question: Are Hal Ashby and Ciro Ippolito of the same nationality?
answer: no
context: Title: The Landlord
  Passage: The Landlord is a 1970 film directed by Hal Ashby, based on the 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter.  The film stars Beau Bridges in the lead role of a well-to-do white man who becomes landlord of an inner-city tenement, unaware that the people he is responsible for are low-income, streetwise residents.  Also in the cast are Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, and Louis Gossett, Jr..  The film was Ashby's first film as director.
  Title: Hal Ashby
  Passage: Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 – December 27, 1988) was an American film director and editor associated with the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.
  Title: Vanilla and Chocolate
  Passage: Vanilla and Chocolate (Italian: "Vaniglia e cioccolato" ) is a 2004 Italian romance film directed by Ciro Ippolito.
  Title: Second-Hand Hearts
  Passage: Second-Hand Hearts is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Hal Ashby from a screenplay by Charles Eastman.  A shorter version of this screenplay, under its original intended title "The Hamster of Happiness", was written by Eastman for the unconventional NBC anthology series "NBC Experiment in Television", which was broadcast in 1968 with Mildred Dunnock and Susan Tyrell in the cast.  It was the second of three films Ashby directed which were produced by Lorimar Productions.
  Title: Blake Torney
  Passage: Blake Torney is an American producer, director, actor and entertainer.  His prestigious career includes theatre, film, television, and nightclubs.  Blake has worked with film directors Alfred Hitchcock, Franco Zeffirelli, Hal Ashby, John Frankenheimer, Barry Levinson and Paul Verhoven.  His dancing and singing skills have enlivened audiences and given him the opportunity to work with Tom Jones, Janis Joplin, Michael Jackson, and Sammy Davis Jr.  among others.  Blake is a 4th generation San Franciscan.  Born in Northern California with his twin brother Kirkham Wright.  Along with his older brother, musician Ned Torney, Blake has performed and recorded some of his, and Kirk's, original music.  He's also an accomplished guitarist who sings and plays music with his son Orion FreedomSong and Django Gurley, performing at festivals and other venues.  Since 1974, Blake has directed and performed children's educational projects with Bethany Argisle's "Moment Museum".
  Title: Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
  Passage: Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits Vol.  2 is a compilation album released by Cat Stevens in 1984.  Its fourteen songs include hits such as "Father and Son" and "Where Do the Children Play? " as well as two previously unreleased tracks from the Hal Ashby and Colin Higgins black comedy "Harold and Maude" (1971).  And the obscure B-side "I want to Live in a Wigwam" from the Teaser sessions.
  Title: Ciro's
  Passage: Ciro's (later known as Ciro's Le Disc) was a nightclub in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard, on the Sunset Strip, opened in January 1940 by entrepreneur William Wilkerson.  Herman Hover took over management of Ciro's in 1942 until it closed its doors in 1957.  Hover filed for bankruptcy in 1959, and Ciro's was sold at public auction for $350,000.
  Title: Ciro Ippolito
  Passage: Ciro Ippolito (born Naples, Italy, 27 January 1947) is an Italian film director and producer.  He is known to horror film fans for his 1980 opus "", which he coproduced, wrote and directed.
  Title: Night Alarm
  Passage: Night Alarm is a 1934 American drama film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring Bruce Cabot as a down on his luck reporter, Hal Ashby, who tries to make a name for himself by investigating a series of bizarre arson attacks.  The film, which was a hit in movie theatres at the time, is now widely available in the public domain.
  Title: Alien 2: On Earth
  Passage: Alien 2: On Earth/ Alien 2 Sulla Terra, also known as Alien Terror and Strangers, is a 1980 science fiction film, written and directed by Ciro Ippolito before the trademark "Alien" was registered.  It was released following the success of the 1979 film "Alien" as an unofficial sequel, albeit having little connection to the film.
citations: Ciro Ippolito Hal Ashby