Marco Giusti
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| Born | 24 December 1953 (1953-12-24) (age 70)
Grosseto, Italy
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| Occupation | Film critic |
Marco Giusti (born 24 December 1953) is an Italian film critic, essayist, television writer and presenter.
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.[1] In 1974, he co-founded the film journal Il Falcome Maltese.[2] He started working at RAI in 1978,[3] and he created a number of television programs, notably Blob, Stracult and Cocktail d'amore, also co-hosting some of them.[3][4] He is the logtime film critic of the newspaper Il manifesto and of the magazine L'Espresso, where he launched the first Italian column about criticism of commercials.[4] Starting from 1983, he curated several retrospectives for the Venice Film Festival.[4] He is author of numerous books, mostly focusing on Italian genre cinema.[4][5]
Giusti is married to film critic Alessandra Mammì, the daughter of the former Italian Republican Party politician and minister Oscar Mammì.[3]
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