{"id":562,"date":"2004-02-19T12:44:42","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T20:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/02\/on_a_lighter_note_life_italian\/"},"modified":"2004-02-19T12:44:42","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T20:44:42","slug":"on_a_lighter_note_life_italian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/02\/on_a_lighter_note_life_italian.html","title":{"rendered":"ON A LIGHTER NOTE: LIFE ITALIAN-STYLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The prolific Italian filmmaker Bruno Bozzetto has a delightful&nbsp;animated cartoon, <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bozzetto.com\/Flash\/Life.htm\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>&#8220;Life,&#8221;<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>&nbsp;now running on the Web. Just click the<br \/>\nlink, then click the flashing word &#8220;play&#8221; when it comes up on your screen. You&#8217;ll be well<br \/>\nrewarded. In 90&nbsp;mostly whimsical seconds, Bozzetto pretty much summarizes the history of<br \/>\nlife on Earth from its creation to the 21st century.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>So who&nbsp;is this <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bozzetto.com\/bio\/biografia.htm\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Bozzetto<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>? He&nbsp;was born in Milan in 1938,<br \/>\nbegan making films at age 15, and was 20 when <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bozzetto.com\/shorts\/Tapum\/tapum.htm\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>&#8220;Tapum! La storia delle armi&#8221;<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> first brought him to<br \/>\npublic and critical attention. He has produced about <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bozzetto.com\/filmografia.htm\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>100<br \/>\nanimated cartoons<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, winning too <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bozzetto.com\/festivalspremiemostre.htm\"><EM><STRONG><FONT\ncolor=#003399>many prizes<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/A> to bother counting them all,<br \/>\nincluding an Oscar nomination in 1991 for &#8220;Cavallette.&#8221; Here&#8217;s<EM><FONT color=#003399><br \/>\n<\/FONT><\/EM><A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bozzetto.com\/shorts\/Grasshoppers\/grasshoppers1.htm\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>a still from it<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> for Mel Gibson.&nbsp;Bozzetto&#8217;s most<br \/>\npopular character is probably <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bozzetto.com\/Rossi\/rossishorts\/rossicar1.htm\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Signor Rossi<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prolific Italian filmmaker Bruno Bozzetto has a delightful&nbsp;animated cartoon, &#8220;Life,&#8221;&nbsp;now running on the Web. 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