Why this filmmaker matters
Alfio Contini has 0 features photographed in the Nutevio catalogue.
Performer
Cinematographer in the Nutevio catalogue.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Alfio Contini has 0 features photographed in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are rewatchability, visual style, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Contini set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Liliana Cavani
Director
5 shared titles · Ripley's Game

Michelangelo Antonioni
Director
4 shared titles · Zabriskie Point

Terence Hill
Actor
3 shared titles · God Forgives... I Don't!
Giuseppe Colizzi
Director
3 shared titles · God Forgives... I Don't!

Dino Risi
Director
3 shared titles · Il Sorpasso

Ettore Scola
Screenplay
2 shared titles · Il Sorpasso
Ruggero Maccari
Screenplay
2 shared titles · Il Sorpasso

Franco Arcalli
Editor
2 shared titles · Zabriskie Point
Marco Barboni
Screenplay
2 shared titles · Renegade
Amedeo Pagani
Screenplay
2 shared titles · The Night Porter

Barbara Alberti
Screenplay
2 shared titles · The Night Porter
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