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Mario Landi

{{Short description|Italian director (1920–1992)}}

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| image = Mario Landi.jpg

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| caption = Landi in 1973

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1920|10|12}}

| birth_place = Messina, Italy

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1992|3|18|1920|10|12}}

| death_place = Rome, Italy

| other_names =

| occupation = Director

| known_for = Le inchieste del commissario Maigret

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Mario Landi (12 October 1920 – 18 March 1992) was an Italian director known for his giallo movies such as Giallo a Venezia and his television series Le inchieste del commissario Maigret.{{cite book|last=Louis|first=Paul|title=Italian Horror Film Directors|year=2004|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=0786418346|page=1979|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRA3AAAAQBAJ&q=%22Giallo+a+Venezia%22&pg=RA6-PA1979}}

Life and career

Born on 12 October 1920, in Messina, Landi attended the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome, graduating in direction in 1944.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}} He began his career in theater, working with the best actors of his time, in particular being one of the most active protagonists of the "Diogene" cultural circle in Milan, a reference point for the Italian theater in the 1950s.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}} He made his debut as a film director in 1950, with the musical film Canzoni per le strade, but soon his interests shifted to the new medium of his era, the television;{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}} he is regarded as a pioneer of Italian television, for which he worked since 1952, when RAI started experimental broadcasting before starting the regular TV service.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. Enciclopedia della Televisione. Garzanti, 1996 – 2003. {{ISBN|881150466X}}. From 1955 to 1979, he directed a very large number of television movies and series, occasionally directing a few variety shows, including an edition of Canzonissima.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. Enciclopedia della Televisione. Garzanti, 1996 – 2003. {{ISBN|881150466X}}. He was less active in cinema, in which he sporadically directed a number of low-profile genre films.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Poppi|title=I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri|year=2002|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2002|isbn=8884401712}}

Reception

The films of Mario Landi were not well received. Paolo Mereghetti, author of Il Mereghetti, wrote of Maigret a Pigalle: "the direction is slovenly",{{cite book|last=Mereghetti|first=Paolo|title=Il Mereghetti: Dizionario dei Film 2004|year=2003|publisher=Baldini Castoldi Dalai|location=Milano|isbn=88-8490-419-6|quote = la regia è sciatta.|volume= Le schede|page=1357}} while of Giallo a Venezia he wrote that it:{{cite book|last=Mereghetti|first=Paolo|title=Il Mereghetti: Dizionario dei Film 2004|year=2003|publisher=Baldini Castoldi Dalai|location=Milano|isbn=88-8490-419-6|quote = merita di essere ricordato (o forse non lo merita) come uno dei thriller italiani più cretini mai realizzati, collage di sequenze porno-soft e di squartamenti di rara efferatezza che cascano nel vuoto, nel puerile tentativo di stupire.|volume= Le schede|page=987}} {{blockquote|"deserves (or perhaps does not deserve) to be remembered as one of the most idiotic Italian thrillers ever made, a collage of soft-porn sequences and dismemberments of rare brutality that fall into the void, in a childish attempt to astonish."}}

Filmography

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Category:1992 deaths

Category:1920 births

Category:Italian television directors

Category:Italian horror film directors

Category:People from Messina

Category:Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni

Category:Giallo film directors

Category:Film people from the Metropolitan City of Messina