#RomaFF15 | 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, noir, screwball comedy, in 2020 it will be the turn of science fiction. 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 science fiction film of all times will be screened.
 
Antonio Monda
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
by Steven Spielberg, United States, 1977, 138’
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey
 
Richard Peña
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
by Robert Wise, United States, 1951, 92’
Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier
 
Mario Sesti
FORBIDDEN PLANET
by Fred M. Wilcox, United States, Japan, 1956, 98’
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson
 
Giovanna Fulvi
GWOEMUL | THE HOST
by Bong Joon Ho, South Korea, 2006, 120’
Cast: Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doo-na, Ko Ah-sung, Scott Wilson
 
Alberto Crespi
ALIENS
By James Cameron, United States, United Kingdom, 1986, 137’
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton
 
Francesco Zippel
FAHRENHEIT 451       
By François Truffaut, United Kingdom, 1966, 112’
Cast: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser, Bee Duffell
 
Valerio Carocci           
STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE
by George Lucas, United States, 1977, 121’
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness