Ginger and Fred
,
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
,
Gangs of New York
... the big financier of these legendary films was him.
The Italian producer Alberto Grimaldi, cinematographic accomplice of Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese and of course of Sergio Leone, died on January 23 at the age of 95 years “
of natural causes
”, specified his son, Maurizio Grimaldi, on the site American Variety.
Read also: Sergio Leone on all fronts at the Cinémathèque française
A man of cinema with eclectic tastes, Alberto Grimaldi, worked during a career that spanned half a century, from 1962 to 2002, with masters of intellectual cinema such as Pier Paolo Pasolini (
Salo or the 120 days of Sodom
), Bernardo Bertolucci (
The Last Tango in Paris
), Federico Fellini (
Ginger and Fred
,
Satyricon
), but also of course with Sergio Leone, the virtuoso of spaghetti westerns (
For a handful of dollars
,
For a few dollars more
,
Le Bon, the Brute and the Ugly
).
His latest film,
Gangs of New York
(2002), directed by Martin Scorsese, will in a way complete his brilliant career by receiving two Golden Globes, a Bafta and no less than ten Oscar nominations.
Read also: A punchy Scorsese retrospective at the Grand Rex
An eclectic producer
Alberto Grimaldi was born in Naples on March 28, 1925. After studying law, in 1961 he created the production company Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA).
A follower of what was then called “
co-production
”, he began his career by helping to create a genre that would mark cinema, the spaghetti western.
His first feature film
L'ombra di Zorro
by Joaquin Luis Romero Marchent will pave the way for his productions with Sergio Leone, from which will be born the famous
Dollar Trilogy
which will reveal to the whole world the great acting talent of Clint Eastwood.
Curious and in love with all forms of cinema Alberto Grimaldi, in the 1970s, began to work with more cerebral directors.
Among his greatest successes we can cite
The Last Tango in Paris
by Bernardo Bertolucci and
Ginger and Fred
, the most nostalgic of the films of the Roman maestro, Federico Fellini.
As a tribute to Alberto Grimaldi's career,
Le Figaro
presents, in images, extracts from the films
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
,
Ginger and Fred
and
Gangs of New York
.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by Sergio Leone, in 1966, with Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach ...
Ginger and Fred
by Federico Fellini, in 1986, with Marcello Mastroianni, Giuletta Masina ...
Gangs of New York
by Martin Scorsese, in 2002, with Leonardo DICaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis ...
