Gianni Canova

Acting

Gianni Canova

Born 1954-02-16 · Castione della Presolana, Lombardia, Italy

Gianni Canova is one of Italy's most important and famous film critics. He's known for creating and directing film magazines like "Duel" and "Duellanti". He wrote cinema essays for a number of journals like Rolling Stone, Vogue, Segnocinema, Corriere della Sera, La Voce, Il Sole 24 Ore. He worked in television on MTV, Telepiù, Netsystem, My-TV and he's a TV host for Sky Cinema. Meanwhile he's a professor of cinema at IULM University both in the bachelor's degrees and the master's degrees, since 2018 he's also the dean of the university. In the past he taught cinema at "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia" and Università Bocconi. He's also part of the council of MiBACT (italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities) and from 2002 to 2014 he was the curator of several multi-medial exhibitions, mostly at the "Triennale di Milano".

Acting credits

Istintobrass poster
5.3

One of the most controversial, original and loved figures of Italian cinema. The most censored director of all time. An anarchist of the film, a gifted experimenter, an inventor of dreams. A truly great artist.

Istintobrass

2013

Scerbanenco Noir poster
NR

A short documentary exploring the life and work of writer Giorgio Scerbanenco.

Scerbanenco Noir

2004

Goodbye Marilyn poster
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Marilyn Monroe didn't leave us in the summer of '62. She decided to disappear from the scene and has been living far from her fans for fifty years, until the day that a letter convinces her to give one final interview...

Goodbye Marilyn

2018

Attitudini: Nessuna poster
7.3

A nostalgic journey with Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo, retracing thirty years of friendship and success in the world of Italian comedy, including personal memories and unforgettable moments that made them icons of laughter.

Attitudini: Nessuna

2025

Those I met may not have seen me poster
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A documentary about a recently discovered photograph that might picture the poet Arthur Rimbaud.

Those I met may not have seen me

2016

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage poster
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Sergio Castellitto's narration traces the history of 3D cinema, which began with cinema itself, through films from the early 1900s such as "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat" by the Lumière brothers, to the great titles of the 1950s such as Alfred Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder" and "The Creature from the Black Lagoon."

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

2016

La visione romantica poster
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La visione romantica

2014

Burning Love poster
5.7

July 2006. Leonardo Zuliani has vanished. The news from Trastevere in Rome turns into a real national emergency, while a huge throng of followers gathers around the young activist’s house. His mother is beside herself with grief and the entire neighbourhood is paralysed. He’s on every TV channel and the authorities all express their solidarity with the family. Many can’t believe it’s true; they prefer to think it’s just one of his stunts. A genius in conveying his ideas, successful cartoonist, visionary fashion designer, cult author, human rights activist: but who is Leonardo deep down? With the help of leading experts and celebrities, the film traces his life, at last casting light on a key figure of our times

Burning Love

2015

About Max poster
8.0

The intimate and passionate portrait of the late Max Croci in a documentary that recalls the human and cultural depth with the testimonies of friends and colleagues.

About Max

2019

The Day of the Two Holy Popes poster
NR

"History is not just what you read in books, history often reveals itself with its extraordinary scope, already in the present. This is the case when on April 27 2014, the canonization of the greatest Popes of the 20th century was celebrated". With these words, the unmistakable voice of Giancarlo Giannini introduces us to an intimate and emotional story of what was, in all respects, a historical event: the Canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, director of the Vatican Television Center, holds the reins of the narrative which, among historical and exclusive images, leads to a closer understanding of the two Holy Popes and Pope Francis, and to discover places in the Vatican never seen before. Alongside him are the authoritative opinions of Pupi Avati, Aldo Grasso and Gianni Canova and a moving and emotional Dario Fo. A Vatican Television Center and Sky 3D production.

The Day of the Two Holy Popes

2015

27 aprile Racconto di un evento poster
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The documentary starts from the sanctification of Pope Giovanni XXIII and Pope Giovanni Paolo II and tells the scenes on the figures of the two saints and popes of Pope Francesco I, with a stock image of three Popes enriched with new images of Pope Francesco I at the time of his election before it is presented to the whole world. A journey through exclusive places and partly unpublished Vatican.

27 aprile Racconto di un evento

2014

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For at least three generations of viewers, cinema has been like life: a motive for work, relationships, conflict, politics, and pleasure. The documentary, based on original interviews with critics active between the 1950s and the present day, evokes the places, rituals, professional routines, gender relations, and polemical and social dimensions of Italian film criticism. Not only a profession, but above all a discovery of the world through films, yesterday as today.

Like Life - Private Stories of Italian Film Critics

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