Nino Rota (1911 - 1979)

Italian composer, pianist, and conductor who is best known for his film scores

* December 3, 1911 Milan, Lombardy, Italy
 as Giovanni Rota Rinaldi
 April 10, 1979 Rome, Italy


Books on Nino Rota

Richard Dyer
Nino Rota, Music, film, and feeling
New York, 2010

Books with substantial mentioning of Nino Rota

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.) International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 4. Writers and Production Artists
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Books with an entry on Nino Rota

Larry Langman Destination Hollywood Larry Langman
Destination Hollywood, The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2000

Articles on Nino Rota

Richard Dyer, The talented Mr Rota, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 9, 2004 pp. 42-45

Films

1947
Vivere in pace

1948
Anni difficili
Proibito rubare
Senza pietà

1949
Obsession
The Glass Mountain

1951
Anna
Peppino e Violetta
Valley of Eagles

1952
La regina di Saba

1953
Boulanger de Valorgue, Le
I vitelloni

1954
Star of India
La strada

1955
Il bidone
La grande speranza

1956
War and Peace

1957
Il medico e lo stregone
Il momento più bello
This Angry Age
Le notti di Cabiria

1958
Fortunella

1960
Rocco e i suoi fratelli
La dolce vita
Sotto dieci bandiere

1963
8 1/2
Il Gattopardo

1965
Giulietta degli spiriti

1967
The Taming of the Shrew

1968
Romeo and Juliet

1969
Fellini - Satyricon

1970
Waterloo

1972
The Godfather

1973
Amarcord
Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero 'stamattina alle 10 in via dei Fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza...'

1974
The Godfather: Part 2
The Abdication

1976
Il Casanova di Federico Fellini

1978
Death on the Nile
Prova d'orchestra

1979
Hurricane

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