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Tatti Sanguineti

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Born in Savona in 1946, Tatti Sanguineti is a graduate in classical philology and cineaste by training, who has lived and worked in Milan since 1973. He has contributed to La Repubblica, Panorama and Europeo.
His column I film della settimana, published in Panorama for a decade, was the first historical-critical cinema and television column in Italy to appear in a mass-circulation weekly news magazine. He worked as organiser, promoter and selector for the Cineclub Brera (1974-1979), for the Venice International Film Festival (1980-1984) and the "Incontri Cinematografici" of Salsomaggiore (1980-1984). In Cervia in 1984 he created and organised the first international meeting dedicated to music video in Italy. From 1991 to 1994 he worked on the cinema section of the Taormina Festival, directed by Enrico Ghezzi; organising retrospectives and special events. As a historian of Italian cinema, he was involved in organising the retrospectives of Matarazzo (Savona, 1977), Gli Uomini forti (Milan, 1983) and Lux film (Locarno, 1985). His contribution included publishing the documentation on these events.
As a director he has worked for the Italian public service broadcaster RAI, making Luis Buņuel (RAI2, 1980, in the series Uomini e idee del Novecento, with A. Farassino) and, for RAI 3, Walter Chiari: storia di un altro italiano, a programme in seven parts. From 1986 to 1993 he worked almost continuously for RAI 3 (Fuori orario, first series with Enrico Ghezzi, Vā pensiero, first and second series and Fluff). Since 1989 he has been co-author of programmes by Piero Chiambretti (Prove tecniche di trasmissione, Prove tecniche di Mundiāl, Goodbye Cortina, Il portalettere, TgZero, two specials on the Venice Film Festival, and has been a guest on Fantastico, Miss Italia and other programmes).
He published a diary based on Il portalettere for the publisher Rizzoli. In 1993, during the production of Servizi segreti (which was cut after a few editions), he ended his collaboration with Piero Chiambretti and, as he himself has written: "because of this was subjected to retaliation and blacklisting". In 1989, as an independent producer he self-financed, Il caso Salvi, an all-star docudrama of Lombardy humour, covering everything from the Inter-Milan football derby to Fininvest, which, due to a dispute with Fininvest, never went on the air. In the 1994-1995 season he presented, sometimes with David Grieco, 130 editions of the cinema review Hollywood Party for RadioTre. In 1996 he wrote and rewrote a low-budget docudrama for RAI3: Interset by Gilberto Squizzato, stories from cyberspace. Due to irreconcilable differences of opinion with the director he withdrew his name and his participation as an actor from the production. In the winter of 1997 he created and wrote, with Marco Giusti, RAI2's prime-time variety show, Caro Carosello presented by Ambra Angiolini. The programme turned out to be a massive flop. Since 1997 he has presented a nostalgic weekly talk show, Il Club, for the satellite pay-TV channel Cinč-Classics. In 1998, he returned to his previous profession of historian of the Italian cinema as consultant for the Cineteca Comunale in Bologna, publishing the research: L'Anonimo Pittaluga, tracce carte miti.
He still has many more unpublished writings and many months of work ahead on the history of the Societā Anonima Stefano Pittaluga. In 1998, again for the Cineteca di Bologna, he produced two anthologies on film censorship in Italy: Italia taglia e Gli ultimi tagli di Pompei. He is currently co-ordinating a research project financed by the Ministry of Arts and Entertainment and Anica, on film censorship in Italy (a project which should also give rise to a 25-part television series for RAI3).
He is writing a treatment for a story set during the preparation of the La dolce vita. He is working on the out-takes of Ginger & Fred for the Federico Fellini Association, as well as preparing a large book on Fellini's unseen work. Since 1994 he has been one of the owners of Altom srl, a small company specialising in archive research and gathering film material of various kinds (poster, photographs, reviews, films…). Altom has worked with and shared its findings with the Cinema Museum of Turin, as well as the Milan Triennale, the Luce Institute, Ente Gestione Cinema and the Experimental Cinema. He has appeared in numerous films by Nanni Moretti, Peter Del Monte, Gianluca Fumagalli, Mario Franco, Francesco Calogero, Giancarlo Planta, Ranuccio Sodi and Mario Monicelli.

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