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Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era .
Alessandro Blasetti. Alessandro Blasetti ( Roma, 3 luglio 1900 – Roma, 1º febbraio 1987) è stato un regista, sceneggiatore, montatore e critico cinematografico italiano, fra i più celebri e significativi del suo tempo, tanto da poter essere definito «padre fondatore del moderno cinema italiano». [1]
Nov 2, 2010 · Alessandro Blasetti (1900–1987), a law school graduate and failed movie extra, started out as a film critic and participant in what might be viewed as a forerunner of the French Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) of the 1950s and 1960s: the Augustus cooperative. Blasetti and his circle were rebelling against an Italian cinema dominated by costume epics and melodramas, the kinds of films that had made ...
Blasetti’s pioneering film has been credited with introducing a number of cinematic techniques which would become calling cards of Italy’s Neo-Realist directors, such as De Sica, Visconti and Rossellini, during the 1940’s and 1950’s. 1860 is the tale of a Sicilian shepherd, Carmeniddu, who is recruited to travel to Genoa and inform ...
Jan 29, 2020 · See Archivio Alessandro Blasetti, Cineteca di Bologna (henceforth AAB-CdB), CRS 17, fasc. 0486, sottofasc. 13, Letter to Blasetti from Dino De Laurentiis, August 21, 1959. 2 On the production context of the period, see M. Nicoli, The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry (London: Routledge, 2017), parts 2 and 3.
- Stephen Gundle, Michela Zegna
- 2020
Alessandro Blasetti, the film director sometimes referred to as ‘the father of Italian cinema’ for the part he played in reviving the film industry in Italy in the late 1920s and 30s, was born on this day in 1900 in Rome. In his directing style, Blasetti was seen as ahead of his time, even in his early days.
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Alessandro Blasetti was born on 3 July 1900 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for First Communion (1950), La corona di ferro (1941) and Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966). He was married to Maria Laura Quagliotti.
