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Carlo Ponti
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Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s. Ponti worked with many of the most important directors of Italian cinema of the era, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Vittorio De Sica, as well as many international directors. He helped launch the career of his wife, international film star Sophia Loren. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for La Strada (1954) and was nominated for Best Picture for producing Doctor Zhivago (1965). In 1996, he was ascended as a Knight Grand Cross to the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlo Ponti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Trapped and Playing by Someone Else’s Rules
With the upcoming release of Jumanji: Open World, we trace the evolution of the survival game subgenre, following how the core premise of human beings forced to...
10 films
Riding the Circuit
From theme park gunslingers to bounty hunters on Mars, a journey through the sci-fi Western and the cultures that remade it.
8 films
Seven Decades of the LFF as a Gateway
A chain tracing the BFI London Film Festival's role as a bridge between British cinema and world cinema, from the Czech New Wave and Free Cinema to Andrea Arnol...
7 films
The Art of the Unresolved
From the sun-bleached streets of Los Angeles to the fog-bound docks of Hamburg, these eight films turn the detective story inside out, leaving questions hanging...
8 films
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Killer Fish
1979
A Special Day
1977
Brief Encounter
1976
The Passenger
1975
Run, Run, Joe!
1974
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973
Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment
1973
What?
1972
The Firemen's Ball
1967
The Man with the Balloons
1967
Blow-Up
1966
Kiss the Other Sheik
1965
The 10th Victim
1965
Casanova '70
1965
The Ape Woman
1964
Boccaccio '70
1962
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
1955
Human Torpedoes
1954
Lost Youth
1948