Top cinema critic Gian Luigi Rondi dead

(ANSA) - Rome, September 22 - Top Italian cinema critic Gian Luigi Rondi died at his home in Rome overnight, ANSA sources said on Thursday. Born in December 1921 in the northern town of Tirano, he started out in 1946 with a column in daily newspaper Il Tempo. He had spells as director and president of the Venice Film Festival and was also chief of the Rome Film Festival Foundation from 2008 to 2012. He was president of David di Donatello awards, Italy's equivalent of the Oscars, too.