#RomaFF14 | Films of our lives

Again, this year the artistic director Antonio Monda, the members of the selection committee, Richard Peña, Giovanna Fulvi, Alberto Crespi, Francesco Zippel, Valerio Carocci, and Mario Sesti, Retrospective Curator, will offer the audience a brief anthology of films that influenced their passion for cinema. After western, musicals and noir films, in 2019 they will select their favourite screwball comedies, the sophisticated American comedies from the 1930s and 40s. Each film will be introduced by a conversation featuring directors, actors, and other guests. Furthermore, before each Rome Film Fest screening, a scene from the most famous and beloved screwball comedies of all times will be screened.
 
 
Antonio Monda
THE APARTMENT
by Billy Wilder, United States, 1960, 125’
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLane, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen
 
Alberto Crespi
BRINGING UP BABY
by Howard Hawks, United States, 1938, 102’
Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Ruggles, May Robson, Walter Cartlett
 
Richard Peña
A FISH CALLED WANDA
by Charles Crichton, United Kingdom, 1988, 108’
Cast: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Maria Aitken
 
Francesco Zippel
THE LADY EVE
by Preston Sturges, United States, 1941, 95’
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, Melville Cooper
 
Giovanna Fulvi
LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN
by Ernst Lubitsch, United States, 1925, 79’
Cast: Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lyttel, Ronald Colman, Edward Martindel
 
Valerio Carocci
NINOTCHKA
by Ernst Lubitsch, United States, 1939, 110’
Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Rumann
 
Mario Sesti
REMEMBER THE NIGHT
by Mitchell Leisen, United States, 1940, 94’
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson