Down and Dirty (film)

Down and Dirty
Down and Dirty
Directed by	Ettore Scola
Written by	Sergio Citti; Ettore Scola; Ruggero Maccari
Produced by	Carlo Ponti; Romano Dandi
Starring	Nino Manfredi; Marcella Michelangeli; Marcella Battisti; Francesco Crescimone; Silvia Ferluga; Zoe Incrocci; Adriana Russo; Franco Merli; Maria Bosco
Cinematography	Dario Di Palma
Music by	Armando Trovajoli
Release date	1976;
Running time	115 min.
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Down and Dirty, also known as Ugly, Dirty and Bad (Brutti, sporchi e cattivi) is an Italian film directed by Ettore Scola and released in 1976.

Ettore Scola won the Prix de la Mise en scène at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]^[2]

^ "Festival de Cannes: Brutti, sporchi e cattivi". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
^ Hellman, Rick (2021-10-07). "Scholar Helps Bring Renewed Focus To Italian Filmmaker". today.ku.edu. Kansas University News Service. Retrieved 2022-08-15. Scola was nominated four times for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and he won the Best Director award in 1976 at Cannes for "Brutti, sporchi e cattivi" ("Ugly, Dirty & Bad"). Before he first sat in the director's chair in 1964, Scola wrote dozens of comedic screenplays, including several masterpieces of Comedy Italian Style, Bowen said. "Some U.S. critics in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Roger Ebert, struggled to accept some of Scola's grotesque portraits of contemporary Italy and preferred his historical films, but this trend hasn't persisted," Bowen said. "The recent rerelease of his grotesque comedy 'Ugly, Dirty and Bad' in New York theaters and in streaming by Film Comment attests to a growing reevaluation of his work."

[festival-cannes.com-1] "Festival de Cannes: Brutti, sporchi e cattivi". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-05.

[2] Hellman, Rick (2021-10-07). "Scholar Helps Bring Renewed Focus To Italian Filmmaker". today.ku.edu. Kansas University News Service. Retrieved 2022-08-15. Scola was nominated four times for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and he won the Best Director award in 1976 at Cannes for "Brutti, sporchi e cattivi" ("Ugly, Dirty & Bad"). Before he first sat in the director's chair in 1964, Scola wrote dozens of comedic screenplays, including several masterpieces of Comedy Italian Style, Bowen said. "Some U.S. critics in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Roger Ebert, struggled to accept some of Scola's grotesque portraits of contemporary Italy and preferred his historical films, but this trend hasn't persisted," Bowen said. "The recent rerelease of his grotesque comedy 'Ugly, Dirty and Bad' in New York theaters and in streaming by Film Comment attests to a growing reevaluation of his work."

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