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Informationen zum Autor Alberto Anile is an Italian film critic and journalist. He is author of several books and essays about director Roberto Rossellini and comedy actor Totò. His last book (with Maria Gabriella Giannice) concerns Luchino Visconti's The Leopard .Marcus Perryman is editor and translator (with Peter Robinson) of The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni . Klappentext Alberto Anile is an Italian film critic and journalist. He is author of several books and essays about director Roberto Rossellini and comedy actor Tot¿. His last book (with Maria Gabriella Giannice) concerns Luchino Visconti¿s The Leopard.Marcus Perryman is editor and translator (with Peter Robinson) of The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni. "This is a path-breaking study that will be useful both to Welles scholars and to students of Italian cinema." - James O. Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles "Anile's carefully documented and illustrated chronicle promises to overturn - or at the very least, challenge - certain received ideas about Welles's European reputation by revealing that it was in some ways as checkered and as ambivalent as his reputation in the US." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, author of Discovering Orson Welles Zusammenfassung Depicts the artist's life and work in Italy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's Preface Introduction 1. Arrival Orson Welles: "Hollywood . . . teaches nothing anymore" 2. Pizza with Togliatti 3. Black Magic 4. Dolce Vita Franca Faldini: "It was just an adolescent flirtation" 5. Citizen Kane 6. Life after Rita 7. The Fall of Macbeth Alfredo Todisco: A Necktie with Dedication 8. Othello Begins Shooting 9. Scalera Gets Cold Feet 10. The Last Desdemona Alvaro Mancori: "Every now and then he would shout, 'Traitors!'" 11. Blessed and Damned 12. Waiting for Othello Tullio Kezich: "A maverick filmmaker" 13. Reviewing Othello: The World Premiere 14. Byzantine Timekeeping 15. Going, Going, Gone Gian Luigi Rondi: "I have changed my mind only about Citizen Kane" 16. Welles and Rossellini Appendix 1: The Italian Version of Othello Appendix 2: The Opinion of the Catholic Center for Cinematography Notes Index ...
