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Nino Rota has 0 scores in the Nutevio catalogue.

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Nino Rota has 0 scores in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, 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.
Rota 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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Federico Fellini
Director
31 shared titles · Spirits of the Dead

Tullio Pinelli
Screenplay
12 shared titles · The Swindle

Ennio Flaiano
Screenplay
11 shared titles · The Swindle

Francis Ford Coppola
Director
9 shared titles · The Godfather

Giuseppe Rotunno
Director of Photography
7 shared titles · Spirits of the Dead

Dino De Laurentiis
Producer
5 shared titles · Waterloo

Leo Catozzo
Editor
5 shared titles · 8½

Luchino Visconti
Director
5 shared titles · The Leopard

Alain Delon
Actor
4 shared titles · Spirits of the Dead

Giulietta Masina
Actor
4 shared titles · The Swindle

Bernardino Zapponi
Screenplay
4 shared titles · Spirits of the Dead

Otello Martelli
Director of Photography
4 shared titles · The Swindle
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