Lanci, Giuseppe

(1942-)

   Cinematographer. Better known as Beppe (short for Giuseppe), Lanci studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia before serving an apprenticeship as assistant cameraman with Tonino Delli Colli, Mario Montuori, and Franco Di Giacomo. From 1979 he became the preferred cinematographer of Marco Bellocchio, photographing eight of his major films, worked with Paolo and Vittorio Taviani on Kaos (Chaos, 1984) and Good Morning Babilonia (1986), with Mauro Bolognini on La Veneziana (The Venetian Woman, 1985) and La villa del venerdi (Husbands and Lovers, 1992), and with Nanni Moretti on Palombella Rossa (Red Lob, 1988), Caro diario (Dear Diary, 1993), Aprile (April, 1996), and La stanza del figlio (The Son's Room, 2001). He also collaborated extensively with the younger generation of directors who emerged in the 1990s, working on, among others, Francesca Archibugi's Con gli occhi chiusi (With Closed Eyes, 1994) and Daniele Luchetti's Ipiccoli maestri (Little Teachers, 1997). Internationally he served as director of photography for Margarethe Von Trotta's Furchten und Lieben (Three Sisters, 1988) and, memorably, for Andrei Tarkovsky, for whom he produced the stunning images of Nostalghia (Nostalgia, 1984). Among his many awards is the David di Donatello he won in 1986 for his work on Lina Wertmuller's Un complicato intrigo di donne, vicoli e delitti (Camorra: A Story of Streets, Women and Crime, 1986).