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Topic: Gian Maria Volonte


  
  Le Cercle rouge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alain Delon, Bourvil, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volonté
It was directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starred Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté and Yves Montand.
Corey (Delon) is a cool, aristocratic thief, released from prison on the same day that Vogel (Volonté), a murderer, escapes from the custody of the patient Mattei (Bourvil), a cat-loving police superintendent.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Le_Cercle_rouge   (228 words)

  
 Movies101.com
Jean-Pierre Melville (née Grumbach, but he took the name of his favorite novelist), born in 1917, was a kind of older brother to the French New Wave.
At the same time another prisoner, Vogel (Gian Maria Volonté), is being transported to Paris by train in the custody of a detective inspector, Mattei (André Bourvil).
Vogel escapes, and comes across Corey; the two now head to Paris together (along the way they pass a roadside monument that says, "In this town Niepce invented photography in 1822." We are, after all, at a movie.).
www.movies101.com /CERCLE.HTML   (694 words)

  
 neumu [ cinematronic ]
Alain Delon, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volonté, André Bourvil
Melville's underworld pros, from the suave, world-weary title character in his landmark "noir wave" caper flick "Bob le Flambeur" to the hardened schemers played by Alain Delon, Yves Montand and Gian Maria Volonté in "Le Cercle Rouge," are some of the most compelling, yet morally ambiguous figures in film.
And "Le Cercle Rouge," lovingly restored by Criterion in a two-DVD set, is a memorable example of the expertise and sensibility that influenced international devotees such as Chinese action-movie kingpin John Woo.
www.neumu.net /cinematronic/dvd/cinema_dvd_00333.shtml   (209 words)

  
 village voice > film > Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion by Elliott Stein
The film is dominated by the mesmerizing performance of Gian Maria Volonté as the chief—he's never given a name.
A militant leftist, Volonté, who got his start portraying heavies in spaghetti westerns and became the major star of Italian political cinema of the 1970s, was an actor of extraordinary presence.
Hardly ever offscreen, he struts through the entire movie—nattily dressed, smirky, charismatic, simultaneously handsome and repellent as Petri's visually flamboyant film turns into a heady mix of Marx, Freud, Wilhelm Reich, and Brecht, with a bit of Dashiell Hammett thrown into the blender.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0314/stein.php   (349 words)

  
 Democrat and Chronicle -- Entertainment -- Rochester, NY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Stars: Yves Montand, Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonte, Andre Bourvil, Francois Perier
Gian Maria Volonte is a just-escaped convict whom Delon befriends on the open road.
The third guy is a disgraced ex-cop (Montand) whom they hire because of his skills as a sharp-shooter.
www.democratandchronicle.com /goesout/mov/r/redcir.shtml   (494 words)

  
 LACMA film: The Films of Elio Petri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sexual fantasies drive his productivity for the company, but his perspective on work and life undergo a radical transformation when he is injured in a factory accident and temporarily laid off.
After two men are killed in a Sicilian town, a lonely professor with no family to protect (played by Petri regular Gian Maria Volonte) takes it upon himself to investigate the crime.
During a crackdown on political dissidents of the day, a psychopathic Roman police inspector (Gian Maria Volonte) slashes the throat of his masochistic mistress (Florinda Bolkan).
www.lacma.org /art/film/0309SeptFilm/petri.htm   (1424 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Porte Aperte : Main
Gian Maria Volonté, Renato Carpentieri, Ennio Fantastichini, Renzo Giovampietro
Volonte tries to remain faithful to the letter of the law, despite the "improvem...
Volonte tries to remain faithful to the letter of the law, despite the "improvements" made by the Fascists.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/25865/moviemain.jhtml   (145 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Le Cercle rouge (1970)
Meanwhile, Vogel (Gian Maria Volonté), a member of Corey's fraternity, is riding the rail with a police escort, Captain Mattei (André Bourvil), but Vogel remains one step ahead of his guardian, and engineers a daring escape from a moving train.
With some, he got along famously—Delon was the Toshiro Mifune to Melville's Kurosawa—and others, like Montand and Bourvil, were rightly famous long before they were cast in a Melville picture; they find just the right tone, and feel completely a part of this world.
Melville's on-set problems with Volonté are voluminously documented in the supplements (see below), but even the Italian actor's work feels as if it's of a piece of the Melvillean whole.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=5420   (1236 words)

