Mario Sesti
- Director
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Mario Sesti (born 1958), has worked as specialist in film restoration
of Italian postwar cinema, as film critic for Italian news-magazines
and newspapers, as film programmer for TV network. He realized and
directed films about Pietro Germi, Federico Fellini and the restoration
process, which was shown at MoMA, at the Festival of Cannes and at the
Locarno Film Festival. His publications include essays and monographs
on Fritz Lang, Nanni Moretti, Jane Campion, and the detective movie. In
1997, his Tutto il cinema di Pietro Germi (The Complete Films of Pietro
Germi) won in Italy the Award of Cinema Book of the Year. His work has
been translated into English, French, German and Portuguese. As author
and cinema scholar he visited Princeton University, University of
Washington, American Academy in Rome. As Artistic Director, he worked
at Rome Film Festival meeting on a stage in front of thousands of
people very important directors and actors like Martin Scorsese,
Michael Mann, Coen brothers, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Francis Coppola,
Jim Jarmush, Arthur Penn, Olivier Assayas, Tim Burton, David Lynch,
Jane Fonda, Michael Cimino, Spike Lee, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Connery
and many others. Criterion selected severals documentary films made by
him to be included in Dud version of films directed by Pietro Germi and
Pier Paolo Pasolini.
