The fifth edition of the International Rome Film Festival will be dedicating a broad and variegated tribute to La Dolce Vita. On 30th October at 6:00 p.m., on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Fellini’s masterpiece, the Sala Petrassi of the Auditorium Parco della Musica will be premiering worldwide the digital restoration of La Dolce Vita. The event will have the possibility to enjoy the presence of director Academy Award© Martin Scorsese.

The film was restored by the Cineteca di Bologna at the laboratory L’Immagine Ritrovata in collaboration with The Film Foundation, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale, Pathé, Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, Mediaset and Medusa Film, Paramount Pictures and Cinecittà Luce. The restoration of the film was made possible thanks to the support given by Gucci and The Film Foundation.

The program will also include three important themed exhibitions.

The Cineteca di Bologna will be paying tribute to the great Maestro with an exhibition entitled “Labirinto Fellini”, which will be held at the “MACRO Testaccio, La Pelanda”, and will be open to public from 30th October to 30th January 2011. The exhibition will be composed of two sections: the first, coordinated by Sam Stourdzé, “La grande parata”, will restore the great richness and modernity of Fellini’s work through a selection of rare materials, photographs, clips, and drawings. The other, coordinated by Dante Ferretti and Francesca Loschiavo, will be a sort of magic installation, capable of taking audiences behind Fellini’s sets.

From 28th October to 20th December 2010, the Emeroteca del Polo bibliotecario parlamentare of the Senate’s Library “G. Spadolini” will be holding an exhibition themed on the year 1960 by showing images and articles belonging to its collections. The title of the exhibtion is: “1960. Il mondo ai tempi de La dolce vita” (“1960. The world in the years of La dolce Vita”).  

The exhibition “La Dolce Vita. 1950-1960. Stars and Celebrities in the Italian Fifties”, coordinated by Marco Panella and promoted by the Municipality of Rome, Councillorship of Cultural Policies and Communication – Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali, Artix and Cinecittà Luce, is an event dedicated to the ’50ies and to the stars of those years. The exhibition presents 100 photos, most of which never seen before, selected from Archivio Luce’s archives, and 100 illustrated magazines of the ’50ies. Everything put together tells the audiences the stories of those years through the faces of those characters who became part of the Italians’ imagination. The exhibition will be open until 14th November 2010.

The tribute to La Dolce Vita will be enriched by the retrospective “Le notti pazze de La Dolce Vita” (“The crazy nights of La Dolce Vita”), realized by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale. The aim of the retrospective is to reflect on the films that anticipated the atmospheres of Fellini’s masterpiece. The Sala Trevi will be screening: Le Infedeli directed by Mario Monicelli and Steno, Viale della speranza by Dino Risi, La donna del giorno by Francesco Maselli, Un amore a Roma by Dino Risi, Il principe fusto by Maurizio Arena, Risate di gioia by Mario Monicelli, Via Margutta by Mario Camerini, Divorzio all’italiana by Pietro Germi, La notte by Michelangelo Antonioni, Totò, Peppino e…La Dolce Vita by Sergio Corbucci, Una vita difficile by Dino Risi, La cuccagna by Luciano Salce, Gli Arcangeli by Enzo Battaglia, Io la conoscevo bene by Antonio Pietrangeli, Io, io, io…e gli altri by Alessandro Blasetti, La notte pazza del conigliaccio by Alfredo Angeli, Toby Dammit (Ep. of Tre passi nel delirio) by Federico Fellini, Necropolis by Franco Brocani, Roma bene by Carlo Lizzani, Ingrid sulla strada by Brunello Rondi, I Prosseneti by Brunello Rondi, Molto di più by Mario Lenzi, Night Club by Sergio Corbucci, Paparazzi by Neri Parenti.

Lastly, Antonello Sarno will be proposing a new way of viewing the story and genesis of the film “La Dolce Vita”, thanks to IL BACKSTAGE RITROVATO Dolce Vita Mambo!. By putting together all which was filmed on set, the premieres in Rome and Milan, this documentary results in a puzzle which efficiently and ironically reconstructs the whole period of the production of the film.

USEFUL INFORMATION

“LABIRINTO FELLINI- Invenzioni di Dante Ferretti e Francesca Loschiavo/Mostra La Grande Parata”
Macro Testaccio, La Pelanda (Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4)
From 30th October 2010 to 5th November 2011
Opening for the press:29th October at 5:30 p.m.
Opening days and hours: Tuesday – Sunday, from 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight
Ticket required for admission
Info: www.macro.roma.museum, www.cinetecadibologna.it

“1960-Il Mondo ai tempi de La Dolce Vita”
Palazzo della Minerva (Piazza della Minerva, 38)
From 27th October to 20th December 2010
Opening for press: 27th October at 3:00 p.m. Admission allowed according to the Senate’s procedures of accreditation, with the Festival’s accreditation and an identity card.
Opening days and hours: Monday – Friday, from 10.00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Free entrance
Info: www.senato.it/Mostra 1960

“La Dolce Vita. 1950-1960. Stars and celebrities in the Italian fifties”
Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Mercati di Traiano (Via IV Novembre, 94)
From 4th August to 14th November 2010
Opening days and hours: Tuesday – Sunday, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Ticket required for admission
Info: www.mostradolcevita.it