  
 Pricenoia.com - Bourvil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Authors: Jean-Pierre Melville; Alain Delon; Bourvil; Gian Maria Volonté
Authors: Jean-Pierre Melville; Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet Paul Amiot
Authors: Jean-Pierre Melville; Alain Delon, Yves Montand, Bourvil Gian Maria Volonte
www.pricenoia.com /search/Bourvil/1/6   (169 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: A Fistful of Dollars (Widescreen/Full Screen)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonté, et al.
Gina Maria Volonte stars as the violent leader of the Rojo family.
The villain, played by Gian-Maria Volontè, is so terrific that Sergio Leone will hire this wonderful italian actor to play the role of Indio, the bad guy of FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE, with the result we all know.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000K0DM   (1094 words)

  
 BBC - Films - review - Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The beautiful, ever-impassive Melville regular Alain Delon plays the recently released prisoner Corey, who teams up with Gian Maria Volonté's fugitive Vogel and Yves Montand's sharp-shooting ex-cop Jansen.
Planning to pull off an elaborate Parisian jewel heist in Place Vendome, the trio of immaculately-dressed gangsters find themselves pursued by a methodical, cat-loving inspector Mattei (Bourvil), who feels a certain kinship with his prey, not least because Jansen was a former classmate at police school.
Stars: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volonté
www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/06/16/le_cercle_rouge_1970_review.shtml   (416 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: A Bullet for the General (Quien sabe?) (1967)
When the train is ambushed by El Chucho (Gian Maria Volonté) and his gang, Tate makes the best of a bad situation and after being christened El Niño, joins the bandits, who are collecting guns for the revolutionary General Elias.
A lengthy section of their adventures follows, but when the bandits hit the village of San Miguel, El Chucho begins to enjoy adulation a little too much, leading to friction amongst the members of the gang.
Volonté is excellent and endearing as the revolutionary hero with feet of clay.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=2940   (937 words)

  
 Bullet For The General, A DVD review - Time Out Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It shares Volonté and Kinski with For a Few Dollars More, and Luis Bacalov's haunting score was 'supervised' by Ennio Morricone, but the politics are more radical than anything Leone stood for (it ends with a ringing call to arms: 'Don't buy bread, buy dynamite!').
Lou Castel plays a tight-lipped gringo who insinuates himself into Volonté's gang of Mexican bandits on the fringes of the revolution.
The film charts the peculiar friendship between these two blinkered mercenaries, and Volonté's belated arrival at a political consciousness.
www.timeout.com /film/dvd.php?id=95879&redirect=true   (193 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Gian Maria Volonté : Biography
He gained worldwide prominence with his apolitical performances in such spaghetti westerns as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965), then increasingly wore his left-leaning heart on his sleeve in the films of such like-minded directors as Elio Petri and Francesco Rosi.
He played the police inspector in Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), and was seen in the Rosi-directed Lucky Luciano (1973) in the title role, and in Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) as famed antifascist author Carlo Levi.
Shortly before his death at the age of 61, Volonté appeared in Banderas the Tyrant (1994).
www.vh1.com /movies/person/64918/bio.jhtml   (175 words)

  
 For a Few Dollars More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The infamous bandit Indio (Gian Maria Volonté), is busted out of prison and 10 grand is placed on his head the two bounty hunters set out to catch Indio.
This time around Leone would put together a solid cast of veteran character actors Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté, Klaus Kinski and with more time and money then he had before he would craft, For a Few Dollars More what is arguably the best film in The Man With no Name Trilogy.
Clint Eastwood and Gian Maria Volonté are both carry over from a Fistful of dollars and are essentially playing the same parts only they are more comfortable in their roles this time.
www.10kbullets.com /reviews/forafewdollarsmore.htm   (901 words)

