Dante Ferretti

Dante Ferretti

Born: February 26, 1943
in Macerata, Marche, Italy
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Dante Ferretti (Italian pronunciation: [ˌdante ferˈretti], born 26 February 1943) is an Italian production designer, art director and costume designer.

Throughout his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and Italian, including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Anthony Minghella, and Tim Burton. He frequently collaborates with his wife, set decorator Francesca Lo Schiavo.

Ferretti was a protégé of Federico Fellini, and worked under him for five films. He also had a five-film collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini and later developed a very close professional relationship with Martin Scorsese, designing seven of his last eight movies.

In 2008, he designed the set for Howard Shore's opera The Fly, directed by David Cronenberg, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.

Ferretti has won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction; for The Aviator, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Hugo. He had seven previous nominations. In addition, he was nominated for Best Costume Design for Kundun. He has also won three BAFTA Awards.

In 2012, he designed the decor for Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto, a restaurant on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

For the 2015 Expo held in Milan, Italy Ferretti was commissioned to do a series of statues articulating the concept ""Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life".

He is member of the Italy-USA Foundation.

 

Movies for Dante Ferretti...

Fellini Forward
Title: Fellini Forward
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 2021
Type: Movie
Investigating the last years of the famous filmmaker in Rome, combining the history of Italian cinema with new production techniques and going behind the scenes on the filmmaking process.
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Fellinopolis
Title: Fellinopolis
Character: Self - Production Designer
Released: June 10, 2021
Type: Movie
Ferruccio Castronuovo was the only authorized eye, between 1976 and 1986, to film the brilliant Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (1920-1993) in his personal and creative intimacy, to capture the gears of his great circus, his fantastic lies and his crazy inventions.
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Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Title: Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Character: Self
Released: May 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his studies to become a veterinarian, choosing instead to concern himself principally with the human animal, in our corporeal and yearning essence.
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The Isle of Medea
Title: The Isle of Medea
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 2016
Type: Movie
On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen before from Pier Paolo Pasolini's film MEDEA, this film celebrates the genius and sensibility of two icons of the XX century.
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Pasolini maestro corsaro
Title: Pasolini maestro corsaro
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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Sur les traces de Fellini
Title: Sur les traces de Fellini
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
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Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Title: Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Character: Self
Released: February 28, 2012
Type: Movie
The cast and crew of "Hugo" discuss the process of adapting the book to screen, the work of director Martin Scorsese, the story's themes, the origins of the book, casting, costuming, adding the dogs to the cast, working with 3D and its benefits for the film, set design and special effects and more.
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Handmade Cinema
Title: Handmade Cinema
Character: Se stesso
Released: February 1, 2012
Type: Movie
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Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Title: Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 2010
Type: Movie
The Documentary Dante Ferretti – Production Designer retraces the life and the career of Dante Ferretti, the famous Italian Artist and Production Designer.
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Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
Title: Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
Character: Self
Released: June 8, 2010
Type: Movie
This thoughtful, often fascinating featurette focuses on the psychiatric aspects of "Shutter Island" and how consultant James Gilligan counseled the actors so they could better understand their reactions and motivations. We also learn about the controversial yet prevalent practice of lobotomizing violent mental patients and how the more humane approach of pharma-psychology gradually replaced it around the time period in which the story takes place.
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Valentino: The Last Emperor
Title: Valentino: The Last Emperor
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 2008
Type: Movie
Film which travels inside the singular world of one of Italy's most famous fashion designers, Valentino Garavani, documenting the colourful and dramatic closing act of his celebrated career and capturing the end of an era in global fashion. However, at the heart of the film is a love story - the unique relationship between Valentino and his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo Giammetti. Capturing intimate moments in the lives of two of Italy's richest and most famous men, the film lifts the curtain on the final act of a nearly 50-year reign at the top of the glamorous and fiercely competitive world of fashion. (Storyville)
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The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
Title: The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
Character: Self - Production Designer
Released: April 8, 2008
Type: Movie
This is an all new feature length documentary, with interviews from almost everyone involved with the production of the film. Gilliam never shies away from the truth, even when it comes to himself, and so this documentary is self-effacing and refreshingly frank. The documentary details not only the battles Gilliam had with Columbia in getting the film finished and released, but also the imagination and innovation that went into the production.
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Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Title: Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.
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Medea: On-Set Memories
Title: Medea: On-Set Memories
Released: December 31, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary on the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's MEDEA (1969) features rare behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast and crew.
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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Title: Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Character: Self - Chef décorateur
Released: April 2, 2003
Type: Movie
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "availability." His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.
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In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
Title: In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
Character: Self
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: Movie
In Search of Kundun, a “making-of” documentary that is so much more, follows Scorsese as he plans his epic film and shoots in Morocco, and continues on to an audience with the Dalai Lama himself in the foothills of the Himalayas. Edited from over a hundred hours of footage, the documentary captures Scorsese’s fervor as a filmmaker and a man, the modest yet charismatic Dalai Lama, and the plight of the exiled Tibetans. -Denver Film Society
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Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Title: Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of director Martin Scorsese's 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence. It features a conversation between Scorsese and the star of the film, Daniel Day Lewis, as well as rare behind-the-scenes footage.
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La rosa dei nomi
Title: La rosa dei nomi
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Title: The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 1986
Type: Movie
A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey.
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Mora
Title: Mora
Character: Propriétaire
Released: December 29, 1982
Type: Movie
A reporter travelling to Latin America witnesses a murder through the lens of his camera.
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Ciao, Federico!
Title: Ciao, Federico!
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1970
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV