Top Italian cinema critic
Gian Luigi Rondi died at his home in Rome overnight, ANSA
sources said on Thursday. Born in December 1921 in the northern
town of Tirano, he started out in 1946 with a column in daily
newspaper Il Tempo. He had spells as director and president of
the Venice Film Festival and was also chief of the Rome Film
Festival Foundation from 2008 to 2012. He was president of David
di Donatello awards, Italy's equivalent of the Oscars, too.
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