Special Event hosted by the International Seminar On The Critical Approaches to Dante (ISCAD 2017) with live musical accompaniment by Maurizio Guarini.
L’Inferno, directed by F. Bertolini, G. de Liguoro and A. Padovan, is a 1911 Italian silent film, loosely adapted from Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. L’Inferno took over three years to make, and was the first full-length Italian feature film ever made. L’Inferno was first screened in Naples in the Teatro Mercadante on March 10, 1911.[2] An international success, it took in more than $2 million in the United States alone, where its length gave theater owners an excuse for raising ticket prices.[3] For this reason, L’Inferno was arguably the first true blockbuster in all of cinema. Today it is regarded by many scholars and fans as the finest film adaptation of any of Dante’s works to date.
Maurizio Guarini is a self-taught keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, best known as a member of the progressive rock band Goblin. In spring 1975 Massimo Morante from Goblin invited Guarini to join the band, just after Dario Argento’s Deep Red was released. Starting with the very first concert in September 1975, Goblin, that reached top of the charts at that time, kept touring Italy until the end of 1976. In March 1976 Goblin released the album Roller. Just after three days of recording of the score for the movie Suspiria by Dario Argento, on November 23, 1976, Guarini temporarily left the band. Late in 1978, after two years of studio work mainly in studio at RCA Records in Rome, Guarini re-joined Goblin, with a different line-up. Production of the band in the following years includes scores for the movies Patrick (1978), Buio Omega (1979), Contamination (1980), St.Helene’s (1981), Notturno (1983) and the non-movie related album Volo (1982).
In parallel, during this years, Guarini collaborated with other musicians, mainly with the Italian composer Fabio Frizzi, and performed as session musician in several scores, mostly for movies directed by Italian director Lucio Fulci: The Beyond, City of Living Dead, Zombi 2 and others. Still about film scoring, in 1984 Maurizio started a cooperation with the Italian Composer Pino Donaggio, with whom he collaborated on 25 soundtracks.
Doors open at 6:30pm
Screening at 7:00pm
Event promoted and supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaboration with the Department of Italian Studies, UofT.