Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Bertolucci released a documentary in 2006, Pasolini prossimo nostro, based on an interview with Pasolini done on the set of Salò in 1975.

After being discovered by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi for Vacanze col Gangster ( Holiday with the Gangster, 1951 ) at an early age of 12, he had, after 27 movies in Italy ( including Gli sbandati ), a major film role in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard ( Il Gattopardo, 1963 ).

In Europe, Art Cinema gains wider distribution and sees movements like la Nouvelle Vague ( The French New Wave ) featuring French filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard ; Cinéma Vérité documentary movement in Canada, France and the United States ; Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Chilean filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and Polish filmmakers Roman Polanski and Wojciech Jerzy Has produced original and offbeat masterpieces and the high-point of Italian filmmaking with Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini making some of their most known films during this period.

In early 2003, Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore announced he would direct a film called Leningrad, and he expressed interest in casting Nicole Kidman in the role of the female love interest.

The Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini observed:

His father's background helped his career: the elder Bertolucci had helped the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini publish his first novel, and Pasolini reciprocated by hiring Bertolucci as first assistant in Rome on Accattone ( 1961 ), where he met his first wife, Adriana Asti.

Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini ( born 18 June 1952 ) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model.

In the mid-1980s, Sarandon dated Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri.

Antonio Margheriti ( 19 September 1930 – 4 November 2002 ), also known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, was a prolific Italian filmmaker.

Italian Neorealist filmmaker Vittorio De Sica was also born here.

In 1933 she was acting in experimental plays in Rome when she was discovered by Italian filmmaker Goffredo Alessandrini.

* 4 Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack.

Satyajit Ray cited Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ) and French filmmaker Jean Renoir's The River ( 1951 ), which he assisted, as influences on his debut film Pather Panchali ( 1955 ).

* Gillo Pontecorvo, a Jewish Italian filmmaker

" Patrick also starred in the Psychological thriller The Black Water of Echo's Pond, which was directed by Italian filmmaker Gabriel Bologna.

The following year, he took a role in I Cavalieri che fecero l ' impresa aka The Knights of the Quest, a film by Italian filmmaker Pupi Avati.

Director Singh drew inspiration from the Italian painter Caravaggio and Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.

Joe D ' Amato, ( birth name: Aristide Massaccesi ) ( 15 December 1936 in Rome-23 January 1999 in Rome ) was a prolific Italian filmmaker who directed roughly 200 films, usually at the same time acting as producer and cinematographer, and sometimes providing the script as well.

* Tinto Brass ( born 1933 ), Italian filmmaker

Giovanni Brass ( born 26 March 1933 ), better known as Tinto Brass, is an Italian filmmaker.

Some critics, such as Tim Lucas and Alan Upchurch, have also compared Ptushko to Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, who made fantasy and horror films with similarities to Ptushko's work and made similarly innovative use of color cinematography and special effects.

* Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model

De Palma, whose background is Italian Roman Catholic, was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Vivienne ( née Muti ) and Anthony Federico De Palma, an orthopedic surgeon.

* 1981 – Federico Balzaretti, Italian footballer

* 1983 – Federico Marchetti, Italian footballer

Federico Fellini (; January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993 ) was an Italian film director and scriptwriter.

** Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbons for Best Cinematography in B & W ( Gianni Di Venanzo ), Best Director ( Federico Fellini ), Best Original Story ( Fellini and Flaiano ), Best Producer ( Angelo Rizzoli ), Best Score ( Nino Rota ), Best Screenplay ( Fellini, Pinelli, Flaiano, Rondi ), and Best Supporting Actress ( Sandra Milo )

The technology was developed by Italian physicist Federico Faggin in 1968, who later joined Intel in order to develop the very first Central Processing Unit ( CPU ) on one chip ( Intel 4004 ), for which he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2010.

Federico Zandomeneghi was another Italian friend of Degas who showed with the Impressionists.

Italian director Federico Fellini won the first foreign language film Academy Award with La strada and garnered another Academy Award with Nights of Cabiria.

** Federico Fellini, Italian film director ( b. 1920 )

* May 24 – Federico Luigi, Conte Menabrea, Italian soldier and statesman ( b. 1809 )

** Federico Fellini, Italian film director ( d. 1993 )

** Federico Zuccari, Italian painter ( d. 1609 )

* July 20 – Federico Zuccari, Italian painter ( b. 1543 )

** Federico Barocci, Italian painter ( d. 1612 )

An Italian riding instructor, Captain Federico Caprilli, heavily influenced the world of jumping with his ideas promoting a forward position with shorter stirrups.

After Rossini moved to Paris in 1824, Pacini and his contemporaries ( Giacomo Meyerbeer, Nicola Vaccai, Michele Carafa, Carlo Coccia, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, the brothers Federico and Luigi Ricci, and Saverio Mercadante ) collectively began to change the nature of Italian opera and took bel canto singing in a new direction.

An important point to note is that out of Scorsese's selection of Italian films from a select group of directors ( Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Michelangelo Antonioni ) Rossellini's films form at least half of the films discussed and analyzed, highlighting Rossellini's monumental role in Italian and world cinema.

* September 10 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian mercenary ( b. 1422 )

* Roma ( 1972 film ), Italian film directed by Federico Fellini

He appeared in several Italian films starting in 1953, turning in one of his best performances as a dim-witted, thuggish and volatile strongman in Federico Fellini's La strada ( 1954 ) opposite Giulietta Masina.

Another old friend, Federico Halbherr, the Italian archaeologist and future excavator of Phaistos, was keeping him posted on developments at Knossos by mail.

His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well.

Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts.