Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
Gianfranco Mingozzi
Casts & Crew
Dario Argento
Federico Fellini
Sergio Leone
Sophia Loren
Marcello Mastroianni
Marco Ferreri
Vittorio De Sica
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Nanni Moretti
Monica Vitti
Anna Magnani
Giancarlo Giannini
Also Directed by Gianfranco Mingozzi
After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.
A behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his segment of The Three Faces, a vehicle for Soraya, the former empress of Persia. Featuring interviews with Monica Vitti, Tonino Guerra and more.
A film by Gianfranco Mingozzi.
The lives of three young people in their teens are linked through their experiences in this drama from director Gian Franco Mingozzi. A girl wins a pop singing contest and begins a successful career, at the same time taking on various lovers, discarding them at whim with no regard to their feelings. A curious teenage boy spies on the lonely bachelor who lives across the street and observes that he always has a handful of bills, so the boy decides to rob him. When the boy can't go through with the crime, he seeks out the bachelor to teach him something about life that the teen feels he is missing.
Documentary in which 94 year-old Francesca Bertini recalls her life and career while attending a screening of Assunta Spina.
C'è musica e musica (There is music and music), was a documentary written and hosted by Luciano Berio in 1972 for the RAI Italian National Television. The documentary was made by ten 40 minutes episodes, and tried to get the italian audience closer to the music world. This extraordinary document includes interviews with the most important composers of the XX Century like: John Cage, Bruno Maderna, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono, Pierre Schaeffer, Christof Penderecki, Iannis Xenakis, Gyorgy Ligeti, Henry Pousseur, Morton Subotnick, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Milton Babbitt, Michael Tippett, Cornelius Cardew, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Dallapiccola, Pietro Grossi,… and many more!
A filmmaker of committed films, together with his lover, plans to commit suicide within a few days.
Short film by Gianfranco Mingozzi.