Franco Ferrini

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Franco Ferrini
Born (1944-01-05) 5 January 1944 (age 81)[ citation needed ]
La Spezia, Liguria, Italy [ citation needed ]
OccupationScreenwriter
Known forCollaborations with Dario Argento

Franco Ferrini (born 5 January 1944[ citation needed ]) is an Italian screenwriter.

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Ferrini was initially a film critic. Ferrini had worked on projects such as Elio Petri's unmade spy film Chi illumine la grande notte and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984). [1] While Ferrini is credited as a screenwriter one of the five credited screenwriters on the film, intensive revisions of the drafts for the film were done during the later half of the 1970s. Leone has cited Stuart Kaminsky and Leonardo Benvenuti as the principal contributors who "miraculously concluded" the screenplay. [2]

Ferrini has made several films collaborating with Dario Argento, with the first being Phenomena (1985). [1] He was one of the interviewees represented in the book Spaghetti Nightmares . [3]

Select filmography

TitleYearCredited asNotesRef(s)
ScreenwriterScreen story writerOther
Crimebusters 1976Yes [4]
Red Rings of Fear 1978Yes [5]
Once Upon a Time in America 1984Yes [6]
Phenomena 1985YesYes [7] [8]
Demons 1985Yes [9] [10]
Nothing Underneath 1985Yes [9] [11] [12]
Demons 2 1986YesYes [13]
Sweets from a Stranger 1987YesYesYesDirector [14] [15] [16]
Opera 1987Yes [17] [18]
The Church 1989YesYes [19] [20]
Etoile 1989Yes [21]
Two Evil Eyes 1990Yes [22] [23]
The Stendhal Syndrome 1996Yes [24] [25]
Dark Glasses 2022Yes [26] [27] [28]

References

  1. 1 2 Curti 2022, p. 354.
  2. ↑ Martin 1998, p. 25.
  3. ↑ Luca M. Palmerini; Gaetano Mistretta (1996). Margot Winick (ed.). Spaghetti nightmares: Italian fantasy-horrors as seen through the eyes of their protagonists (1st American ed.). Key West, Fla.: Fantasma Books. pp. 7, 49–54. ISBN   978-0-9634982-7-4 . Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  4. ↑ Curti 2013, p. 170.
  5. ↑ "Orgie des Todes" (in German). Filmportal.de . Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "Once Upon a Time in America". American Film Institute . Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  7. ↑ "Cast and Crew". Dario Argento's Phenomena (book). Arrow Video. 2017. p. 3. FCD1507.
  8. ↑ "About the Versions". Dario Argento's Phenomena (book). Arrow Video. 2017. p. 55. FCD1507.
  9. 1 2 Curti 2019, p. 121.
  10. ↑ Curti 2019, p. 122.
  11. ↑ "Sotto il vestito niente (1985)" (in Italian). Archivio Del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  12. ↑ Curti 2022, p. 362.
  13. ↑ Curti 2019, p. 139.
  14. ↑ Howarth 2015b, p. 140.
  15. ↑ Curti 2022, p. 367.
  16. ↑ Curti 2022, p. 9.
  17. ↑ "Opera (1987)" (in Italian). Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  18. ↑ "Opera". BFI Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  19. ↑ Curti 2019, p. 171.
  20. ↑ Curti 2019, p. 172.
  21. ↑ Curti 2019, p. 175.
  22. ↑ Cotter 2012, p. 102.
  23. ↑ Gallant 2000, p. 280.
  24. ↑ Fischer 2011, p. 139.
  25. ↑ Gallant 2000, p. 283.
  26. ↑ Manisco, Elisa (4 February 2022). "Dario Argento: tutti i miei brividi". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  27. ↑ Miska, Brad (19 January 2022). "'Dark Glasses': Dario Argento's Return to Giallo to World Premiere in Berlin!". Bloody Disgusting . Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  28. ↑ "Berlin Review: Dario Argento's 'Dark Glasses'". Deadline. 11 February 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2023.

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