03 June 2024
Every month we offer an offer on three titles from our editorial catalogue.
Marco Bellocchio, Francesca Calvelli. Movie time
It is part of «Black and White: quarterly magazine of the Experimental Cinematography Center», a. 83, no. 603, May-Aug 2022
author: Enrico Magrelli (ed.)
year: 2022
pages: 175
publisher: Experimental Center of Cinematography; Sabinae Editions
ISBN: 9791280023407
ordinary selling price: €22.00
discounted price (20%): €17.60
Couple in work (Francesca Calvelli and Marco Bellocchio have made about fifteen films together, from The Dream of the Butterfly in 1994 to the amazing TV series Esterno notte in 2022) and couple in life, for almost thirty years. The idea was born from the desire to celebrate two excellences of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Marco Bellocchio attended the CSC between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, graduating in Directing after initially enrolling in the Acting course. Francesca Calvelli graduated from the CSC in Editing with Roberto Perpignani as her main teacher, and years later he took her place as the reference teacher of the course, together with Annalisa Forgione. The intent is also to enhance those who work behind the scenes of cinema, in a role – that of editor – which is crucial in the construction of a film and often profoundly determines its artistic value.
Author’s note: Enrico Magrelli, journalist and film critic, author and host of the “Hollywood Party” program (Radio 3). Artistic director of IFF/Berlin and TFF/Viterbo. Managing director of Taxidrivers.it. He is part of the management committee of the Bif & st in Bari and, for over twenty years, has collaborated with the Venice Film Festival. He has written or edited many books dedicated to various authors: from Robert Altman to Nagisa Oshima, from Roman Polanski to Nanni Moretti, from Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Carlo Verdone. As a television writer he has created variety programmes, among others, some editions of “Domenica In” and the “Sanremo Festival”, three editions of the “Oscar Night” and various specials dedicated to cinema, such as the 2015 edition of ” David di Donatello” and the 2015 and 2016 editions of the “EFA” (European Film Academy). He was Curator of the National Film Library-Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia from 2009 to 2012.
Roberto Rossellini documentary maker. A culture of reality
author: Luca Caminati
year: 2012
pages: 148
publisher: Experimental Center of Cinematography; Carocci
ISBN: 9788843066124
necklace: Higher studies. Library of texts and studies; 759
ordinary selling price: €17.00
discounted price (20%): €13.60
Luca Caminati’s book studies the “culture of reality” that informs all of Rossellini’s work, paying particular attention to the documentary production of the director who fully demonstrates his “scopic” skills, the result not only of a question of eyes, but – jointly – of ethics and aesthetics.
Starting from the first experiments of the late 1930s – such as Fantasia sottomarina of 1938-39 – up to the documentaries of the 1970s – the latest one on Le Center Georges Pompidou – Rossellini has in fact investigated reality through television reportage (L’India seen by Rossellini, 1957-59), the journalistic interview (Interview with Allende, 1971-73), the educational film (Rice University, 1971-73), the historical celebration (the two films on Turin and l’Unità d’ Italy, 1961).
The volume is enriched by an exceptional photographic collection; afterword and filmography are by Adriano Aprà, the most authoritative scholar of Rossellini’s work.
Author’s note: Luca Caminati is associate professor of Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal, where he works on documentary cinema and postcolonial studies. He is the author of Heretical Orientalism. Pier Paolo Pasolini and the cinema of the Third World (Bruno Mondadori, 2007), Cinema as a happening. Pasolini’s primitivism and the Italian art scene of the 1960s (Postmedia, 2010) and numerous essays on contemporary Italian directors including, recently, Gianni Amelio, Giorgio Diritti and Pietro Marcello, which appeared in specialized magazines such as «Bianco e Nero» and « Studies in Documentary Film”.
Giuseppe Rotunno the truth of light
author: Orio Caldiron
year: 2007
pages: 197
publisher: Experimental Center of Cinematography; Skira Publisher
ISBN: 9788876249006
ordinary selling price: €40.00
discounted price (20%): €32.00
CSC’s tribute to one of its most prestigious teachers, Giuseppe Rotunno, great director of photography, master of lighting masterpieces that have marked the history of cinema. He has spanned half a century of cinema, working with Visconti, Fellini, De Sica, Rossellini, Wertmüller, Monicelli, Pietrangeli, Risi, Zurlini, Freda, Stanley Kramer, Bob Fosse, Mike Nichols, Robert Altman, Terry Gilliam.
Author’s note: Orio Caldiron was a professor of cinema history and criticism for many years at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He was also President of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia from 1996 to 1998. He has written numerous works, both as an author and as a curator; among the best-known publications: Cinema. 1936-1943: before neorealism (2002), Prince Totò (2002), Pietro Germi, the frontier and the law (2004), The fortunes of melodrama (2004), Man, come out! Published and unpublished subjects for cinema by Cesare Zavattini (2006), Giuseppe Rotunno. The Truth of Light (2007).
