{"id":175,"date":"2008-05-26T10:11:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T10:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattblake.wordpress.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-08-26T08:54:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T08:54:33","slug":"rip-tano-cimarosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/rip-tano-cimarosa\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Tano Cimarosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-177\" style=\"border:1px solid black;float:right;\" src=\"http:\/\/europeanfilmreview.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tano_cimarosa.jpg\" alt=\"Tano Cimarosa\" width=\"250\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Character actor and director Tano Cimarosa died on the 24th of May, marking (hopefully) the end of a pretty desperate month in terms of deaths of figures from the Italian film industry.<\/p>\n<p>Cimarosa was a Messinese, and made his first appearence in small scale comedies of the early sixties, such as Marcello Andrei&#8217;s <strong>La smania addosso <\/strong>(63) and Lucio Fulci&#8217;s <strong>I due para <\/strong>(65, with Franco and Ciccio).  His real breakthrough, though, came with Damiano Damiani&#8217;s <strong>Mafia<\/strong> (67), which really capitalised on his dark, small appearence, making him a perfect choice for Neapolitan or Sicilian parts.  Over the next ten years of so he appeared in numerous productions,   and was a particular favourite of Damiano, who regularly cast him in his series of classy crime films (<strong>The Most Beautiful Wife <\/strong>(70), <strong>Un uomo in ginocchio <\/strong>(78), <strong>The Sicilian Connection <\/strong>(87)).  After the collapse of the native film industry, jobs became more scarce, although he was still able to find employment as late as 2002&#8217;s <strong>Due Amici <\/strong>and on television with appearences in the likes of <strong>Don Matteo <\/strong>(an episode called <strong>Arabesque <\/strong>in 2006).<\/p>\n<p>Cimarosa also directed three films: the giallo  <strong>La vizio ha la calze nere <\/strong>(75), which pushed the implicit sex and violence of the genre to the fore, a crime film <strong>Death Hunt <\/strong>(77) and the obscure <strong>Uomini di parola <\/strong>(81).  None of these were particularly memorable, although they&#8217;re not particularly bad either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Character actor and director Tano Cimarosa died on the 24th of May, marking (hopefully) the end of a pretty desperate month in terms of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[89,217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}