Domenico Meccoli Explained

Domenico Meccoli
Birth Date:4 January 1913
Birth Place:Assisi, Italy
Death Place:Rome, Italy
Occupation:Film critic, journalist, screenwriter, actor

Domenico Meccoli (4 January 1913  - 21 November 1983) was an Italian film critic, journalist, screenwriter and occasional actor. Born in Assisi, Meccoli started his career as a journalist and a film critic for the magazine Cinema, and later for several decades he was film critic and chief editor of the magazine Epoca.[1]

He wrote for nine films between 1939 and 1954. He was a member of the jury at the 16th Venice International Film Festival in 1955,[2] at the 9th Cannes Film Festival in 1956[3] and at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival in 1968.[4] In 1961 and 1962 he served as artistic director of the Venice Film Festival.

Selected filmography

Notes and References

  1. News: Morto Meccoli, fu direttore del Festival di Venezia. La Stampa. 276. 22 November 1983.
  2. Book: Enzo Di Martino. The history of the Venice Biennale: 1895- 2005 : visual arts, architecture, cinema, dance, music, theatre. 2005. Papiro Arte, 2005. 8890110449.
  3. Web site: Festival Cannes: Juries . 1 March 2010 . festival-cannes . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120208092548/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/1956/juryLongFilm.html . 8 February 2012 .
  4. Web site: Berlinale 1968: Juries . 1 March 2010 . berlinale.de.