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"Almost Blue" is a 2000 Italian thriller film directed by Alex Infascelli.
- also known as Quasi blu
- country: Italy
- language: Italian Language
- producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori
- production design by Eugenia Di Napoli
- written by Sergio Donati, Alex Infascelli, Luca Infascelli
- based on a story by Carlo Lucarelli
- starring:
  - Lorenza Indovina as Grazia Negro
  - Claudio Santamaria as Simone Martini
  - Rolando Ravello as Alessio Crotti
  - Andrea Di Stefano as Vittorio Poletto
  - Dario D'Ambrosi as Matera
  - Marco Giallini as Sarrina
  - Benedetta Buccellato as Madre Simone
  - Luciano Curreli as Raul Crotti
  - Cesare Bocci as Magistrato
  - Regina Orioli as Lorenza
  - Marisa Solinas as Vedova Lazzaroni
  - Sandro Giupponi as Questore
  - Federico Pacifici as Capitano Carabinieri
  - Luis Molteni as Brigadiere Carabinieri
  - Angelica Di Majo as Vera
- cinematography by Arnaldo Catinari
- edited by Valentina Girodo
- music by Massimo Volume
- costume design by Lia Francesca Morandini
- genre: Thriller
- released on 17 November 2000 (15 years ago)
- award: 2001
  - David di Donatello for Best New Director nomination for Alex Infascelli
  - David di Donatello for Best New Director, received by Alex Infascelli
"Almost Blue" is a 1992 film written and directed by Keoni Waxman.
- country: United States of America
- language: English Language
- starring:
- costume design by Marian Ceo
- genres: Thriller, Indie film, Romance Film, Drama
- rating: R (USA)
- released in 1992 (24 years ago)

Writings

"Almost Blue" is a book by Carlo Lucarelli.

Music

"Almost Blue" is a song by Elvis Costello that appears on his 1982 album Imperial Bedroom. It is said to be inspired by Chet Baker's version of the song "The Thrill Is Gone". Baker closed the circle by recording the song for Let's Get Lost, a Bruce Weber documentary film about Baker's life. Baker also performed the song at concerts and it was recorded for his live album Chet Baker in Tokyo.
- music and lyrics by Elvis Costello
"Almost Blue" is an album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. It was recorded May 1981 in Nashville, and released on 23 October 1981. The record's songs consist entirely of country covers, including works originally written by Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, George Jones and Gram Parsons. It is Costello's first album not to be produced by Nick Lowe.
- artists: Elvis Costello & The Attractions & Elvis Costello
- genres: Rock music, Country, New Wave, Alternative country, Cowpunk
- released on 23 October 1981 (34 years ago)
"Almost Blue" is a musical album of Clark Terry & The Ritz.
- released in 1991 (25 years ago)
"Almost Blue" is a musical album of Ingrid Lucia.
"Almost Blue" is a musical album of Ladies & Gents.
- released on 29 March 2013
"Almost Blue" is a musical album of Chet Baker.
- released in 2000 (16 years ago)

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Outstanding Men's Monologues (2010)

volume two by Craig Pospisil, Danna Call

SYNOPSIS: ALMOST BLUE is a stage noir set in a seedy rooming house, whose tenants include a man just out of prison trying to stay straight, a strange loner down the hall who writes pornographic greeting cards, a violent ex-con who wants ...

Outstanding Women's Monologues (2010)

volume two by Craig Pospisil, Danna Call

The New Encyclopedia of Hostas (2009)

by Diana Grenfell, Michael Shadrack

Most hostas in this group will assume a blue-green tinge earlier or later in the growing season, but some will remain almost blue until autumn. This phenomenon, which depends on genetic make-up, light levels, and degree of sum- mer heat, ...

Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets (2015)

sheaddresses "a drifter/withedges that are notdistinct," yet imbues this indistinctness with a pleasing sensory concretenessin a catalogue of colors: "your white / that is almost blue"; ...

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2011)

by Colin Larkin

with the Attractions Almost Blue (F-Beat/ Columbia 1981), with the Attractions Imperial Bedroom (F-Beat/Columbia 1982), with the Attractions Punch The Clock ...

An Encyclopedia of Natural History

Its general colour varies from rufous grey to almost blue, and especially in ...

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (2014)

The Twentieth Century by Eric L. Haralson

“Almost Blue,” from the same volume, uses multiple fragments from The Bridge tocall forth an urban reality that Doty callsa “long amalgam ofardor and indifference.” By the1940s and 1950s most gay poets wereno longer satisfied with astyle of ...

A Lexicon of Alchemy (2014)

by Martin Rulandus

That which is deposited on the sides of the furnace and cannot ascend to the top on account of its heaviness; this is crusty Placitis, of which there are also two speciesOnychitis, outwardly almost blue, and within spotted like the onyx Ostracitis, ...

Leung's Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients (2011)

Used in Food, Drugs and Cosmetics by Ikhlas A. Khan, Ehab A. Abourashed

The colorvarieswith the pH, fromredto purple, and finally to almost blue as the pH is changed from 1 to 8. The pigments are moststablebelow pH3and are not stable athigher pH values:they arealso sensitive to heat, oxygen,and light.6,7 ...