Starting today, the pre-opening with PIF and HELL, Antonio Monda Thursday the test of its second year of artistic direction
Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome Luigi Noera - Photo courtesy of the Rome Film Festival
We start with a brief tribute to the Master A. Wajda whose latest film AfterImage will be presented and who, as we know, disappeared the day before yesterday: Hello Master'll see you up there! We would have liked to meet in Rome . . .
But now NUMBERS THE ELEVENTH EDITION: 44 films that 11 Documentary in the Official Selection, cincluding 4 “Everyone talks about it” e 3 in collaboration with Alice in the City, but also 4 Special Events and 13 meetings as well as 3 retrospectives and 10 compliments. I'm 26 the participating countries in the Official Selection: Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, China, South Korea, France, Germany, Japan, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Mongolia, Pakistan, Palestina, Peru, Poland, UK, Spain, United States, Switzerland.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS space dedicated to meetings with directors, actors and great personalities of the world of
culture including Tom Hanks, winner of two Academy Awards® for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, He starred in three decades of great cinema and extraordinarily successful films such as Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, Apollo 13, The Da Vinci Code up to the bridge of the spies, who will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. During the award ceremony there will be a meeting with Antonio Monda, in which sequences of his films will be shown and the clip of a much loved film to Hanks. The next day begins a retrospective of fifteen films, which will get his work as a director. “Considero Tom Hanks uno dei più grandi attori di tutti i tempi – dichiara Monda – per la versatilità con cui sa spaziare dal dramma alla commedia, and the psychological subtlety with which manages to capture the characters that will remain forever in our imagination. His extraordinary talent and profound humanity make it a classic and always modern actor: his films and his performances never grow old ". But also the return of Meryl Streep, awarded three times by the Academy for Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice and The Iron Lady, exceptionally talented performer for directors such as Fred Zinnemann, Woody Allen, Sydney Pollack, Robert Zemeckis e Clint Eastwood, among others, It will speak to the audience of the great Italian actresses who have influenced, Silvana Mangano on all.
The festival hosts not only the stars of cinema, but also representatives of the world of writing as David Mamet, premio Pulitzer per play "Glengarry Glen Ross", author of The House of Games and The blow, screenwriter of dozens of films including The Untouchables Brian De Palma and Ridley Scott's Hannibal. Mamet will be the focus of a meeting with the public in his dual role as director and writer for film. Also from the world of writing Don DeLillo, central figure of postmodern American fiction, keen observer of the transformations that cross the US company, gossip about the relationship between cinema and literature, and his passion for Michelangelo Antonioni. The festival does not mind even an artist like Daniel Libeskind, protagonist deconstructivist architecture, who signed the Jewish Museum in Berlin and is the author of the project for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center in New York. Libeskind will discuss the relationship between the seventh art and architecture and his love for film by Paolo Sorrentino.
RETROSPECTIVE
In addition to the aforementioned review the best film of Tom Hanks, There will be two retrospectives, also by Mario Sesti: the first dedicated to Valerio Zurlini and the second, close to the presidential election, theme will be American policy with fifteen films, da John Ford e Frank Capra a Steven Spielberg.
GIFTS
A special tribute will be dedicated to Luigi Comencini, which marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth. Fo r this is foreseen an exhibition of fifty photographs taken by the director, a memory for the projection daughters mouth after the restoration of one of his masterpieces, The Adventures of Pinocchio. They will also be presented the restoration of Queimada, as homage to Gillo Pontecorvo on the tenth anniversary of his death, and L'Armata Brancaleone, which marks the fiftieth anniversary output.
CONFERENCES
The eleventh edition of the Festival will host among others a International conference on the role of criticism: between the protagonists, the critic of the "New York Times", A. O. Scott.
THE FEAST INVADE THE CITY
The Auditorium Parco della Musica is the hub of the Film Festival from 2006 with red carpet and screening rooms. As every year, The festival will involve many other places in the Capital: We start from the Cinema Village - where there will be a marquee around eight hundred seats - and you will come to theaters in the city, from the center to the periphery. The Festival will also take place at the most important cultural facilities in the capital and will have a special red carpet in Via Condotti, in collaboration with the homonymous Association.
Together with the Official Selection, the Retrospectives, play bonuses and Close Encounters, There will also be a band we called Everyone talks about, in which audiences will be among the best films presented in other festivals that have not yet been distributed in Italy. Also this year the two key words to which the artistic direction took inspiration were quality and variety. And 'this is a test case for Antonio Monda although the presence of both the Studios
massive. Sorry but that was not provided for a jury of film fans and prize reintroduction Marco Aurelio.
