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Masaki Kobayashi (小林 正樹, Kobayashi Masaki, February 14, 1916 – October 4, 1996) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, best known for the epic trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961), the samurai films Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967), and the horror anthology Kwaidan (1964). [1]
Giotto di Bondone (Italian: [ˈdʒɔtto di bonˈdoːne]; c. 1267 [a] – January 8, 1337), [2] [3] known mononymously as Giotto [b], was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. [7]
Stefano instructed his son while Maso was studying the works of the great Giotto. Since Maso formed his style on Giotto's works, he became known as Giottino, the "little Giotto". [1] The frescoes in the chapel of San Silvestro in the Florentine Basilica of Santa Croce are attributed to Giottino.
Detail from Crucifixion, a fresco in the Oratorio di San Giorgio of Padua. Altichiero da Zevio (c. 1330 – c. 1390), also called Aldighieri da Zevio, was an Italian painter much influenced by Giotto, certainly through knowledge of the frescoes in the Cappella degli Scrovegni in Padua and quite possibly through having been trained in Florence by one of Giotto's pupils.
Myn Bala (Kazakh: Жаужүрек мың бала, Jaujürek myñ bala) is a 2011 Kazakh historical dramatic film depicting the eighteenth century war fought between the Kazakhs and the Dzungar Khanate. [1] The film was made to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Kazakhstan's independence from the Soviet Union. Its production cost over $7 ...
In the film context, for Italian audiences giallo refers to any kind of murder mystery or horror thriller, regardless of its national origin. [8]Meanwhile, English-speaking audiences have used the term giallo to refer specifically to a genre of Italian-produced thriller-horror films known to Italian audiences as giallo all'italiana.
Giotto made the closest approach to Halley's Comet and provided the best data for this comet. [10] Giotto was the first spacecraft: to provide detailed pictures of a cometary nucleus. [11] to make a close flyby of two comets. Young and active comet Halley could be compared to old comet Grigg–Skjellerup.
The Son's Room was the winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, [16] noted for being the first Italian film to win the highest Cannes honour in over 20 years. [17] The film was Italy's submission to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , [ 18 ] but it was not nominated.