Adriano Aprà

Marco Melani - The Man With The Golden Eye (2021)

"The Man With The Golden Eye" tells the extraordinary figure of Marco Melani through a live projection of materials collected in over ten years of research. Found footage, unpublished interviews with cinema and television personalities, fragments of films, ...

Glauber, Claro (2020)

A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his film Claro (1975) and his relation with European auteurs in their filmic and political views. ...

Sassi nello Stagno (2016)

L'età d'oro (2016)

Sid grew up with his mother Arabella in a cheerful and somewhat naïve Apulian community, which was filled with affection and a great passion for cinema. After years away he returns to the land of his childhood where his mother had created a cinematic aren ...

Filmstudio, mon amour (2015)

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema (2014)

The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, ...

In the Shade of the Conformist (2011)

In this visual essay, renowned film critic and historian Adriano Apra takes a closer look at Bernardo Bertolucci's work with Pier Paolo Pasolini on La Commare Secca and discusses its poetic qualities and visual style; Before the Revolution, which was inspi ...

La balena di Rossellini (2010)

La Balena di Rossellini origins from one of the most beautiful Roberto Rossellini's dreams, an exemplary project for his autorial path. The film conceived, but never realized, by Rossellini took shape in his notes after a trip to Chile conducted in May of ...

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad (2009)

This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also experimented new path. ...

A Matter of Heart (2009)

Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who has a strong effect on the impressionable Angelo. Ho ...

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City' (2006)

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City". ...

Ritratto di Piero Bargellini (2005)

From Paolo Brunatto's series "Scheggie Di Utopia". ...

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth (2003)

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues. ...

Fortini/Cani (1977)

The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his alienation from Judaism and from the social relations around him, the rise of Fascism in Italy, the anti-Arab at ...

Othon (1971)

Straub-Huillet's first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus's Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast pe ...

The Seed of Man (1969)

During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future the majority of the European population has been wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Cino and Dora, a young couple, are rounded up by what constitutes the authorities on an isolated temporary base ...

Love and Anger (1969)

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in ...

Umano Non Umano (1969)

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances. ...

Dillinger Is Dead (1969)

A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen. ...

Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani (1969)

Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive. It 's a film that establishes the passage of rolling between two friends, and Brocani Schifano, shared the ...

Satellite (1968)

Journey into the Twilight (2021)

A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio. ...

Fellini's Circus (2011)

A documentary on the Fellini movie "Clowns. ...

In the Shade of the Conformist (2011)

In this visual essay, renowned film critic and historian Adriano Apra takes a closer look at Bernardo Bertolucci's work with Pier Paolo Pasolini on La Commare Secca and discusses its poetic qualities and visual style; Before the Revolution, which was inspi ...

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes (1993)

Made up almost entirely of archival interviews with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (with audio interviews playing over various behind-the-scene bits and archival footage) the director recalls his early life, how he got into film, his political be ...

The Mask (1988)

A debauched nobleman offers himself to a beautiful woman, but she is repelled by his advances. He dons a mask and tries again, and this time is more successful. But the mask cannot conceal the evil in his soul. ...

Olimpia to Friends (1970)

Pisa, 1942. Marcella, Olimpia's daughter, is suffering from meningioma. Her husband Pierluigi and her brother Daniel attempt to relieve Olympia's grief from the imminent loss of the child. ...