SAVE the Date: the 25 June to Farnese Gianfranco Pannone repeats in a modern way his America in Rome
Twenty years after the first international at the Locarno Film Festival 1998 which earned the jury prize for best documentary film award Free Gonzo the third act of the trilogy made between 1991 e 1998 Little America, Letters from America and America in Rome , Gianfranco Pannone is honored at Cinema Farnese in Rome, and precisely it presents the history of ‘ Spaghetti western’.
In addition to the generous director will be the producer Mario Mazzarotto, cinematographer Tarek Ben Abdallah, the author of the music Alessandro Molinari and some protagonists of what was the morld of 'Spaghetti westerns ‘ the then.
In the documentary Gianfranco Pannone, It evokes the cinematic memory of his childhood. During the documentary research on the golden years of the 'Spaghetti westerns’ meets among others William Spoletini , in arte William Bogart, former stuntman and actor “Roman Rome”. In a rewind time of memory that were William and his closest friends and colleagues trace a common thread youth; while Pannone revives what was the Rome of the sixties, until the days of the protests of '68 also with reference to an old western Italian, “rest”, Charles Lizzani (1967) Pier Paolo Pasollni in the shoes of a skilled gunslinger by appealing to the religious teachings of his teacher, every time you kill an enemy dismisses him uttering the Latin phrase from which the movie title.
William has the idea of creating a new Western the story of three Mexican riders who find themselves, a bit’ stunned, between the tower blocks of contemporary Rome and director, convinced that the idea of William is not entirely unfeasible, Reserve a final surprise.
Pannone told a magazine industry “Today I came to the conclusion that the 'Spaghetti westerns ‘ ltaly are the mirror of the '60s. If the Italian average of thirty years ago was an individualist in search of his redemption, in westerns our house the hero is a loner who tries to make his way in a world of wolves. William dragged me with the enthusiasm of a child in the climate a bit’ loud and boisterous in Rome the years 60; a Rome that had a soul back, a heart. If I realized America in Rome I owe it to him and to his former stuntman friends who participated with enthusiasm to the film '.
When “L’America a Roma” was released in Steve Della Casa wrote salt is a fine work on memory which demonstrates the great potential offered by the oral history of Italian cinema.
The cast of the documentary film and Guglielmo Spoletini, Remo Capitani, Gino Marturano, John Cianfriglia, Oaddi Franco and Gianni Mammatrizio, Paul Magalotti, Peter Berling, Manolo Bolognini, Mary Spoletini.
Projection and meeting with Gianfranco Pannone and others who contributed to the realization of America will be held in Rome 25 June at 19,00 at Cinema Farnese which is one of the few rooms that offer the documentary genre Italian who after the victory in Berlin Fuocoammare Gianfranco Rosi (2016) had its new youth proposing what is then the Italian neo-realism in a different angle.
Of Gianfranco Pannone also we want to see his recent work always oriented to the story of the Italian Company in a form full of love for the beautiful country:
Mondo Za: The story of a changing world that has not yet managed to erase the memory with two protagonists Cesare Zavattini and Bassa Reggiana. Lower Reggiana and Cesare Zavattini. A rich and complex reciprocal relationship, that in this film interweaves past and present, creating a new suspended time through the testimony of four men of different ages and social conditions that help us to understand what has changed and what has remained the same in this land one of them defines 'magic'.
Never mind the Saints - Presented in Rome, thanks to a wide and careful selection of archive materials the documentary offers a journey through Italy, today and in the last century, in moments when we see the popular devotion with processions and festivities dedicated to the saints, the Passion of Christ and the Madonna.
The smallest army in the world – The Swiss Guard of the Pope Francesco times: Presented in Venice, armed with swords and halberds, dressed in yellow uniforms, red and blue from puffed sleeves, to which are applied colorful stripes and loose (sewn only at the two ends), Swiss guards seem to come straight from a painting by Raphael. And in the Renaissance painter Mature, This small army intended to protect the Pope and the papal palace is born and takes action.
On Volcano – Vesuvius and Naples in the interchangeable roles of victim and perpetrator, Gianfranco Pannone in the documentary. Three stories to tell about the relationship between Vesuvius and the humanity that populates its slopes. That of Mary and his company nursery at the foot of a villa Vesuvius, Matteo's, artist who paints using the lava of the volcano, Yole, neo-melodic singer whose devotion to the Virgin borders on idolatry.
And last but not least With Ugo, tribute to Master Hugh Gregory also presented in Venice on the occasion of the award to the Dean of Italian documentary filmmakers.