Steve Della Casa
Stefano "Steve" Della Casa (born 25 May 1953) is an Italian film critic, documentarist, essayist and festival curator.
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Steve Della Casa
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- Birthplace
- Turin, Italy
- Occupation
- Film critic
- Born
- 1953 · Turin.
- Nationality
- Italy
- Languages
- Italian
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Stefano "Steve" Della Casa (born 25 May 1953) is an Italian film critic, documentarist, essayist and festival curator.
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• Birthplace — Turin, Italy • Occupation — Film critic
Life and career
Life and career
Born in Turin, Della Casa graduated in cinema history under Gianni Rondolino. In 1974, he co-founded Turin's Movie Club, a major Italian film society, and in 1982, he co-founded the Festival Cinema Giovani, later known as Turin Film Festival. He directed the festival from 1998 to 2002. After serving as president of the Film Commission Torino Piemonte, he was appointed artistic director of the Rome Film Festival, a position he held from 2007 to 2013. In 2022, Della Casa was appointed president of the Turin Festival for the second time, a role he held for two editions. In 2024, he was named Conservatore of the Cineteca Nazionale. Della Casa has directed several documentary films; in 2016, he won a Nastro d'Argento for I Tarantiniani, and in 2017, he received a special Nastro d'Argento for Perchè sono un genio! Lorenza Mazzetti and Nessuno ci può giudicare. He wrote numerous film essays, and worked as television and radio writer. He is a professor of film history at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.
Personal life
Personal life
Della Casa's nick "Steve" is a reference to sword-and-sandal film star Steve Reeves. He is a Torino FC supporter.
Books
• Mario Monicelli (1986) • Mario Mattoli (1990) • Riccardo Freda (1999) • Dario Argento, il brivido della critica cinematografica (2000) • Officina torinese. Una passeggiata in cento anni di cinema (2000, with Lorenzo Ventavoli) • Turin, berceau du cinéma italien (2001) • Storia e storie del cinema popolare italiano (2001) • Capitani coraggiosi. Produttori italiani 1945-1975 (2003) • La buca di Maspero in Scrittori in curva (2009) • Hollywood sul Tevere (2010) • Il professor matusa e i suoi hippies, Cinema e musica in Italia (2011) • Pop Film Art. Visual culture, moda e design nel cinema italiano anni '60 e '70 (2012, with Dario Edoardo Viganò) • Sbatti Bellocchio in sesta pagina (2012, with Paolo Manera) • Il grande libro di Ercole. Il cinema mitologico in Italia (2013, with Marco Giusti) • Spendor (2014) • Dino Risi. Pensieri, parole, immagini (2016) • Acido Fenico, Graphic novel (2016, with Giancarlo De Cataldo and Luca Saviotti) • L'Italia all'Oscar (2019, with Vincenzo Mollica) • Menamose (2022) • Argento, due o tre cose che sappiamo di lui (2023)
Steve Della Casa, direttore del Torino Film Festival dall 1999 al 2002, ci parla del suo film Nessuno ci può giudicare, presentato al TFF 34 nella sezione Festa Mobile. Per approfondimenti e informazioni sul TFF
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- 1.Steve Della Casa - Enciclopedia del cinema in Piemonte. www.torinocittadelcinema.it.
- 2.Gabriele Ferraris. Capii che l'operaio non cambia il mondo. La Stampa ed. nazionale. 17 gennaio 2008.
- 3.Angelo Azzurro, una morte che pesa sul cuore della città, di Marina Cassi, pubblicato da La Stampa il 1º ottobre 2007, nell'anniversario dei trent'anni dall'accaduto
- 4.Claudio Laugeri. Addio agli Anni 70: per Steve si avvicina la riabilitazione. La Stampa. 31 marzo 2006.
- 5."Uomini dai mille volti" Toro.it
- 6.Granata Day 2011, premiato Antonino Asta.
- 7.BIF&ST 15 - A festival di Bari Luc Merenda in "Pretendo l’Inferno" - CinemaItaliano.info. www.cinemaitaliano.info.
- 8.La Stampa, 28 maggio 2013
- 9.Il Messaggero di Roma. Christian Olcese realizza: La ragazza delle gardenie. 2024-06-01.
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