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| Born | Gian Battista Canova 16 February 1954 (age 70) Castione della Presolana, Bergamo, Italy |
| Occupation | Film critic |
Gian Battista "Gianni" Canova (born 16 February 1954) is an Italian film critic, essayist, television writer and academic.
Born in Castione della Presolana, Canova graduated in letters from the University of Milan. [1] [2] In 1993 he founded the film journal Duel (later renamed Duellanti), [3] also serving as editor until 2011. [4] In 2012, he founded the magazine 8 ½. [5] As a film critic, he also collaborated with important publications such as La Repubblica , Rolling Stone , Bianco e Nero , il Manifesto , Vogue , Sette , La Voce . [1] [2] He also collaborates with Sky Cinema, for which he created the program Il Cinemaniaco. [2] [6]
Canova is professor of film history and filmology at the IULM University of Milan, and from 2018 he also serves as rector. [7] In 2024, he was named president of the Scientific Committee of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Foundation. [8]
Gian Luigi "Gianni" Morandi is an Italian pop singer, actor and entertainer. It is estimated that Morandi has sold about 50 million recordings.
The Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, also referred to as the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema, is an Italian national film school headquartered in Rome, with satellite educational hubs in five other Italian regions.
Vittorio Umberto Antonio Maria Sgarbi is an Italian art critic, art historian, writer, politician, cultural commentator, and television personality. He is president of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto. Appointed curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, Sgarbi is also a columnist for il Giornale and works as an art critic for Panorama and IO Donna. A popular ecletic and mediatic phenomenon, Sgarbi is well known for his glib, verbal aggressiveness, and insults, which often led to libels.
Gianni Toti was an Italian poet, writer, journalist, and cineaste. In the early 80s he created "Poetronica".
Gianni Cavina was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films from 1968 to 2022. Born in Bologna, Cavina trained as a stage actor at the Teatro Stabile di Bologna, under the direction of Franco Parenti. He made his film debut in the 1968 horror Balsamus, l'uomo di Satana, directed by Pupi Avati, with whom he had a long collaboration, starring in many of his films.
Luigi Freddi was an Italian journalist and politician, principally notable for being the first vice seсretary of the Fasci italiani all'estero, and later one of those most responsible for Italian political cinema in the second half of the 1930s and the start of the 1940s.
Dario Edoardo Viganò is an Italian Catholic priest, writer and university teacher. He was named Director of Vatican Television Center in 2013. He served as the first Prefect of the newly established Secretariat for Communications from 27 June 2015 to 21 March 2018, resigning "a week after his mishandling of a letter from retired Pope Benedict XVI provoked a global outcry".
Fabio Vittorini is an Italian literary critic, currently Professor of Comparative Literature at IULM University of Milan (Italy) He is known for his studies on opera and on metamodern narratives. He is the author of many books and articles.
Marisa Anna Solinas, best known as Marisa Solinas, was an Italian actress and singer.
Gianni Berengo Gardin is an Italian photographer who has concentrated on reportage and editorial work, but whose career as a photographer has encompassed book illustration and advertising.
Piero Pierotti was an Italian director and screenwriter.
Gianni Solaro was an Italian film and television actor.
Elena Radonicich is an Italian actress.
Gianni Bisiach was an Italian journalist, television and radio writer, presenter, essayist, documentarist, and screenwriter.
Fortunato Zampaglione is an Italian singer-songwriter, producer of music records, lyricist and composer.
Antonio Scurati is an Italian writer and academic. A professor of comparative literature and creative writing at the IULM University of Milan, mass media scholar, and editorialist for the Corriere della Sera, Scurati has won the main Italian literary prizes. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize for his novel M: Son of the Century (2018), which is part of a planned tetralogy dedicated to Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism. It was at the top of the charts for two consecutive years, was translated into over forty languages, and is set for a television series produced by Sky Original in 2024.
Margherita Carducci , known professionally as Ditonellapiaga, is an Italian singer-songwriter.
Giovanni "Gianni" Mammolotti is an Italian cinematographer. He teaches Cinematography at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and is a member of A.I.C. Italian Association of Authors of Cinematographic Photography. Gianni Mammolotti has been working in film and television for over 30 years.
Alessio Maria Lapice is an Italian actor. He is best known for playing Romulus in the 2019 film The First King: Birth of an Empire.
The 81st annual Venice International Film Festival will be held from 28 August to 7 September 2024, at Venice Lido in Italy. Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will open the festival on 28 August 2024, while Pupi Avati's The American Garden will close the festival on 7 September 2024.
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