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– Italy has the largest number of cinemas – 17,000 – in Europe. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The cinema screen quota requirement is amended to a minimum of 100 days of Italian productions a year. [MORE] [ADD] |
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On location in Rome, producer David O. Selznick sacks John Huston as director of A Farewell to Arms and replaces him with Charles Vidor. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini separate after seven years of marriage. Bergman gets custody of their three children, Roberto, Ingrid and Isabella on the condition that she stays in Europe until they are of age. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Pope Pius XII promulgates his encyclical Miranda Prorsus. He says about motion pictures, radio and television: 'They should serve the spread of truth so that the bonds between peoples will be made closer, so that men will have better mutual understanding and will assist one another in time of crisis, and, finally so that there will be genuine cooperation between public authority and individual citizens.' [MORE] [ADD] |
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William Wyler begins filming a new version of Ben-Hur in Rome. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The eight-year marriage of Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is annulled by the Vatican, leaving the way clear for Bergman to marry Swedish theatre producer Lars Schmidt. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The number of films in competition at the Venice Film Festival reaches a low with only 14 films competing – down from 31 in 1952. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The arrival of Brigitte Bardot at the Venice Film Festival creates a mini riot. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Ente Cinema SpA is founded. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Swedish actress Anita Ekberg arrives at Cinecittà to film Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. [MUCH] [ADD] |
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The sets used for director Carmine Gallone's film Carthage in Flames are destroyed in a fire at Cinecittà which injures 20 people. [MUCH] [ADD] |
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Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti return to Rome where Ponti risks facing charges of bigamy. The producer was divorced before marrying Loren on 17th November 1957, but Italian law does not recognise divorce. [MUCH] [ADD] |
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– La Muragli cinese (Behind the Great Wall) is released with the gimmick of Aromarama, which releases a total of 72 different smells into the cinema during screening. [MUCH] [ADD] |
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– The number of MPEA majors films that can be imported into Italy from America is cut to 185 per year. [MUCH] [ADD] |
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Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura is released and meets with a hostile reception from critics. In response, a statement, signed by, amongst others Roberto Rossellini, Jean Baral, Mario Ruspoli Di Poggio-Suasa, Nelly Kaplan, Ennio Lorenzini, Maurice Ronet, Alice Saprich, Yvonne Decaris, Anatole Daumon, Georges Sadoul, Robert Benayoun, Janine-André Bazin, defends the film, stating, "Aware of the exceptional importance of Michelangelo Antonioni's film, and disgusted by the demonstration of hostility which it has engendered, the members of the film profession and the critics whose names are signed below, also wish to express their wholehearted admiration for the maker of this film. Others who share that enthusiasm wish to make known their approval." [MORE] [ADD] |
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La Ciociara (Two Women), Vittorio De Sica’s adaptation of an Albert Moravia story, is released. Sophia Loren plays a widowed mother fleeing the allied bombing of Rome in 1943. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Italy 1960: Other Films of Note |
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Adua e le compagne (Hungry for Love) (Antonio Pietrangeli) [MORE] [ADD] |
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La Dolce vita (The Sweet Life) (Federico Fellini) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Rocco e I suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers) (Luchino Visconti) [MORE] [ADD] |