Tullio Kezich
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Tullio Kezich (17 September 1928 in
Biography
Kezich's experience as a film critic began in 1941 as an adolescent reader for the Italian magazines Cinema and Movies. He started reviewing professionally for Radio Trieste in 1946. In the early 1950s, he became a film critic with the Venice Film Festival, a collaboration that would last for over 60 years, and with the cinema magazine Sipario for which he later became editorial director between 1971-1974.
In 1982, he was a member of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]
During his long career as a film critic, he collaborated with
The author of numerous books on cinema, Kezich was also an actor and a playwright whose work is still widely performed throughout Europe.
Kezich died in Rome after a long illness, a month before his 81st year.
Screenwriting and producing
In 1950, Kezich worked as production secretary on
In 1961, he participated as an actor in
In 1987, Kezich co-wrote the screenplay,
In 2008, he was interviewed for the documentary Il falso bugiardo (The False Liar) by Claudio Costa on Italian screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni.
Biography of Fellini
Recognized as a world specialist[2] on Federico Fellini, his ground-breaking biography of the Italian director, Fellini, la vita e i film (Camunia, 1987), was revised and published in English as Fellini: His Life and Work in 2006. Film historian and critic Peter Cowie wrote that the book surpassed all the other works on the director in English, French and Italian.[2]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1950 | The White Line | Yugoslav Lieutenant | |
1952 | Shadows Over Trieste | Screenwriter | |
1961 | Il Posto | Psychologist | Uncredited, (final film role) |
2008 | Il falso bugiardo | Himself |
References
- ^ "Berlinale: 1984 Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ^ a b Peter Cowie "Life is Sweet", The Nation, 2 March 2006
External links
- Tullio Kezich at IMDb