Adriano Aprà
Adriano Aprà | |
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Born | 18 November 1940 |
Died | 15 April 2024 Rome, Italy | (aged 83)
Occupation | Film critic |
Adriano Aprà (18 November 1940 – 15 April 2024) was an Italian film critic, film historian, screenwriter, director, festival curator, academic and occasional actor.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Rome, Aprà graduated in law at Sapienza University, and made his debut as a film critic in 1960, collaborating with Edoardo Bruno's journal Filmcritica.[1][2] In 1966, he founded the magazine Cinema & film which he directed until 1970.[1][2] He served as director of the Salso Film & TV Festival between 1977 and 1989 and of the Pesaro International Film Festival between 1990 and 1998, and was president of the Cineteca Nazionale between 1998 and 2002.[1][3] He also collaborated with the Venice Film Festival, curating the 1981 retrospective dedicated to Howard Hawks.[2]
In 1970, Aprà founded the Filmstudio film society and directed his first film, Olimpia agli amici, which entered the Locarno Film Festival.[1][2] He wrote the screenplay of Fiorella Infascelli's The Mask,[2] and was actor in films directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Ferreri, Mario Schifano, Francesca Archibugi, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.[4] Between 2002 and 2008 he was professor of history and critic of cinema at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.[3]
Aprà died on 15 April 2024, at the age of 83.[4]
Writings
[edit]- New American cinema. Il cinema indipendente americano degli anni Sessanta. Ubulibri, 1986. ISBN 9788877480989.
- Rosselliniana: bibliografia internazionale: dossier Paisà. University of Michigan, 1987.
- Poetiche delle nouvelles vagues: Without special title. Marsilio, 1989.
- Viaggio in Italia. Gli anni 60 al cinema. Carte segrete, 1991. ISBN 9788885203082.
- Il Cinema sudcoreano. Marsilio, 1992. ISBN 9788831756983.
- Moravia al / nel cinema. Associazione Fondo Alberto Moravia, 1993.
- Per non morire hollywoodiani. Notizie dal cinema di fine millennio. Reset, 1999. ISBN 9788887591002.
- Ermanno Olmi. Il cinema, i film, la televisione, la scuola. Marsilio, 2003. ISBN 9788831782890.
- Marco Bellocchio. Il cinema e i film. Marsilio, 2005. ISBN 9788831787000.
- Stelle e strisce. Viaggi nel cinema USA dal muto agli anni '60. Falsopiano, 2005. ISBN 9788887011777.
- In viaggio con Rossellini. Falsopiano, 2006. ISBN 9788887011760.
- Luigi Comencini. Il cinema e i film. Marsilio, 2007. ISBN 9788831792646.
- Alberto Lattuada. Il cinema e i film. Marsilio, 2009. ISBN 9788831797771.
- Bernardo Bertolucci. Il cinema e i film. Marsilio, 2011. ISBN 9788831709651.
- Breve ma veridica storia del documentario. Dal cinema del reale alla nonfiction. Edizioni Falsopiano, 2017. ISBN 9788893041041.
- Fuorinorma. La via neosperimentale del cinema italiano. Marsilio, 2019. ISBN 9781909088337.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Dottorini, Daniele (2003). "Aprà, Adriano". Enciclopedia del Cinema. Treccani. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
- ^ a b c d e Piccino, Cristina (15 April 2024). "Adriano Aprà, la passione per il cinema come una scommessa oltre il tempo". Il manifesto (in Italian). Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ a b Mereghetti, Paolo (15 April 2024). "Morto Adriano Aprà: una vita dedicata ad amare e a far amare il cinema". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ a b Sollazzo, Boris (15 April 2024). "Adriano Aprà: morto il critico, saggista, regista, direttore di festival". The Hollywood Reporter Roma (in Italian). Retrieved 19 April 2024.
External links
[edit]- Adriano Aprà at IMDb
- 1940 births
- 2024 deaths
- People from Rome
- Italian film critics
- Italian essayists
- Italian film historians
- Italian film directors
- Italian film actors
- Italian screenwriters
- Italian male essayists
- 20th-century Italian writers
- 20th-century Italian male writers
- 20th-century Italian essayists
- Sapienza University of Rome alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Rome Tor Vergata