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Raffaello Matarazzo (17 August 1909 – 17 May 1966) was an Italian filmmaker. Life. Matarazzo started writing film reviews for the Roman newspaper Il Tevere before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films were comedies until he shifted to making melodramas.
Raffaello Matarazzo ( Roma, 17 agosto 1909 – Roma, 17 maggio 1966) è stato un regista, sceneggiatore e critico cinematografico italiano . Indice. 1 Biografia. 1.1 Gli inizi. 1.2 I film degli anni Trenta. 1.3 Gli anni Quaranta tra guerra, Spagna e dopoguerra. 1.4 Il successo degli anni Cinquanta. 1.5 Declino e solitudine negli anni Sessanta.
Raffaello Matarazzo started writing film reviews for the Roman newspaper Il Tevere before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films were comedies until he shifted to making melodramas. With Chains (1949), produced by Titanus in 1949, he became the most successful director in Italy. Audience loved his melodramas.
Jul 1, 2019 · This weekend, we’re bringing Matarazzo’s elemental passions to the Criterion Channel with a retrospective featuring six of the sensational, serpentinely plotted hits he made with overpowering stars Amedeo Nazzari and Yvonne Sanson.
Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, film critics, international festivalgoers, and other studious viewers were swept up by the tide of Italian neorealism.
Raffaello Matarazzo. Biography. Largely misunderstood, at best considered a little master of an Italian cinema in full revival after the war thanks to neo-realism, Raffaello Matarazzo is nevertheless the author of some sumptuous melodramas whose success was spectacular in post-fascist Italy.
Jun 21, 2011 · Raffaello Matarazzo had been making movies for years before Chains, but the popular triumph of that film set the course for the rest of his career and bore out Gustavo and Goffredo Lombardo’s prediction that the public was craving a new kind of melodrama.
