question: Which director is from a country closer to Canada, Alessandro Blasetti or Frank Tashlin?
answer: Frank Tashlin
context: Title: Gábor Pogány
  Passage: Gábor Pogány (1915–1999) was a Hungarian-born Italian cinematographer.  Born in Budapest and educated in Britain, Pogány emigrated to Italy and spent much of his career in the country.  He worked on over a hundred films during his career, mainly Italian films as well as some international productions.  He worked frequently with the director Vittorio De Sica on films such as "Two Women" (1960).  In 1960 he won a Nastro d'Argento for best cinematography for his work in Alessandro Blasetti's "European Nights".
  Title: Giulio Paradisi
  Passage: Born in Rome, Paradisi enrolled the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and immediately after the graduation he made his acting debut with a small role in Alessandro Blasetti's "Too Bad She's Bad".  After playing several other character roles with notable directors including Federico Fellini and Francesco Maselli, since 1963 he was assistant director, then directing a few films of good commercial success between 1970 and 1982.  Paradisi was also active as a stage director and as a director of commercials.
  Title: Alessandro Blasetti
  Passage: Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film "Quattro passi fra le nuvole".  Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era.  He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s.
  Title: Me, Me, Me... and the Others
  Passage: Me, Me, Me... and the Others (Italian: "Io, io, io... e gli altri" ) is a 1966 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti.  For this film Blasetti won the David di Donatello for best director.
  Title: The Old Guard (1934 film)
  Passage: The Old Guard (Italian: Vecchia guardia) is a 1934 Italian drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Gianfranco Giachetti, Mino Doro and Franco Brambilla.  It was one several pro-Fascist films made by Blasetti during the era.  The film is set in a small Italian town in 1922, where a local group of Fascist blackshirts battle against rival socialists who have called a strike at the hospital.  Mario, the young son of Doctor Cardini, is killed in the fighting.  The film ends with the March on Rome that brought Benito Mussolini to power.
  Title: Bellissima (film)
  Passage: Bellissima (1951) is an Italian neorealism film by Italian director Luchino Visconti.  The film, which is a satire of the film industry, was shot at the Cinecittà studios.  Alessandro Blasetti, a contemporary film director, appears as himself.  Bellissima is the only feature film in Visconti's oeuvre with a predominantly comic tone.
  Title: Frank Tashlin
  Passage: Francis Fredrick von Taschlein (February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972), better known by his stage name Frank Tashlin, was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director.  He was also known as Tish Tash and Frank Tash.
  Title: Aldebaran (film)
  Passage: Aldebaran is a 1935 Italian drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Gino Cervi, Evi Maltagliati and Gianfranco Giachetti.  The film was a naval melodrama, an attempt by Blasetti to make a more commercial film following the difficulties encountered with the propagandist "The Old Guard" (1934).
  Title: Mother Earth (film)
  Passage: Mother Earth (Italian: Terra madre) is a 1931 Italian drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Leda Gloria, Sandro Salvini and Isa Pola.  It was made at the Cines Studios in Rome.  Along with Blasetti's other early films, it shows a strong influence of Soviet-style realism.  A country landowner decides to sell up and move to the city, but later has a change of heart.  It was part of Fascist Italy's promotion of rural over urban values.
  Title: Izzy Ellis
  Passage: Isadore Ellis (1910–1994), credited as I. Ellis and known throughout the animation industry as Izzy Ellis, was an American animator best known for working for Warner Bros.  Cartoons under the Bob Clampett & Frank Tashlin units.  Ellis had a long career in the animation industry, which started at Ub Iwerks Studio in 1935.  After three years, Ellis moved to Leon Schlesinger Productions, where he worked under the Clampett B/W unit, under the Ray Katz management.  Ellis continued to animate in the B/W unit under the supervision of Norman McCabe, and eventually Frank Tashlin.  Ellis reunited with Clampett after Robert McKimson took over Tashlin's unit.  However, Ellis relocated to McKimson's unit after Art Davis took over the Clampett unit.  In 1948, Ellis left to do commercial work.
citations: Frank Tashlin Alessandro Blasetti