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daniela

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About Me

I'm a film journalist in Italy, a single parent of a 7 years old daughter , and I have a wonderful fiancé who unfortunately lives in Far Far Away Land like Shrek, and he's sweet and tender like him but handsomer! I'm from Lucca but I live in Rome since 1990. I'm working since 1999 for a satellite tv channel about movies (Coming Soon Television) and I published 4 books: Ciak si trema Guida al cinema horror (Theoria 1996, second edition Costa & Nolan 2007), Friedkin. Il brivido dell'ambiguità (Transeuropa, 1997) -the first Italian essay on his films, and he was very proud of it -, L'esorcista 25 anni dopo (Puntozero 1999) and, together with Danilo Arona , L'esorcista, il cinema, il mito (Falsopiano 2003).
I also contributed to books on David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Wes Craven, Mel Gibson, Christopher Lee, Tobe Hooper, and I've been a contributor and/or an editor to the following magazines: Segnocinema, Duel, Horrormania, X-Files, and to the webzines: It, Halcinema, RevisionCinema. I also do radio sometimes. I worked for some years at the Noir in Festival of Courmayeur. Of all the things I've done in this field, I'm mostly proud of my Friedkin book, and of the contributions (translations and interviews) done on account of my friend Tim Lucas for his masterful opus on Mario Bava , more than 30 years in the making!

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I would like to meet creative and positive people like myself and my friends, especially writers and directors but also people passionate in general in what they do. That's the attitudine that I like and can relate to.

My Blog

Roberto Benigni Canta "L'italia & Berlusconi"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug6FKdOakoI
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:11:00 GMT

So Long, Number 6

I was just a teenager when I happened to stumble - in the then watchable Italian television - in a wonderful, strange and passionating telefilm (they were called so then, no one had ever heard of film...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:55:00 GMT

BILLY FRIEDKINS BIRTHDAY TOMORROW!!

I know I may sound like Schroeder or better Lucy Van Pelt when she starts going around with signs announcing the approaching Beethoven's birthday, but I can't help to write a few things about this gre...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:52:00 GMT

In memory of Enzo G. Baldoni

Hi, I generally don't like blogs, so I don't want to start one myself. Anyway, I couldn't write today some words on Enzo G. Baldoni, an Italian journalist and man of peace, kidnapped and killed in Ir...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:52:00 GMT