In this new edition, you can draw some lines guides on topics of great relevance, such as the American policy, which it is dedicated to a comprehensive retrospective, and the precariousness of the job, topic that dominates the three Italian films presented in the official selection on 44
overall.
Una particolare attenzione è stata riservata al cinema messicano che insieme a quello rumeno è tra i più vitali dell’intero pianeta secondo il parere di Monda e mostrando generi e linguaggi differenti. Then there will be links and dialogue in the programming: al film Fritz Lang, presented in the Official Selection, was joined M, the director's masterpiece, and the recent and powerful Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker, also it was joined, in the retrospective on American politics, the eponymous film by Griffith 1915: Parker has deliberately used the same title, just to mark a path different from that film, key on the language as repugnant plan on what content.
Therefore, there is a gradation of importance between the Official Selection, the Retrospectives, The Close Encounters, Bonuses and other events of the festival. And never forget that the magic of the cinema was born from sharing an emotion within a space constructed of two complementary poles and antithetical: on the one hand the big bright screen, the other the darkness of the room, that envelops all in a dimension of dream. What happens on the screen is nothing more than an illusion, which, however, can trigger revolutionary energy of those who benefit.
As it happened last year with Antonio Pietrangeli, the retrospective of Valerio Zurlini retraces the work of a great Italian filmmaker, underestimated in life and almost forgotten after his death. The Zurlini film contains not only a personality and unique style but also is the manifesto of a valuable idea of cinema.
So let's look at Alice in the City, the independent and parallel section of the Rome Film Festival dedicated to the younger generation, with some advances on the issue 2016. Now in its fourteenth edition, with the title of the opening film in the Young / Adult: "3 Generations - be yourself to be happy" Gaby Dellal with Naomi Watts, Elle Fanning, Susan Sarandon.
The section will Young│Adult 12 films to enter the competition, voted by a jury of 27 boys and girls between the 14 e i 18 years, selected throughout the national territory. Thanks to the Intergroup of the Parliamentary Chamber of Deputies, the festival is enriched by a second-generation guys jury.
Three films from the United States in addition to 3 Generations – an almost perfect family by Gaby Dellal. New Zealand is represented by cult director Taika Waititi with his latest work Hunt for the Wilderpeople
From the UK comes to London Town Derrick Borte, film inspired by The Clash music that matters Cypriot director Petros Charalombous presents his directorial debut Boy on the Bridge, Fatih Akin brings to the big screen Goodbye Berlin lucky teen romance. Finland comes Little Wing debut of Selma directed Vilhunen former candidate Oscar. Belgium does not stop surprising presenting two films that take away the skin to the real: My First Highway, debut of the promising Kevin Meul, mentre la registra Mijke de Jong (Blue bird, Stop Acting Now) It presents Layla M., story of a Dutch-Moroccan teenager who joins an Islamist cell in the Middle East.
I'm 10 the films that will make up the program that Alice in the city dedicated to the Panorama of all those works which, although telling the world of the younger generation, They offer an excuse to say things to adults and young people. It will be the space in which to present contrasting themes showing the devastating power, sometimes surreal, a reality that is never simple show.
In all this we are sorry detect the absence of Italian titles. According to the artistic director also due to some "muggings" of films in Venice. Remedy the MIA which has some interesting Italian titles. Finally back Taodue the Golden Camera Award for best first or second scheduled.
Worth noting is the Tribute to the great director who died recently Abbas Kiarostami and his vision of childhood always been a leader in his filmography
But already in this third pre-opening evening you can witness the great American cinema with the screening at Mazda Cinema Hall in Ron Howard HELL, United States, Japan, Turkey, Hungary, 2016, 122'With Tom Hanks. The Academy Award winner Ron Howard returns to direct the last of the series of bestselling Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code) whose protagonist Robert Langdon, “Inferno”, in cui il famous symbolist (again starring Tom Hanks) this time it's on the trail of a series of clues related to the great poet Dante.
Tomorrow 12 October instead at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Sala Petrassi the last day of pre-opening with the screening of IN WAR FOR LOVE and Piefrancesco Diliberto (conk), Italy, 2016, 99'And the Sicilian actress Miriam Leone.
A light-hearted but not too set in Italy's image 1943: at the height of World War II when the Allies landed in Sicily, the event that will forever change the history of Sicily, Italy and the Mafia.
From Thursday, the festival comes alive with Moonlights and see what the reaction will be the
public protagonist of the Festival.