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Mario Canale
(Ferrara, 1948) was editor of the weeklies Il Male and Zut and the monthly Frigidaire. From 1981-98 he worked as a director for various shows and television series for RAI and Mediaset. From 1994-96 he hosted La Televisione del Cinema at the Venice Film Festival. In 2004 he and Carla Cattani co-directed the documentary Racconti dall’Euro. From 1999-2003 he put out the video magazine of ItaliaCinema, the agency that promoted Italian films abroad. He made the videos Notturni Diamanti (1984) and Maledetto Trussardi (1988). In 1991 he wrote and directed the medium-length film Mosca la Cittŕ Parallela. In 1994 his short film Steadycam screened at the Venice and Turin film festivals. In 2006 he and Annarosa Morri made the documentary Marcello, Una Vita Dolce, which was selected in the section Cannes Classic at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2007 he made the documentaries Marco Ferreri, Il Regista che Venne dal Futuro and Sostiene Ferreri. He and Annarosa Morri co-directed the documentary Settanta Volte Set for Cinecittŕ’s seventieth anniversary and Gillo: Le Donne i Cavalier l’Armi e gli Amori. In 2008 and Marcello Villani co-directed by the documentary Č la Russia Ragazzi!
Vittorio De Sica was perhaps the most prolific and versatile actor and director of Italian cinema. His extraordinary career spanned 50 years, from his days as a young theatre actor, to singer, star of “Telefoni Bianchi” films; the sophisticated protagonist of international cinema; and founder, with Zavattini, Rossellini and Visconti, of Neorealism. Able to traverse the war years, the reconstruction, the boom and the comedies of the 1960s and 70s, De Sica constantly renewed his directing style and continued his extraordinary work as an actor. The true question is: how does one keep from losing one’s way in this ocean? The answer was a search to see what remains, today, of Vittorio De Sica and how much cinema has been able to absorb and use his lesson.
Mario Canale & Annarosa Morri
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