  
 Intelliflix: Rent Bullet For The General, A on DVD
Martine Beswick, Lou Castel, Klaus Kinski, Gian Maria Volonte
At the height of the Mexian Revolution, a mysterious young American (Lou Castel of Fist In His Pocket) joins a gang of marauders led by El Chucho (Gian Maria Volonte of A Fistful Of Dollars) on a series of savage raids to steal guns for a powerful rebel general.
But when the Gringo brings his own cold-blooded ideals to the bandits, El Chucho discovers that the real weapons of war belong to no army.
www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=8458   (286 words)

  
 The Death of Mario Ricci (La Mort de Mario Ricci) Film Review - Time Out Film
A crippled TV journalist (Volonté) arrives in a Swiss village to interview a specialist in world food shortages disillusioned by the non-application of his theories.
Goretta counterpoints his two stories with deft assurance, letting them strike subdued ironies off one another; there are thematic strands galore here, clearly signposted but seemingly left deliberately smudged.
Yet there is no shortage of delights either: fine atmospherics, immaculately fluid camerawork, and a towering performance from Volonté, sympathy and disdain flickering back and forth across those marvellously expressive features.
www.timeout.com /film/65159.html   (228 words)

  
 Gian Maria Volonte, actresss (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61 December 6 in History
Gian Maria Volonte, actresss (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61 December 6 in History
Gian Maria Volonte, actresss (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61
I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember.
www.brainyhistory.com /events/1994/december_6_1994_171174.html   (47 words)

  
 French Culture | Cinema | Jean-Pierre Melville: Le cercle rouge (1970) / Criterion DVD Oct. 28, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Taciturn thief Alain Delon (intense and dapper in trenchcoat and fedora) and escaped prisoner Gian Maria Volonte cross paths as if by fate, bound by saving each other's life, and join with disgraced ex-cop Yves Montand for their next job: a daring jewel robbery.
Le Cercle Rouge is the ultimate expression of the romantic doom that Jean-Pierre Melville established in his masterpieces Bob Le Flambeur and Le Samourai.
Three depressed French gangsters (Alain Delon, Yves Montand and Gian Maria Volonté) pull off a perfect jewel robbery but, existentialists that they are, realize it will probably lead to little more than a bullet in the back.
www.frenchculture.org /cinema/releases/melville/cerclerougedvd.html   (534 words)

  
 The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts: Volonté, Gian Maria (1933-1994)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In Italy he was active in left-wing politics and gave commanding performances in a succession of films with political themes.
Volont was born in Milan and studied at Rome's National School of Dramatic Art.
He made his stage debut in 1957, going on to play a wide range of roles and to make his first film 1960.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1P1:28927577&refid=ink_tptd_bk   (209 words)

  
 Clint Eastwood - A Fistful of Film Music
The music from the final showdown between Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) and Indio (Gian Maria Volonte).
You'll recall this little gem of a tune which is heard after the big bank robbery scene as Indio (Gian Maria Volonte) and his gang are riding on horse back, the Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood) pursues.
This music accompanies the scene right after the big gundown against Indio (Gian Maria Volonte) at the end of the film, when Colonel Mortimer's (Lee Van Cleef) secret is revealed.
www.clinteastwood.net /filmmusic_1.html   (637 words)

  
 Le Cercle Rouge (1970): Alain Delon, André Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté - PopMatters Film Review
Inspector Mattei (André Bourvil) escorts Vogel (Gian Maria Volonté) to prison by train, but the criminal escapes.
Another thief, Corey (Alain Delon), is released from incarceration, but not before being informed by a guard of the opportunity to participate in a jewelry robbery.
Bourvil was the premiere French comedian of the time, and Volonté starred in many politically salient Italian films.
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/cercle-rouge.shtml   (1277 words)

