Marco Giusti

Marco Giusti
Giusti at the 2025 Torino Film Festival
Born24 December 1953 (1953-12-24) (age 72)
Grosseto, Italy
OccupationFilm critic

Marco Giusti (born 24 December 1953) is an Italian film critic, essayist, television writer and presenter.

Life and career

The son of a quaestor, Giusti was born in Grosseto and during his early years frequently moved following his father's employment commitments, living in Ferrara, Trapani, Ragusa, Perugia, Trieste and Genoa. In 1974, he co-founded the film journal Il Falcome Maltese. He started working at RAI in 1978, and he created a number of television programs, notably Blob, Stracult and Cocktail d'amore, also co-hosting some of them. He is the longtime film critic of the newspaper Il manifesto and of the magazine L'Espresso, where he launched the first Italian column about criticism of commercials. Starting from 1983, he curated several retrospectives for the Venice Film Festival. He is author of numerous books, mostly focusing on Italian genre cinema.

Personal life

Giusti is married to film critic Alessandra Mammì, the daughter of the former Italian Republican Party politician and minister Oscar Mammì.

References

  1. ↑ "Giusti, lo Stracult del piccolo schermo". Perfide Interviste (in Italian). 23 November 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  2. ↑ "Da Stracult a Grosseto: viaggio nella commedia sexy con Marco Giusti". Maremma News (in Italian). 17 January 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 Redazione (5 September 2019). "Critico, saggista e autore televisivo di programmi cult: ecco a voi Marco Giusti!". Donna Glamour (in Italian). Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Grasso, Aldo; Scaglioni, Massimo. "Giusti, Marco". Enciclopedia della Televisione. Garzanti, 1996 – 2003. p. 308. ISBN 881150466X.
  5. ↑ Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. "Giusti, Marco" Catalogo dei viventi. Marsilio, 2009. ISBN 9788831795999.