Giovanni Grazzini

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Giovanni Grazzini (born January 6, 1925 in Florence , Italy ; † August 18, 2001 in Rome ) was an Italian journalist , literary and film critic .

Life

Giovanni Grazzini studied art at the University of Florence . From 1952 to 1961 he worked as an editorial assistant and literary critic for the Italian daily La Nazione . At the same time he wrote several articles for Nuova antologia , Il mondo and Il ponte . From 1962 until his retirement in 1989 he then worked as a film critic for the Italian daily Corriere della Sera as a film critic. From 1974 to 1993 he was president of the Associazione Nazionale dei Critici Cinematografici , the Italian association of film critics.

In total, Grazzini wrote and published over 25 books on cinema, including collections of his film reviews. His 1983 interview book, Federico Fellini , was published in 1984 under the title Why don't you make a beautiful love story? and in 1993 published by Diogenes Verlag in German under the title Fellini über Fellini .

Works (selection)

  • La donna nel cinema italiano dagli anni Sessanta a oggi (1980)
  • L'intervista sul cinema (1983)
  • Dolci pestiferi perversi: i bambini del cinema (1995)
  • La memoria negli tatting: Boleslaw Matuszewski, un pioniere del cinema (1999)
  • Gli ultimi divi (2001)
  • Scrittori al cinema (2002)

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personal data
SURNAME Grazzini, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist, literary and film critic
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence , Italy
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 2001
Place of death Rome , Italy