Luciano Tovoli

{{Short description|Italian cinematographer}}

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| name = Luciano Tovoli

| image = Luciano Tovoli.JPG

| caption = Tovoli at the Manaki Brothers Film Festival in Bitola, North Macedonia, September 2012

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1936|10|30|df=y}}

| birth_place = Massa Marittima, Province of Grosseto, Kingdom of Italy

| nationality = Italian

| education = {{ubl|University of Pisa|Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia}}

| occupation = {{hlist|Cinematographer|film director|film producer|screenwriter}}

| years_active = 1961–present

| organization = {{ubl

| American Society of Cinematographers (ASC)

| Italian Society of Cinematographic Photography Authors (AIC)

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Luciano Tovoli {{post-nominal styles|post-noms=ASC AIC}}{{cite web |title=Brief Interviews with ASC members |url=https://theasc.com/ac_magazine/December2011/ASCClose-Up/page1.html |publisher=American Society of Cinematographers |magazine=American Cinematographer |date=December 2011 |accessdate=August 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816144522/https://theasc.com/ac_magazine/December2011/ASCClose-Up/page1.html |archive-date=August 16, 2018 |url-status=live}} ({{IPA|it|luˈtʃaːno ˈtoːvoli}}; born 30 October 1936) is an Italian cinematographer and filmmaker. With a career spanning over five decades, he is considered one of Italy's premier cinematographers, collaborating with numerous acclaimed filmmakers such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Francis Veber, Dario Argento, Ettore Scola, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Julie Taymor.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/tovoli.htm|title=LUCIANO TOVOLI|website=www.cinematographers.nl|access-date=2018-12-10}}{{Cite web|url=https://ascmag.com/articles/suspiria-terror-in-technicolor|title=Suspiria: Terror in Technicolor - The American Society of Cinematographers|website=ascmag.com|access-date=2018-12-10}}

Films that Tovoli has photographed include The Passenger (1975), Suspiria (1977), Titus (1999).{{Cite web|url=http://www.artdigiland.com/english/on-suspiria-and-beyond-a-conversation-with-cinematographer-luciano-tovoli|title=On Suspiria and Beyond: A Conversation with Cinematographer Luciano Tovoli|website=Artdigiland|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-10}}{{Cite web|url=https://theasc.com/news/luciano-tovoli-asc-aic-joins-restoration-of-fright-classic-suspiria|title=Luciano Tovoli, ASC, AIC Joins Restoration of Fright Classic Suspiria - The American Society of Cinematographers|website=theasc.com|access-date=2018-12-10}} He has been a longtime collaborator of Barbet Schroeder, having worked with the Iranian-born filmmaker's Reversal of Fortune (1990), Single White Female (1992), Before and After (1996), Murder by Numbers (2002), and Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008).{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/artist/luciano-tovoli|title=Luciano TOVOLI|website=Festival de Cannes 2018|language=en|access-date=2018-12-10}} He is a member of the American, Italian Society of Cinematographers, and an honorary member of the Swedish Society of Cinematographers and the European Federation of Cinematographers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imago.org/|title=Imago|website=www.imago.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-12-10}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.imago.org/index.php/news/item/706-on-suspiria-and-beyond-luciano-tovoli.html|title="On Suspiria and Beyond" Luciano Tovoli|website=www.imago.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-12-10}}

In 1983, Tovoli directed and cowrote Il Generale dell'armata morte based on a novel by Ismail Kadare, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anouk Aimée.