Turbo Time | |
---|---|
![]() Italian theatrical release poster by Enzo Sciotti | |
Turbo Time | |
Directed by | James Davis |
Written by | Mario Morra |
Screenplay by | Federico Urban Lello Garinei |
Produced by | Alessandro Fracassi |
Cinematography | Antonio Climati |
Edited by | Mario Morra |
Music by | Daniele Patucchi |
Production company | Racing Pictures |
Distributed by | Cinemedia |
Release date |
|
Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Turbo Time is a 1983 Italian documentary film directed by Antonio Climati as James Davis and written by Mario Morra and . [1]
Documentary about the world of car and motorcycle racing, accompanied by interviews with several champions of these sports.
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet Russian film director, screenwriter, and film theorist. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory.
Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini was an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), and Germany, Year Zero (1948).
Antonio Margheriti, also known under the pseudonyms Anthony M. Dawson and Antony Daisies, was an Italian filmmaker. Margheriti worked in many different genres in the Italian film industry, and was known for his sometimes derivative but often stylish and entertaining science fiction, sword and sandal, horror/giallo, Eurospy, Spaghetti Western, Vietnam War and action movies that were released to a wide international audience. He died in 2002.
Alain Tanner was a Swiss film director.
Ermanno Olmi was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Ruggero Deodato is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and sometime actor.
Marco Ferreri was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, who began his career in the 1950s directing three films in Spain, followed by 24 Italian films before his death in 1997. He is considered one of the greatest European cinematic provocateurs of his time and had a constant presence in prestigious festival circuit - including eight films in competition in Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Bear win in 1991 Berlin Film Festival. Three of his films are among 100 films selected for preservation for significant contribution to Italian cinema.
Ettore Scola was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time! is a 1982 documentary film about the folk group The Weavers and the events leading up to their 1980 reunion concert at Carnegie Hall.
Nelo Risi was an Italian poet, film director, translator and screenwriter, brother of cinematographer Fernando Risi and director Dino Risi.
Carlo Lizzani was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic.
The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's David, a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano. There are 26 award categories as of 2021.
The cinema of Saudi Arabia is a fairly small industry that only produces a few feature films and documentaries every year.
Franco Cristaldi was an Italian film producer, credited with producing feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s.
The historiography of Haitian cinema is very limited. It consists only one double issue of the journal of the French Institute of Haiti Conjonction, released in 1983, devoted to film; a book by Arnold Antonin, published during the same year, entitled Matériel pour une préhistoire du cinéma haïtien ; and an article by the same author in the 1981 book Cinéma de l’Amérique latine by Guy Hennebel and Alfonso Gumucio Dagrón.
The Annecy Italian Film Festival, founded in 1983 and since then, each year shows the best of contemporary Italian cinema. The private festival is held annually at the Centre Culturel de Bonlieu, in the town of Annecy, in the middle of France.
The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Sponsored Documentary was an award presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI). It was presented at the Australian Film Institute Awards, which are now the AACTA Awards after the establishment of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), by the AFI. The award was handed out from 1983-1986.
Mario Morra is an Italian film editor, director and screenwriter.
Fabio Carpi was an Italian director, screenwriter, and author.
The cinema of Libya has had an uneven history. Though there was little local film production in Italian Libya and the Kingdom of Libya, cinema-going became a popular entertainment activity. From 1973 onwards, Muammar Gaddafi tried to exercise control over cinema. Though he encouraged some local filmmaking, his obstruction of foreign film consumption resulted in the closing of cinemas. In the post-2011 instability in Libya, hopes for a resurgence of Libyan cinema combine with a lack of infrastructure.