Commedia all'italiana

DINO RISI (1916-2008), Italian film director born in Milan. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of Commedia all'italiana. Dino Risi studied medicine and later became a psychiatrist; he started his career in cinema as an assistant director to cinema figures such as Mario Soldati and Alberto Lattuada. Later he began directing his own films and was credited with giving early opportunities to future acting stars such as Sophia Loren and Vittorio Gassman. His biggest hits were Poveri ma belli (Poor, But Handsome), followed by Una vita difficile (A Difficult Life); Il sorpasso (The Easy Life); Opiate '67 or, in a cut version, I mostri (15 From Rome); and Profumo di Donna (Scent Of A Woman), starring Vittorio Gassman, which was remade by Martin Brest starring Al Pacino in 1992. In 2002, he was awarded the Golden Lion for Ligetime Achievements at the Venice Film Festival. His son Marco is also a film director.

Suggested FILMS directed by DINO RISI:

Poveri ma belli (1956) La nonna Sabella (1957) Venezia, la luna e tu (1959) Il vedovo (1959) Poveri milionari (1959) Il mattatore (1959) Un amore a Roma (1960) A porte chiuse (1961) A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile, 1961) The Easy Life (Il sorpasso, 1962) March on Rome (La marcia su Roma, 1962) Il giovedì (1963) I mostri (1963) Le bambole (episode "La telefonata", 1965) Il Gaucho (1965) Operazione San Gennaro (1966) Il Tigre (1967) Straziami, ma di baci saziami (1968) Vedo nudo (1969) In nome del popolo italiano (1971) La moglie del prete (1971) Mordi e fuggi (1973) Sessomatto (1973) Profumo di donna (1974) The Career of a Chambermaid (1976) Anima persa (1977) La stanza del vescovo (1978) I nuovi mostri (episodes "Con i saluti degli amici", "Tantum ergo", "Pornodiva", "Mammina mammona" and "Senza parole", 1978) Primo amore (1978) Caro papà (1979) Sono fotogenico (1980) Fantasma d'amore (1981) Sesso e volentieri (1982) Scemo di guerra (1985) Teresa (1987) Il commissario Lo Gatto (1987) Il vizio di vivere (1989)

• GOLDEN LION for Best Film to "The Magdalene Sisters" by Peter Mullan (Ireland)
• SILVER LION for Best Director to
• SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to La casa dei matti by Andrey Konchalovskiy
• COPPA VOLPI for Best Actor to <Stefano Accorsi in "Un Viaggio Chiamato Amore" by Michele Placido
• COPPA VOLPI for Best Actress to Julianne Moore in "Far From Heaven" by Todd Haynes (USA)
• Golden Osella for Cinematography: Lontano dal paradiso by Edward Lachman
• Marcello Mastroianni Award: Oasis by So-ri Moon
• Luigi De Laurentiis Award: Due amici by Spiro Scimone and Francesco Sframeli Roger Dodger by Dylan Kidd
• Silver Lion for Best Short Film: Clown by Irina Efteeva

2002 Venice Film Festival Films in Competition

• Au plus près du paradis by Tonie Marshall
• Bear's Kiss by Sergei Bodrov
• Dirty Pretty Things by Stephen Frears
• Dolls by Takeshi Kitano
• Dom durakov by Andrei Konchalovsky
• Far from Heaven by Todd Haynes
• La forza del passato by Piergiorgio Gay
• Frida by Julie Taymor
• Führer Ex by Winfried Bonengel
• L'Homme du train by Patrice Leconte
• Julie Walking Home by Agnieszka Holland
• The Magdalene Sisters by Peter Mullan
• Mei li shi guang by Tso-chi Chang
• Nackt by Doris Dörrie
• Nha fala by Flora Gomes
• Oasis by Lee Chang-dong
• Road to Perdition by Sam Mendes
• The Tracker by Rolf de Heer
• Un monde presque paisible by Michel Deville
• Velocità massima by Daniele Vicari
• Un viaggio chiamato amore by Michele Placido