Gian L. Polidoro Movies
Italian Independent filmmaker Gian Polidoro directed over 20 films in both his homeland and stateside, winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for Il Diavolo in 1963. His 1993 TV feature, C'est Quoi Ces Petits Buolots? (What Are These Little Jobs?) became a miniseries, and Polidoro also received a silver ribbon for his short film, Paese d'America, in 1959. One of his few U.S. features was the 1981 comedy Rent Control. Polidoro died September 4, 2000, of injuries resulting from an auto accident. He was 71. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi- 1988
Sotto Zero may well be the best-ever Italian film made in Norway (if you know of another one, let us know). Jerry Cala plays an Italian laborer who takes a job on a Norwegian oil rig. He is unprepared for the cold weather, and has a bit of difficulty communicating with his co-workers--well, more than a little, since he knows not one word of their language. But the money is good, and things get better when another Italian joins the crew and befriends Our Hero. The US title for this made-for-Italian-TV film is Below Zero. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1981
Future Star Trek: The Next Generation star Brent Spiner probably doesn't include Rent Control on his current resume. Spiner plays a super-neurotic writer who goes to great and absurd lengths to win back his ex-wife. Elizabeth Stack, daughter of Robert, is the lady in question. Rent Control wants to be a Woody Allen movie, but director Gian L. Polidaro is not in the same angst-ridden league as Allen. Filmed in 1981, Rent Control didn't find a distributor until three years later. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Brent Spiner, Annie Korzen, (more)
- 1974
In this black comedy, a struggling actor-playwright goes on tour with a play he wrote for himself and his lover. It is about the life and love between Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petracci, his mistress. When his show travels to Italy it meets with a very negative response from the local Communists who throw tomatoes at them. To get them to stop, the actor changes their minds by placing emphasis on the romance between the two rather than the politics. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ugo Tognazzi, Bernadette Lafont, (more)
- 1965
Ugo Tagnazzi and Rhonda Fleming co-star in this situation comedy that spoofs the lifestyles of wealthy American women. Ricardo (Tognazzi) is a teacher who accompanies an American businessman to act as an interpreter. Soon he is off on a series of adventures that brings him into the jet-set social life of the idle rich females of New York, Miami, and Texas. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ugo Tognazzi, Rhonda Fleming, (more)
- 1963
Alberto Sordi pulls off another great comic role as Amadeo Ferretti, an Italian businessman who is traveling through Sweden in this entertaining comedy by Gian Luigi Polidoro. Amadeo is the quintessential Latin man who is quite taken with the blond beauties he sees on the streets around him. His attitudes and assumptions, his characteristics and defining qualities are contrasted with the nature of the Swedes and by extension, other citizens of Europe's colder climates. It is this underlying depth that adds considerable interest to the comic situations, and which garnered the director and his cast and crew a "Best Film" award from the 1963 Berlin Film Fest, and in that same year, a "Best Foreign Film" award from the New York Film Critics' Circle. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alberto Sordi
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