The best Asia Argento’s documentary movies

Asia Argento

Asia Argento

20/09/1975 (48 años)
Asia Argento (born Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento; 20 September 1975) is an Italian actress, singer, model, and director. Her mother is actress Daria di Nicolodi and her father is Dario de Argento, an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, well known for his work in the Italian giallo genre and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies. Her maternal great-grandfather was composer Alfredo Casella. Asia Argento started acting at the age of nine,[9] playing a small role in a film by Sergio Citti. She also had a small part in Demons 2, a 1986 film written and produced by her father, at the age of 10, as well as its unofficial sequel, La Chiesa (The Church), when she was 14, and Trauma (1993), when she was 18. She received the David di Donatello (Italy's version of the Academy Award) for Best Actress in 1994 for her performance in Perdiamoci di vista, and again in 1996 for Compagna di viaggio, which also earned her a Grolla d'oro award. In 1998, Argento began appearing in English-language movies, such as B. Monkey and New Rose Hotel. Argento has proven her ability to work in multiple languages, adding French, with a role as Charlotte de Sauve in 1994's La Reine Margot. That same year, she made her first foray into directing, calling the shots behind the short films Prospettive and A ritroso. In 1996, she directed a documentary on her father, and in 1998 a second one on Abel Ferrara, which won her the Rome Film Festival Award. Argento directed and wrote her first movie, Scarlet Diva (2000), which her father co-produced. In 2002, she portrayed Russian undercover spy Yelena in the action film XXX alongside Vin Diesel. In 2004 she directed her second film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, based on a book by JT LeRoy, the pen name of Laura Albert, this time in the United States. Description above from the Wikipedia article Asia Argento, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 16/07/2021
  • Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Anthony Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.

Frida - Viva la vida

Frida - Viva la vida
6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 25/11/2019
  • Character: Narrator (voice)
The two sides of Frida Kahlo's spirit: on one side the revolutionary, pioneering artist of contemporary feminism and on the other, the human being, victim of her tortured body and a tormented relationship.

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
6.8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/2000
  • Character: Herself
Documentary that explores Argento's film career.

Abel/Asia

Abel/Asia
4.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1998
  • Character: Herself
Behind the scenes mini-doc from Asia Argento on Abel Ferrara during the filming of New Rose Hotel.

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento
5.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1997
  • Character: Herself
Another biographical video of Dario Argento, the Italian film director. Many special effects are covered along with interviews with associates and various film clips.

The Making of Marie Antoinette

The Making of Marie Antoinette
6.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 02/07/2007
  • Character: Self
A behind the scenes look at Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006).

The Making of Last Days

The Making of Last Days
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/2004
  • Character: Herself
Behind-the-scenes documentary of Gus Van Sant's "Last Days."

Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!

Nice to Meet You, Please Don't Love Me!
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/03/2004
  • Character: Herself
A documentary on Asia Argento, made during the making of "the Heart is Deceitful Above All Things." Cinema has always been a part of her life, so much so that she cannot separate her childhood souvenirs from her film career. With Abel Ferrara, Peter Fonda, Marilyn Manson, Rancid, John Robinson...

Don't Bother To Knock

Don't Bother To Knock
Actress and director Asia Argento created this mesmerising series of film shorts exclusively for SHOWstudio over the course of October 2006. The vignettes, drawing on an ad-hoc 'video diary' aesthetic but in fact painstakingly directed, intertwine reality with fantasy thanks to a script devised by Emma Forrest that confuses fiction with reality.

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