12° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Proposal 1994

LA NOTTE AMERICANA DEL DOTTOR LUCIO FULCI

DOCTOR LUCIO FULCI'S DAY FOR NIGHT

Country: Italy
Year: 1994
Duration: 30'


Video portrait of a director "terrorized by genres". In 1990 Lucio Fulci directed, produced, and acted in the film, A Cat in the Brains, his own very personal "day for night": he is Lucio Fulci, horror movie director, who relives his own filmic obsessions in his selfanalysis bordering on trash something that is as foolish as it is self-deceptive. This is the take off for a real video portrait, in which the director of so many "genre" films (as well as of films often beyond genre) calls his own true ghosts back to life, from Totò to the zombies, accompanied by his living contradiction and desire that his "day for night" by hook or by crook be lit by a glimmer of recognition as "auteur".(Antonietta De Lillo).

Biography

film director

Antonietta De Lillo

Antonietta De Lillo (Naples, 1960) began working as a photo reporter and then, in 1985, directed with Giorgio Magliulo The Remains of Nothing, Silver Ribbon as Best First Film. Between 1992 and 1999 she made various documentaries and video portraits, including Ogni sedia ha il suo rumore, dedicated to Alda Merini. Her film Racconti di Vittoria (1995) received the FEDIC Award and the Film Critic Union’s Award in Venice, while Non è giusto participated at the Locarno Film Festival. The Remains of Nothing (2004), presented in Venice, won three David di Donatellos and the Flaiano Award for Best Screenplay. In 2007 she founded the production and distribution company Marechiarofilm, with which she made La pazza della porta accanto and Let’s Go, both presented at the Torino Film Festival, in 2013 and 2014.

FILMOGRAFIA

Angelo Novi fotografo di scena (doc., 1992), Promessi sposi (doc., 1993), Ogni sedia ha il suo rumore (doc., 1995), Viento ‘e Terra (1996), Il faro (2000), Non è giusto (2001), Pianeta Tonino (2002), Il resto di niente (2004), Il pranzo di Natale (2011), Oggi insieme, domani anche (2013), La pazza della porta accanto (mm, doc., 2013), Let’s Go (cm, doc., 2014), Oggi insieme domani anche (doc., 2015).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Antonietta De Lillo.
Intervista a cura di: Francesco Garofalo, Antonietta De Lillo.
Director of photography: Bruno Di Virgilio.
Editor: Giogiò Franchini.
Cast: Lucio Fulci.
Production company: Donatella Botti per Angio Film s.r.l., via Emanuele Filiberto 56, 00185 Roma, tel. +39-06-7008907, fax +39-06-7008952 Megaris s.r.l., via Fedro 7, 80122 Napoli, tel. +39-081-667974, fax +39-081-668109.
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