Archive for the ‘Directors’ Category
Director Luigi Scattini has apparently died.
Ottavio Poggi may not be a name that you are familiar with. There’s certainly very little biographical information about him anywhere. But he was actually one of a band of little known – but very important – producers who fuelled the whole explosion in the Italian film industry in the 1950s and 60s.
More bad news, director Guido Zurli died a few days ago. Zurli was one of the more prolific directors of Italian b-movies from the mid sixties until the beginning of the 80s, and was in fact pretty good at what he did. Some of his films are rubbish, but some of them show a degree [...]
According to recent reports, director Gianfranco Mingozzi died in Rome over the weekend. The director, born in 1932 in Bologna, had been seriously ill since summer. He began his career making documentaries, winning awards for Con il cuore fermo Sicilià (65), before making a number of films from the late sixties onwards. He’s possibly best [...]
I watched a rather entertaining 1959 comedy called Policarpo last night, which was directed by Mario Soldati. Now Soldati’s name was familiar to me – he regularly crops up in interviews with people who were active in Cinecitta in the 50s – but I’d never actually seen any of his films before this. Anyway, a [...]