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Januarius (Latin: Ianuarius; Italian: Gennaro), also known as Januarius I of Benevento, was Bishop of Benevento and is a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches. While no contemporary sources on his life are preserved, later sources and legends claim that he died during the Great Persecution which ended with Diocletian's retirement in 305.
Januarius is the patron saint of Naples, where the faithful gather three times a year in Naples Cathedral to witness the liquefaction of what is claimed to be a sample of his blood kept in a sealed glass ampoule.
Little is known of the life of Januarius, and what follows is mostly derived from later Christian sources, such as the Acta Bononensia (BHL 4132, not earlier than 6th century) and the Acta Vaticana (BHL 4115, 9th century), and from later-developing folk tradition.
According to various hagiographies, Januarius was born in Benevento to a rich patrician family that traced its descent to the Caudini tribe of the Samnites. At a young age of 15, he became local priest of his parish in Benevento, which at the time was relatively pagan. When Januarius was 20, he became Bishop of Naples and befriended Juliana of Nicomedia and Saint Sossius whom he met during his priestly studies. During the 1 1⁄2-year-long persecution of Christians by Emperor Diocletian, he hid his fellow Christians and prevented them from being caught. Unfortunately, while visiting Sossius in jail, he too was arrested. He and his colleagues were condemned to be thrown to wild bears in the Flavian Amphitheater at Pozzuoli, but the sentence was changed due to fear of public disturbances, and they were instead beheaded at the Solfatara crater near Pozzuoli. Other legends state either that the wild beasts refused to eat them, or that he was thrown into a furnace but came out unscathed.
Actors: Lorenza Indovina (actress), Alessandro Benvenuti (director), Enrico Lo Verso (actor), Paul Sorvino (actor), Antonio Catania (actor), Eva Grimaldi (actress), Giuliana de Sio (actress), Jason Lewis (actor), Massimo Venturiello (actor), Manuela Arcuri (actress), Savio Riccardi (composer), Valeria Milillo (actress), Teodosio Losito (writer), Stefano Tummolini (writer), Laura Sabatino (writer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Alessandro Spiliotopulos (producer), Alessandro Spiliotopulos (editor), Alessandro Spiliotopulos (director), Alessandro Spiliotopulos (writer), Donatella Bartoli (actress), Claudio Bellante (actor), Jessica Resteghini (actress), Sabrina Mastrangelo (actress), Giorgio Perno (actor), Roberto Benfenati (actor), Sonia Golucci (actress), Spyweirdos (composer),
Plot: Vera, after her umpteenth fight with Gennaro, decides to seek elsewhere happiness. Giulio comes as a "Deus ex machina" and she does everything to conquer him, but he, with the first occasion, falls in love with Foglia. The latter soon leaves Giulio to seek love in the arms of Gennaro, prolonging this chain of incomplete relationships. Gennaro will close all this, creating an endless circle...or giving to Vera an another opportunity... will she manage to seize it?
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Lorenzo Lepori (editor), Lorenzo Lepori (producer), Lorenzo Lepori (writer), Lorenzo Lepori (director), Francesco Allegri (actor), Alberto Balducci (editor), Fabio Busato (actor), Alberto Balducci (composer), Gennaro Alfano (actor), Matteo Taddei (actor), Giacomo Lepori (composer), Lorenzo Lepori (composer), Leonardo Victorion (actor),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Alberto Moriani (editor), Tomas Arana (actor), Enzo Cannavale (actor), Pippo Franco (actor), Ben Gazzara (actor), Maurizio Mattioli (actor), Mattia Sbragia (actor), Fabio Testi (actor), Silvana Pampanini (actress), Adriana Russo (actress), Pier Francesco Pingitore (director), Stefano Antonucci (actor), Eva Grimaldi (actress), Alex Partexano (actor), Lorenzo Flaherty (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Joe Grifasi (actor), Al Pacino (actor), Carter Burwell (composer), Sharon Pinkenson (miscellaneous crew), Kerry Lyn McKissick (miscellaneous crew), Andy Romano (actor), Alec Baldwin (actor), Willi Bär (producer), Donna Mitchell (actress), Howard E. Smith (editor), Julie Stevens (miscellaneous crew), Olimpia T. Rinaldi (miscellaneous crew), Joanna Merlin (actress), Joseph Stefano (writer), Joseph Stefano (producer),
Plot: It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to have to buy a ticket to the plush new movie theater. But grandpa's not ready to pass on the quarter or pass on to his final reward: he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past, and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.
