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HISTORY OF THE FILM IN ITALY
The Lumiere brothers were born in France. They began to create moving pictures. the Lumieres held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in 1985. The brothers stated that the cinema is an intention without any future and declined to sell their camera to other filmmakers. -
THE FIRST LUMIERE'S FILM
The Lumieres gave their first paid public screening on December 28, 1985, at Salon Indien du Grand Cafè. The name of the first Lumieres Brothers's Film is "La Sortie de L'Usine Lumiere à Lyon". Film -
THE FIRST FILM IN ITALY
The first film in Italy is " La presa di Roma" in 1905 directed by Filoteo Alberini. It is long 5 minutes.This is the complete film:
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THE ITALIAN CINEMA'S DEVELOPMENT
The italian cinema arrived later than other European Countries cinema. But than "La presa di Roma" arrival it started a development of italian cinema. -
CINECITTA'
With the approval of Benito Mussolini, this directorate called for the establishment of a town southeast of Rome devoted exclusively to cinema, dubbed the "Cinecittà" ("Cinema City"). Completed in 1937, the Cinecittà provided everything necessary for filmmaking: theaters, technical services, and even a cinematography school, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, for younger apprentices. -
THE SPAGHETTI WESTERN
On the heels of the Peplum craze, a related genre, the Spaghetti Western arose and was popular both in Italy and elsewhere. These films differed from traditional westerns by being filmed in Europe on limited budgets, but featured vivid cinematography. The most popular Spaghetti Westerns were those of Sergio Leone, whose Dollars Trilogy , featuring Clint Eastwood and scores by Ennio Morricone, came to define the genre along with Once Upon a Time in the West. -
THE 1980 CRISIS AND FANTOZZI
Between the late 1970s and mid 1980s, Italian cinema was in crisis; "art films" became increasingly isolated, separating from the mainstream Italian cinema. Also considered part of the trash genre are films which feature Fantozzi, a comic personage invented by Paolo Villaggio. Although Villaggio's movies tend to bridge trash comedy with a more elevated social satireOf the many films telling of Fantozzi's misadventures, the most notable were Fantozzi and Il secondo tragico Fantozzi. -
FROM 1990 TO PRESENT
A new generation of directors has helped return Italian cinema to a healthy level since the end of the 1980s. Probably the most noted film of the period is Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, for which Giuseppe Tornatore won a 1989 Oscar (awarded in 1990) for Best Foreign Language Film. This award was followed when Gabriele Salvatores's Mediterraneo won the same prize for 1991. Another exploit was in 1998 when Roberto Benigni won three oscars for his movie Life Is Beautiful . -
FROM 1990 TO PRESENT
In 2001 Nanni Moretti's film The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio) received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Other noteworthy recent Italian films include: Jona che visse nella balena directed by Roberto Faenza, The Profession of Arms (Il mestiere delle armi) by Olmi, L'ora di religione by Marco Bellocchio, Il ladro di bambini, Lamerica, The Keys to the House (Le chiavi di casa) by Gianni Amelio, I'm Not Scared (Io non ho paura) by Gabriele Salvatores and others film... -
FROM 1990 TO PRESENT
In 2008 Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, a biographical film based on the life of Giulio Andreotti, won the Jury prize and Gomorra, a crime drama film, directed by Matteo Garrone won the Gran Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
Paolo Sorrentino's La Grande Bellezza won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The two highest-grossing Italian films have both been directed by Gennaro Nunziante and starred Checco Zalone: Sole a catinelle (2013) -
FROM 1990 TO PRESENT
They Call Me Jeeg, by Gabriele Mainetti and starring Claudio Santamaria, won many awards, such as eight David di Donatello, two Nastro d'Argento, and a Globo d'oro.
Gianfranco Rosi's documentary film Fire at Sea (2016) won the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. They Call Me Jeeg and Fire at Sea were also selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but they were not nominated. -
FROM 1990 TO PRESENT
Other successful 2010s Italian films include: The First Beautiful Thing (La prima cosa bella), Human Capital (Il capitale umano) and Like Crazy (La pazza gioia) by Paolo Virzì, We Have a Pope (Habemus Papam) and Mia Madre by Nanni Moretti, Don't Be Bad (Non essere cattivo) by Claudio Caligari, Romanzo Criminale by Michele Placido, Suburra by Stefano Sollima, Perfect Strangers (Perfetti sconosciuti) by Paolo Genovese and others films...
