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Elio Petri: Notes on a filmmaker (Elio Petri: appunti su un autore, 2005) Director: Federico Bacci, Stefano Leone, Nicola Guarneri This film on Elio Petri’s career is narrated through interviews with both his collaborators and the artist himself. Including Robert Altman, Ursula Andress, Bernardo Bertolucci, Florinda Bolkan, Flavio Bucci, Lino Capolicchio, Marina Cicogna, Dante Ferretti, Gianni Fucci, Antonio Ghirelli, Giancarlo Giannini, Jean Gili, Marco Giusti, Tonino Guerra, Luigi Kuweiller, Carlo Lizzani, Enrico Lucherini, Francesco Maselli, Mariangela Melato, Giuliano Montaldo, Ennio Morricone, Franco Nero, Paola Pascolini, Berto Pelosso, Gillo Pontecorvo, Vanessa Redgrave, Marco Risi, Aggeo Savioli, Furio Scarpelli, this is a compelling movie. What would the "Capoccione" (a nickname given to Elio by Marcello and Ruggero Mastroianni, and which roughly translates "the brain") have said about this or that? Only when this project was nearing completion did I remember what he had said about documentaries in an interview: that he didn't like them at all. Maybe that’s why he never wanted to show me those that he had made when he was young. So every time the problems with this project would accumulate and overwhelm me, I would think that maybe it was Elio telling me that this documentary shouldn't be done. |
