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Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller OMRI (14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021), known as Lina Wertmüller (Italian: [ˈliːna vertˈmyller]), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. [1] [2] [3] She is best known for her 1970s art house films Seven Beauties , [4] [5] The Seduction of Mimi , [6] Love and Anarchy , and Swept Away .
Dec 9, 2021 · Lina Wertmüller, who combined sexual warfare and leftist politics in the provocative, genre-defying films “The Seduction of Mimi,” “Swept Away” and “Seven Beauties,” which established ...
Lina Wertmüller (1928-2021) Lina Wertmüller. During the 1970s, Lina Wertmüller emblazoned her name into the pantheon of Italian cinema with a series of intensely polemical, deeply controversial and wonderfully entertaining films. Among the most politically outspoken and iconoclastic members of the second generation of postwar directors - the ...
Lina Wertmüller (born August 14, 1928, Rome, Italy—died December 9, 2021, Rome) was an Italian film director and screenwriter noted for her comedies focusing on the eternal battle of the sexes and on contemporary political and social issues. In 1977 she became the first woman to receive an Academy Award nomination for best director.
Dec 9, 2021 · Lina Wertmüller was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019. Italian film director Lina Wertmüller, the first woman ever to be nominated for an Oscar for best director, has ...
Dec 9, 2021 · Acclaimed filmmaker Lina Wertmuller, posing in 2019 with her honorary Oscar, has died at age 93, according to Italy's Ministry of Culture. Lina Wertmüller, a central figure of Italian cinema and ...
Dec 9, 2021 · Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, the first Oscar-nominated female director, whose work tackled political and social issues, has died. She was 93. The pioneering director died Thursday at her ...