  
 [Videonews] **CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI**New Release from Facets Video*******   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI, director Francesco Rosi’s stunning adaptation of Carlo Levi’s novel, Gian Maria Volonte (FISTFUL OF DOLLARS; FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE) stars as Levi, one of many intellectuals exiled by the Fascist government during World War II.
Banished to Gagliano, an ancient mountain village in southern Italy, Volonte discovers the stark beauty of the landscape as well as the resilience of the peasants, who have lived there for generations.
Starring Gian Maria Volonte, Alain Cuny, Irene Papas, Lea Massari, and Paolo Bonacelli.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /pipermail/videonews/2003-August/000205.html   (330 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - Gian Maria Volonté   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Milan-born actor/political activist Gian Maria Volonté was trained at the Academia Nazionale de Arti Drammatica.
Volonté's first film appearance was in the internationally produced...
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www.mtv.com /movies/person/64918/personmain.jhtml   (70 words)

  
 For A Few Dollars More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gian Maria Volonte returned as well to play the mad outlaw, Indio.
Veteran Western Actor, Lee Van Cleef joins the cast as Colonel Mortimer, a bounty killer on a personal mission of revenge.
This is one of the rare sequels that is far better than the original and is a must see for all Western fans.
members.aol.com /WriterR5/fewdollarsmore.html   (310 words)

  
 AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Police inspector Gian Maria Volonté (LE CERCLE ROUGE; the bad guy in FISTFUL OF DOLLARS and A FEW DOLLARS MORE) murders his mistress-then gets tapped to head the investigation.
Factory worker Gian Maria Volonté continually tops his already-record output.
Star-packed (Mariangela Melato, Michel Piccoli, Renato Salvatore) adaptation of Leonardo Sciascia's novel was banned reportedly for its admitted caricature of Italian leader Aldo Moro-(later kidnapped and murdered by the Red Brigades).
afi.com /silver/new/nowplaying/2004/v1i13/eliopetriseries.aspx   (1045 words)

  
 For a Few Dollars More Comprehensive Movie Review
Then there is Indio (Gian Maria Volonte), a bank robber who is sprung from prison by his men, killing his cellmate on the way out.
Manco (CLint EAstwood) and Colonel Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) are Bounty Hunters on the trail of a gang of robber led by Gian Maria Volante.
Eventually, they join forces, and plot to recapture the money stolen from the bank of el paso, kill the gang,and gain their bounty.
www.allwatchers.com /Topics/Info_6511.asp   (1306 words)

  
 Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources:
Actas de Marusia un film, Gian Maria Volontè et al., 1 videocassette (90 min.), Wilmington?
Notes: Performer Note: Gian Maria Volonte, Diana Bracho, Claudio Obregon, Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Jose Carlos Ruiz
Abstract: "The chronicle of the repression exercised by an English Company over a small Chilean town whose inhabitants are determined to win the minimal human rights due to them as workers and citizens."--External container.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/latinam/videos/about_chile.html   (1814 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Le Cercle Rouge: The Criterion Collection
Uninterested, he gets out of the slam only to find his girlfriend living with his old boss.
At the same time Vogel (Gian Maria Volonte) escapes from a train while handcuffed to police inspector Mattei (Andre Bourvil), and a manhunt erupts.
As Corey tries to avoid the conflict he created, Vogel hides himself in Corey's trunk.
dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/c/cerclerouge_cc.q.shtml   (677 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - For a Few Dollars More -- Sergio Leone - DVD - Wide Screen / Dolby 5.1 / Mono
Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal bandit Indio (Gian Maria Volonte).
Both the Eastwood and Van Cleef characters are given understandable motivations for their bloodletting tendencies, something that was lacking in A Fistful of Dollars.
This second installment comes close to equaling “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.” In fact the casting is even a bit better with the addition of Gian Maria Volonte’s portrayal of an insane bank robber.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=27616627124&userid=692mxLYA03&frm=0&itm=2   (584 words)

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