, el comienzo del infierno. Carlo y Carla están de luna de miel. Ella está embarazada de tres meses, él, furioso por por un matrimonio impuesto por la conveniencia, recuerda el pasado y reflexiona sobre El jardín de las delicias de El Bosco. Película fuertemente censurada en Italia; de su duracción origial (95 min) sólo se conservan 72 minutos que son los que han sido editados comercialmente en DVD. (FILMAFFINITY)
Editor
En los montes cerca de Piacenza, en un chalet antes lujoso y actualmente en ruinas, vive una familia burguesa casi totalmente aislada. La madre tiene cuatro hijos, está ciega y no se ocupa de su educación ni de la administración de la casa. En cambio, Augusto, el hijo mayor y jefe de familia, parece estar siempre pensando en el momento en que se marchará de esa casa. Sus hermanos Alessandro, Leone y Giulia muestran trastornos mentales. Leone tiene epilepsia y es incapaz de razonar. Giulia, aparentemente normal, se ha quedado anclada en un estado totalmente infantil y ha establecido una relación morbosa con su hermano Alessandro. También éste sufre epilepsia, pero demuestra una fría lucidez mental, hasta el punto de urdir planes diabólicos para asesinar a toda la familia... (FILMAFFINITY)
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