(ANSA) - LOCARNO, AUGUST 13 - Choosing a film "is like getting married. It is not that one says' marry this lady because she wears dark jackets or because she has a house in the country, one decides when one feels it is the right choice,".
DanteSpinotti, extraordinary director of photography between Italy and Hollywood, Pardo alla morte at the Locarno Film Festival says so.
Born in 1943, Spinotti, born in Tolmezzo and raised in Lendinara, in the province of Rovigo ("I have always had good votes, except the eight in the drawing"), in his career he has worked with filmmakers such as Sergio Citti, Liliana Cavani, LinaWertmuller, Ermanno Olmi, Roberto Benigni, Gabriele Salvatores, Giuseppe Tornatore, Garry Marshall, Bruce Beresford, CurtisHanson (for LA Confidential he gets his first Oscar nomination), forming real partnerships with directors like MichaelMann (with him the second Oscar nomination for The Insider) or Michael Apted. He has passed through every genre of cinema, including superhero movies, such as Brett Ratner's X men- and Peyton Reed's Ant-man and the wasp three years ago. Perhaps the most difficult genre "is comedy - he adds -. We expect everyone to be enlightened.As Garry Marshall told me, 'I have to see Dante's faces, not be too dark'.
Ironic, self-deprecating and polite, he arrives at the meeting with the public in Locarno, explains that for him "there is no author cinema, there is good cinema and bad cinema". Among the anecdotes, those for Pinocchio (2002) by Benigni: "You are very lucky when you make a film with him, it is a unique experience….
I asked him why on the set he never got angry and he replied that he would not be credibly angry and dressed as Pinocchio. "Dino DeLaurentiis introduces him to the reality of Hollywood, for Michael Mann's Manhunter (1986):" He is part of those directors, like Kubrick, who control everything on set. In the midst of filming we hardly speak because we prepare everything first. "Spinotti, who has a documentary on Naples directed by Trudie Styler, immediately welcomed the advent of digital with favor:" stories, the soul that is inside ".
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