Cinema e fumetto
“As someone who makes comics, I care a lot about the cinematic framing of my stories. (…) if you do adventure stories you can really show how you set up the camera, how you move it, how you go into houses. It’s all there.”
Andrea Pazienza, 1983
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
The Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 gives the satirists of Il Male the cue for a reinterpretation of Coppola’s film. The page Apokaliski Da is “directed” by Vincino and Andrioli, while Andrea is instead the “camera operator”, “set designer”, “lighting technician”, etc.
The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)
Music, anarchy and pop culture merge in a film that deeply marked theimagination of the 1980s. A universe so irreverent and overwhelming that it fascinated Andrea Pazienza, prompting him to devote a series of illustrations and comics to the Blues brothers.
The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1966)
One of Andrea’s many tributes to Totò and his surreal comedy, at times tinged with melancholy, which extends to become a tribute also to Pier Paolo Pasolini and to great Italian auteur cinema.
Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah, 1977)
Illustration for the Cooperativa Cinema, which in 1987 launched an experiment in cross-pollination between cinema and comics, inviting well-known Italian artists to illustrate hypothetical posters for great classics of international cinema.