Gianni Di Venanzo

Director Of Photography

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Gianni Divenanzo

Birth Place

Teramo, IT

Born

December 18, 1920

Died

January 03, 1966

Biography

One of post-war Italy's leading cinematographers, Di Venanzo has shot films for Antonioni, Fellini and Francesco Rosi....

Filmography

Kiss the Other Sheik (1968)

Director of Photography

My Wife's Enemy (1967)

Director of Photography

The Honey Pot (1967)

Director of Photography

Salvatore Giuliano (1966)

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L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I've Already Decided

L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I Made A Million

Biography

One of post-war Italy's leading cinematographers, Di Venanzo has shot films for Antonioni, Fellini and Francesco Rosi.

Filmography

Life Events

1942

Broke into feature film as a camera operator on "Ossessions"

1951

Debut as a cinematographer, "Achtung Banditi"

1955

First collaboration with director Michelangelo Antonioni, "Le Amiche"

1963

Served as director of photography on Federico Fellini's "Otto e Mezzo"

1967

Final feature work, Joseph L Mankiewicz's "The Honey Pot"

Videos

L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I've Already Decided Most of Michelangelo Antonioni's disorienting opening scene, Monica Vitti as Vittoria, Francisco Rabal as boyfriend Riccardo, inside an apartment in Rome's modernistic EUR district, from the third film in the trilogy begun with L'Avventura and La Notte, L'Eclisse, 1962.

L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I Made A Million Advancing no particular story line, Vittoria (Monica Vitti) visits the Rome stock exchange, where she flags down her mother (Lilla Brignone) and incidentally meets her broker Piero (Alain Delon), in third film Michelangelo Antonioni's trilogy of the period, L'Eclisse, 1962.

L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Don't The Hippopotami Bother You? Bored Roman apartment dwellers Vittoria (Monica Vitti), who's just left her boyfriend, and Anita (Rossana Rory) visit Marta (Mirella Ricciardi), just moved home Africa, her racist views put to improbable use by director Michelangelo Antonioni, in L'Eclisse, 1962.

L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) -- (Movie Clip) This Is What Mama's Afraid Of Having retreated to the apartment of her mother (Lilla Brignone) from the Rome stock exchange, this is the first full encounter between newly unattached Vittoria (Monica Vitti) and Piero (Alain Delon), her mother's broker, in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Eclisse, 1962.

8 1/2 -- (1963) -- (Movie Clip) An Impoverished Poetic Inspiration At the spa for mineral water, Claudia (Claudia Cardinale) appears to glide in before movie director Guido (Marcello Mastroianni) enters conversation with writer Fabrizio (Jean Rougeul), in Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, 1963.

La Notte (1961) -- (Movie Clip) That What You Did Was Vile? Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni) confesses his sexual liaison just minutes earlier with a stranger, to his unimpressed wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau), en route to a party marking publication of his new novel, in Michelangelo Antonioni's drama of alienation, La Notte, 1962.

La Notte (1961) -- (Movie Clip) It Would Be Pointless Joining director Michelangelo Antonioni's deliberate opening, we meet hospitalized Tomasso (Bernhard Wicki) , Giovanni and Lidia (Marcello Mastroainni, Jeanne Moreau) completing their progress through Milan, interrupted by a neighbor (Maria Pia Luzi), in La Notte, 1962.

La Notte (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Every Millionaire Wants His Own Intellectual Director Michelangelo Antonioni makes clear how desperately bored his principals, writer Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni) and wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau), are with their lives and each other, barely able to decide whether to attend an upper-crust Milan party, in La Notte, 1962.

8 1/2 -- (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Don't You Recognize Me? Movie director Guido (Marcello Mastroianni) meets his mother (Giuditta Rissone) and father (Annibale Ninchi) in a dreamy sequence beginning in his bedroom, early in Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, 1963.

8 1/2 -- (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Down For Good The arresting opening, a film director trapped in his car, from Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, 1963, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee and Sandra Milo.

8 1/2 -- (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Now She'll Bring Up Her Husband Two scenes between movie director Guido (Marcello Mastroianni) and his neurotic mistress Carla (Sandro Milo), hiding out at a cheap hotel, early in Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, 1963.

Juliet of the Spirits -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Anniversary Opening credits and the delightful opening sequence in which Juliet (Giuletta Masina) and maids prepare to receive her husband on their anniversary, from Federico Fellinia's Juliet of the Spirits, 1965.

Honey Pot, The - (Original Trailer) Rex Harrison plays a millionaire out to fleece former lovers in The Honey Pot (1967) from the writer/director of All About Eve.

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