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1961-1965

Filming of Cleopatra recommences under the direction of Joseph L. Mankiewicz.   Rex Harrison replaces Peter Finch as Caesar, and Richard Burton replaces Stephen Boyd as Marc Anthony. [MORE] [ADD]

Writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini is arrested for attacking a gas station attendant while attempting to steal 2,000 lira from him. [MORE] [ADD]

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s first feature film, Accatone, is released.   Based on his own 1959 novel, the title character, played by Franco Citti, is a pimp from the slums of Rome.   At the premiere, members of Nouva-Europa, a neo-fascist movement, attack spectators and vandalise the cinema. [MORE] [ADD]

Divorzio all’Italiana (Divorce – Italian Style) (Pietro Germi) [MORE] [ADD]

Il giudizio universale (The Last Judgment) (Vittorio de Sica) [MORE] [ADD]

Il posto (The Job) (Ermanno Olmi) [MORE] [ADD]

La viaccia (Mauro Bolognini) [MORE] [ADD]

Renato Salvatori and Annie Girardot, who met on the set of Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and his Brothers), are married in Rome. [MORE] [ADD]

Producer Dino De Laurentiis lays the foundation stone for his Dinocittà studio in Rome. [MORE] [ADD]

Boccaccio '70, a series of short vignettes, directed by Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti and Mario Monicelli, premieres in Milan.   Romy Schneider, Sophia Loren and Anita Ekberg star. [MORE] [ADD]

Production of Luchino Visconti’s Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) is halted after Burt Lancaster injures his leg. [MORE] [ADD]

Rumours of a romance between Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, both of whom are married, appear in the press.    They are in Rome to film 20^th Century-Fox’s Cleopatra [MORE] [ADD]

Federico Fellini begins filming Otto e mezzo (Fellini's 8½) at the Cinecittà studios, with Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale and Sandra Milo. [MORE] [ADD]

At the Venice Film Festival, Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivanovo detstvo (Ivan's Childhood) and Valerio Zurlini's Cronaca familiare (Family Diary).share the Golden Lion. [MORE] [ADD]

Pier Paolo Pasolini is attacked by members of fascist groups at the premiere of his film Mamma Roma, in the Quattro Fontane Cinema in Rome. [MORE] [ADD]

– Restrictions on the number of American film imports are abolished. [MORE] [ADD]

La commare secca (The Grim Reaper) (Bernardo Bertolucci) [MORE] [ADD]

L’eclisse (The Eclipse) (Michelangelo Antonioni) [MORE] [ADD]

I nuovi angeli (The New Angels) (Ugo Gregoretti) [MORE] [ADD]

Salvatore Giuliano (Franceso Rosi) [MORE] [ADD]

Un uomo da bruciare (Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani) [MORE] [ADD]

Federico Fellini's 8½ is released.   The semi-autobiographical film’s title refers to the seven solo films and three collaborations he has made to date.   Marcello Mastroianni stars with Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Claudia Cardinale and Guido Alberti. [MORE] [ADD]

The Church attacks director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s segment of the film RoGoPaG for undermining state religion.   The film, which is co-directed by Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard, and Ugo Gregoretti, features Orson Welles and Laura Betti. [MORE] [ADD]

Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), an adaptation of the novel by Giuseppe De Lampedasa is released.   Burt Lancaster (cast to obtain an international release from 20^th Century-Fox), Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale star. [MORE] [ADD]

Pier Paolo Pasolini is found guilty of "public defamation" for La Ricotta, his satirical segment of the film RoGoPaG, and receives a four month suspended prison sentence. [MORE] [ADD]

– In 1963 Claudia Cardinale appeared on 32 magazine covers, Sophia Loren on 30 and Gina Lollobrigida on 11. [MORE] [ADD]

L’Ape Regina (Queen Bee) (Marco Ferreri) [MORE] [ADD]

I Fidanzati (The Engagement) (Ermanno Olmi) [MORE] [ADD]

Le Mani sulla città (Hands Over the City) (Francesco Rosi) [MORE] [ADD]

Twenty-four spaghetti westerns have been produced since the beginning of July 1963. [MORE] [ADD]

Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars is released.   Former small-part actor Clint Eastwood is catapulted to stardom as The Man With No Name in a violent and atmospheric western (based on Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (1961) that turns the genre on its head.  [MORE] [ADD]

Pier Paolo Pasolini's Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) is awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD]

Il Deserto Rosso ( The Red Desert) (Michelangelo Antonioni) [MORE] [ADD]

Matrimonio all’Italiana (Marriage Italian Style) (Vittorio de Sica) [MORE] [ADD]

Prima della rivoluzione (Before the Revolution) (Bernardo Bertolucci) [MORE] [ADD]

Brazilian director Glauber Rocha presents a manifesto entitled The Æsthetics of Hunger at the congress of "The Third World and the World Community." [MORE] [ADD]

Federico Fellini’s Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits), starring Giulietta Masina, is released. [MORE] [ADD]

Italy 1965: Other Films of Note

E venne un uomo (A Man Named John) (Ermanno Olmi) [MORE] [ADD]

Il Momento della verità (The Moment of Truth) (Francesco Rosi) [MORE] [ADD]

Per qualche dollaro in più (For a Few Dollars More) (Sergio Leone) [MORE] [ADD]

I pugni in tasca (Fists in the Pocket) (Marco Bellocchio) [MORE] [ADD]

Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... (Luchino Visconti) [MORE] [ADD]