RIP Giurato Blasco

 

The director of photography Blasco Giurato is dead

 

Cinecitta News

12/26/2022

 

Director of photography, Giurato Blasco died in Rome on December 26. Born in 1941, he collaborated with Giuseppe Tornatore in the film Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, obtaining a BAFTA nomination, and also in the subsequent Una pura formalità. He also worked with Dino Risi, Lina Wertmuller, Pupi Avati, Renzo Martinelli.

Blasco received his professional training with a series of short-length films, winning the Florence “Festival dei Popoli” with “The Furthest Island”. His camera operator career began at the side of Dario Di Palma, then Rotunno and Kuveiller, collaborating with the greatest directors of the period, such as Fellini (“I Clowns”, “Roma”), Zurlini, Gregoretti, Giraldi, Questi, Wertmuller, Vancini, Pasolini, Maselli, Petri, Monicelli, Lumet, Bolognini, Pontecorvo, etc. In 1975 he started working as a Director of Photography with a TV drama by Daniele d’Anza, “La Baronessa di Carini”, a huge success still nowadays, and Eriprando Visconti’s “La Orca”, which brought him immediately his first “Nastro d’Argento” and “David di Donatello” nomination for best cinematography. Throughout his career he’s been often requested for commercials. In 1985 he had his first collaboration with Giuseppe Tornatore for the film “Il Camorrista”, followed by “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”, “Everybody’s Fine”, “A Pure Formality”

BLASCO, Giurato

Born: 6/7/1941, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died: 12/??2022, Rome, Lazio, Italy

 

Giurato’s western – camera operator:

The Specialist – 1969