Lina Wertmüller

...true happiness. It helped Wertmuller that her two stars were blindingly charismatic, and their animal attraction and their sheer physical intensity overwhelmed any intellectual deconstruction of the movie's politics. A Giannini still...

In this article: Madonna, Giancarlo Giannini, Swept Away, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Guy Ritchie, Mariangela Melato, Come on-a My House, J.M. Barrie, and Jeanne Tripplehorn

...lampshades made out of the skin of inmates. Giancarlo Giannini stars in three other films Wertmuller made during this period, "Love and Anarchy", "The Seduction of Mimi" and "Swept Away ". As in the latter film, Giannini here plays a...

In this article: Seven Beauties, Giancarlo Giannini, Shirley Stoler, Academy Awards, Italian Army, Karl Otto Koch, Nezami, Ilse Koch, and Fernando Rey

...the success of which depended a great deal on her, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 1976, and garnered Wertmuller nominations as Best Director (a first for a woman) and Best Original Screenplay , and...

In this article: Shirley Stoler, Giancarlo Giannini, The Honeymoon Killers, Charlie's Angels, Academy Award, Heart failure, Klute, and Pee-wee's Playhouse

A Night Full of Rain A Night Full of Rain () is an Italian American film directed by Lina Wertmuller and starred by Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini. Lina Wertmuller was nominated as best director at the Berlin International Film...

In this article: A Night Full of Rain, Berlin International Film Festival, Giancarlo Giannini, Candice Bergen, Rome, and San Francisco

Love and Anarchy Love and Anarchy () is a 1973 film directed by Lina Wertmuller and starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. The story, set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, centers on Giannini's character, an...

In this article: Love and Anarchy, Giancarlo Giannini, Benito Mussolini, Fascism, World War II, Cannes Film Festival, and Mariangela Melato

The Seduction of Mimi Mimi metallurgico ferito nell'onore (1972) is an Italian language film directed by Lina Wertmuller, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. It was released in the United States as The Seduction of Mimi,...

In this article: The Seduction of Mimi, Cannes Film Festival, Mariangela Melato, Giancarlo Giannini, Richard Pryor, and United States

...Andrea (We'll Call Him Andrew, 1972). Melato received much praise for her role as Giancarlo Giannini's Milanese mistress in The Seduction of Mimi (1972), directed by Lina Wertmuller. This was to be the start of a very successful...

In this article: Mariangela Melato, Elio Petri, Giancarlo Giannini, The Miracle Worker, Luigi Comencini, Pupi Avati, Luchino Visconti, and Claude Chabrol

...same impact as her mid-1970s collaborations with Giannini. Wertmuller was married to Enrico Job (died on March 4th, 2008), an art designer who worked on several of her pictures. Laraine Newman impersonated Wertmuller twice on Saturday...

In this article: Academy Award, Giancarlo Giannini, Swept Away, Federico Fellini, Seven Beauties, Trademark, 8½, Jane Campion, and Sofia Coppola