Franco Ferrini
Franco Ferrini (born 5 January 1944) is an Italian screenwriter. Ferrini was initially a film critic. Ferrini had worked on projects such as Elio Petri's unmade spy film Chi illumine la grande notte and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
Franco Ferrini
- Name
- Franco Ferrini
- Birthplace
- La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
- Occupation
- Screenwriter
- Known for
- Collaborations with Dario Argento
- Born
- 1944 · La Spezia.
- Nationality
- Italy
- Languages
- Italian
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Franco Ferrini (born 5 January 1944) is an Italian screenwriter. Ferrini was initially a film critic. Ferrini had worked on projects such as Elio Petri's unmade spy film Chi illumine la grande notte and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
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While Ferrini is credited as one of the five screenwriters on the Leone's film, intensive revisions of the drafts for the film were done during the later half of the 1970s. Leone said that Stuart Kaminsky and Leonardo Benvenuti were the principal contributors who "miraculously concluded" the screenplay. Ferrini has made several films collaborating with Dario Argento, with the first being Phenomena (1985). He was one of the interviewees represented in the book Spaghetti Nightmares.
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• Name — Franco Ferrini • Birthplace — La Spezia, Liguria, Italy • Occupation — Screenwriter • Known for — Collaborations with Dario Argento
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• Title — Year — Credited as — Notes — Ref(s) Reference(s) • Screenwriter — Screen story writer — Other • Crimebusters — 1976 • Red Rings of Fear — 1978 • Once Upon a Time in America — 1984 • Phenomena — 1985 • Demons — 1985 • Nothing Underneath — 1985 • Demons 2 — 1986 • Sweets from a Stranger — 1987 — Director • Opera — 1987 • 1989 • Etoile — 1989 • Two Evil Eyes — 1990 • 1996 • Dark Glasses — 2022
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- 1.Luca M. Palmerini. Spaghetti nightmares: Italian fantasy-horrors as seen through the eyes of their protagonists. Fantasma Books. 7, 49–54. 1996. 978-0-9634982-7-4.
- 2.Filmportal.de. Orgie des Todes.
- 3.American Film Institute. Once Upon a Time in America.
- 4.Arrow Video. Dario Argento's Phenomena. 3. 2017.
- 5.Arrow Video. Dario Argento's Phenomena. 55. 2017.
- 6.Archivio Del Cinema Italiano. Sotto il vestito niente (1985).
- 7.Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Opera (1987).
- 8.British Film Institute. Opera. BFI Film & TV Database.
- 9.Manisco, Elisa. Dario Argento: tutti i miei brividi. la Repubblica. 4 February 2022.
- 10.Miska, Brad. 'Dark Glasses': Dario Argento's Return to Giallo to World Premiere in Berlin!. Bloody Disgusting. 19 January 2022.
- 11.Deadline. Berlin Review: Dario Argento's 'Dark Glasses'. February 11, 2022.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- cite book
- Curti, Roberto. Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. 2013. 978-0786469765.
- Curti, Roberto. Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989. McFarland. 2019. 978-1476672434.
- Curti, Roberto. Italian Giallo in Film and Television. McFarland. 2022. 978-1-4766-8248-8.
- cite book
- Gallant, Chris. Art of Darkness: The Cinema of Dario Argento. FAB Press. 2000. 1903254078.
- Howarth, Troy. Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films. Midnight Marquee Press. 2015.
- Howarth, Troy. So Deadly, So Perverse. Midnight Marquee Press. 2. 2015b. 978-1936168583.
- Martin, Adrian. Once Upon a Time in America. Bloomsbury Publishing. 1998. 9781838717513.
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