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Adriano Aprà (18 November 1940 – 15 April 2024) was an Italian film critic, film historian, screenwriter, director, festival curator, academic and occasional actor.
Renowned Italian film critic, historian, filmmaker, actor, book editor, and teacher, Adriano Aprà, passed away last week on April 15th. His intellectual journey began in high school as a “self-taught” scholar after discovering Leo Spitzer’s literary analysis.
Apr 16, 2024 · Adriano Aprà – to use an image from Serge Daney – is a passeur. Someone who literally passed through the cinema of the last century, facing forward. He confirmed this himself, writing perhaps his last text only a couple of months ago (dated February 12, 2024 and published in Indian Nation).
Adriano Aprà is considered one of the major Italian specialists in film history of his generation. He started his critical career by collaborating on "Filmcritica", and co-founding "Cinema e Film" (both magazines were the Roman equivalents of "Cahiers du cinema" or "Positif"), before being involved in the direction of the Pesaro and ...
Biografia. Era fratello dell'attore Pier Luigi Aprà. Critico, saggista, organizzatore culturale, fondò e diresse la rivista Cinema e Film. Curò libri su André Bazin, Jean-Luc Godard, Raffaello Matarazzo, Andy Warhol, Straub e Huillet, Alessandro Blasetti, Pietro Germi, Roberto Rossellini.
Apr 15, 2024 · Uno dei più grandi studiosi di cinema italiani se ne va senza aver mai rinunciato a pretendere il massimo dall'arte tanto amata. Direttore della Mostra del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro e per 4 anni della Cineteca Nazionale, è stato docente, saggista, regista e pure attore.
Adriano Aprà is known as an Actor, Director, Writer, and Original Concept. Some of his work includes Othon, Dillinger Is Dead, Umano Non Umano, Love and Anger, A Matter of Heart, Fortini/Cani, The Seed of Man, and L'età d'oro.
