{"id":2125,"date":"2010-07-15T13:15:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T13:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2010-07-15T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T13:19:13","slug":"rip-luigi-scattini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/rip-luigi-scattini\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Luigi Scattini"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Luigi Scattini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Director Luigi Scattini has apparently died.<\/p>\n

Scattini, a law graduate, was born on May 17, 1927, in Turin.\u00a0 He began his career as a journalist, working for papers and popular magazines like Gente and Oggi, before moving into cinema as a documentary film maker, for which he soon began building a considerable reputation.\u00a0 His 1962 film, La via del carbone<\/strong>, was nominated for best documentary at the Oscars and La Vergine di Caacup\u00e9 e Puerto Sastre<\/strong> was shown at Venice in 1963.<\/p>\n

He then took the logical step of moving into the Mondo field with 1963s Sexy Magico<\/strong>, and returned to the territory with Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso<\/strong> (1968),\u00a0 Angeli bianchi, Angeli neri<\/strong> (1969) and Questo sporco mondo meraviglioso<\/strong> (1970).<\/p>\n

In between these, he also directed several feature films, starting with the Buster Keaton \/ Franco & Ciccio vehicle Due marines e un generale<\/strong> (66).\u00a0 Although he didn’t constrain himself to any particular genre, his films could be said to be linked by a sense of exoticism, whether this was the globetrotting espionage of Duello nel mondo<\/strong> (aka Ring Around the World, 66<\/em>) or the Caribbean erotica of Il corpo<\/strong> (The Body, 74<\/em>) and La notte dell’alta marea<\/strong> (77).\u00a0 Even his sleazy 1977 film Blue Nude<\/strong>, which follows the adventures of an Italian gigolo in New York, finds a certain exotica in its sleazy settings.<\/p>\n

Since the eighties, once his directorial career was effectively over, he forged a new and succesful career acting as a dubbing director for foreign films being shown in Italy.<\/p>\n

I have to confess, I haven’t actually seen any of Scattini’s films, even his Eurospy ones, but the general view seems to be that he was pretty good at what he did.\u00a0 I may dig out something of his later as a tribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Luigi Scattini has apparently died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125"}],"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=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}