Keywords: cinema, confession, grandfather, grandfather-grandson-relationship, great-depression, independent-film, man-with-glasses, old-man, suicide-by-hangingActors: Lindy Hemming (costume designer), Diana Dill (miscellaneous crew), Vittorio Duse (actor), Anita Zagaria (actress), Vittorio Amandola (actor), Fiona Morham (miscellaneous crew), Eileen Way (actress), Peter Boyle (editor), Joseph Long (actor), Henry Goodman (actor), Tony Grisoni (writer), Michael Convertino (composer), Laurie Borg (miscellaneous crew), Sidney Kean (actor), Ronan Vibert (actor),
Plot: Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a café in an Italian neighborhood. One day their father loses the café, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.
Keywords: cafe, immigration, independent-film, italian, italian-immigrantActors: Enzo Cannavale (actor), Franco Fantasia (actor), Tom Felleghy (actor), Pino Ferrara (actor), Pippo Franco (actor), Mario Maranzana (actor), Franco Ressel (actor), Silvia Dionisio (actress), Piero Umiliani (composer), Ferdinando Baldi (director), Alessandro Lucidi (editor), Teo Teocoli (actor), Manolo Bolognini (producer), Alberto Verso (costume designer), Mario Colli (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Pina Renzi (actress), Edda Soligo (actress), Arturo Bragaglia (actor), Amedeo Nazzari (actor), Tina Lattanzi (actress), Clara Calamai (actress), Liana Del Balzo (actress), Camillo Pilotto (actor), Sandro Ruffini (actor), Renato Malavasi (actor), Alfredo Martinelli (actor), Nino Vingelli (actor), Gero Zambuto (actor), Alessandro De Stefani (writer), Paolo Ferrara (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Camille Bardou (actor), René Blancard (actor), Maurice Schutz (actor), Madeleine Guitty (actress), Gaby Morlay (actress), Charles Burguet (writer), Charles Burguet (director), Charles Lamy (actor), Jeanne Bérangère (actress), Adrienne Duriez (actress), Sylviane de Castillo (actress), Henri Duvernois (writer), Suzanne Delmas (actress), Renée van Delly (actress), Céline James (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Henry Armetta (actor), Richard Barthelmess (actor), Tony Merlo (actor), William E. Shay (actor), William Welsh (actor), Jane Fearnley (actress), Herbert Brenon (writer), George Edwardes-Hall (writer), Herbert Brenon (director), James C. McKay (editor), Florence Reed (actress), Stephen Grattan (actor), Alex Shannon (actor), George Fitch (miscellaneous crew), Juliet Brenon (actress),
Genres: Drama,You wild beasts and you creeping things
Get down in your place,
Down with all the absolutes
And God's awful grace.
Who wants to see this coming?
Who wants to think you do?
Better to be blind when I'm
Falling for you
Go and tell old Pharaoh
His time has come about,
His pretty houseboys laugh and sing
As they're filing out.
They set fire behind them
I see it burning into view,
High upon the mountain where I'm
Falling for you
All manner of abandon
Is just the thing we need,
Get ready for the country, boys,
The town has gone to seed.
The telephone line is sagging
With word coming through:
Put your head between your knees, I'm
Falling for you
I can quit this anytime,
It's just to help me sleep,
It stops the tiny voices
And strange hours that they keep.
Who wants to hear them bleating on,
And have to answer too?
Better to be dumb when I'm
Falling for you
So you ladies and you gentlemen--
Pull your bloomers on,
Swing up on the highest beam
And let the floods come on.
Who wants to be there wondering,
When the Wonders rage on through?
Better to say never when I'm