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Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
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[Opened Dec. 2 in theaters.] Michael Stuhlbarg narrates Luca Guadagnino's engaging, informative, fascinating, insightful, inspirational, in-depth, 2-hour, 2020 documentary based on Ferragamo's 1955 memoir that chronicles the life, craftsmanship, and legendary career of influential, innovative, world renowned Italian shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo who designed and made shoes for stars such as Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Lottie Pickford, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Rudolph Valentino, Monty Banks, Rita Hayworth, Barbara LaMarr, Pola Negri, Sophia Loren, Ingrid Bergman, Dolores Costellos sisters, Lillian Gish, and Douglas Fairbanks and consists of archival photographs and film footage, stop-motion "shoe ballet" by artist PES, and candid commentary by film director Martin Scorsese, writer Luca Scarlini, granddaughters (such as Ginevra Visconti, Martina Ferragamo, and Maria Sole Ferragamo), nephew Jerry Ferragamo, fashion critic Suzy Menkes, shoe designers (such as Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, and Francesco Russo), daughters Giovanna Gentile and Fiamma Ferragamo, wife Wanda Ferragamo, historian Elvira Valler, Santa Barbara Museum director Michael Redmon, film critic and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto director Jay Weissberg, costume designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis, film restorer Robert Byrne, Deadline film critic Todd McCarthy, actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin, sons (such as Ferruccio, Massimo, and Leonardo Ferragamo), bioengineering historian Emily Mayhew, grandson Diego Di San Guiliano, Fondazione Ferragamo and Ferragamo Museum director Stefania Ricci, art historian Riccardo Spinelli, critic and curator Maria Luisa Frisa, Florence Academy of Fine Arts Chairman Carlo Sisi, fashion editor Stefano Tonchi, fashion critic and journalist Giusy Ferré, fashion historian and curator Sofia Gnoli, Dior Heritage Director Soizic Pfaff, and fashion editor and writer Grace Coddington.

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2022
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