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Of the many new films of the Extra section of the RomeFilmFest, one that stands out in particular is the small, surprising Italian film La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar, the debut film by Giuseppe Gagliardi, a young director of short films, documentaries and videos who made a name for himself with Peperoni, winner of the Silver Sacher Award of the festival directed by Nanni Moretti. The film was inspired by a true event: the life of Tony Vilar, one of South America’s most popular post-war singers, who became renowned in Latin America as an Italian star of melodic songs…

Quelli che vanno (Those Who Go). A mother, an actress by profession, who is always travelling. She avoids her brother, a restless provincial. Someone is waiting for them, before making important decisions that regard their lives. Quelli che restano (Those Who Stay). An old man plays the flute in a tree, times “freezes” and seems to disappear. Marco Bellocchio and Bernardo Bertolucci held a discussion and debate today, presented by Mario Sesti, on Sorelle and Histoire d´eaux. The first is a family saga made up of three episodes of the same story, shot in three different years and made together…

A film on the life of the legendary producer is scheduled for Saturday, October 21, at 9 pm in the Sala Teatro Studio.Dino, un amore per il cinema by Maria Grazia Fantasia is an intimate portrait of celebrated producer Dino De Laurentiis, filmed in Prague at the Barrandov Studios during the shooting of his latest film, Young Hannibal: Behind the Mask, directed by Peter Webber, which is scheduled to be released in the US in early 2007. The film includes the first, exclusive images of what De Laurentiis calls his “baby”, along with the reasons that compelled the producer to make…

“In a country in which money has become all-important, such as Italy, one of the things that has been lost is femininity, woman’s value. The character of Elodie, played by Laura Chiatti, offends me. Those of us who were teenagers in the 70s were a lot freer, I think that serious steps backwards have been taken in this regard,” said director Francesca Comencini at the presentation of A casa nostra, one of the Italian films in competition in the Cinema 2006 section, which will have its general screening tonight at 7:30 pm at the Sala Sinopoli.The entire film revolves around…

Pupo and Luca Ward, two of the voices behind the animated film Over the Hedge, the out-of-competition film in the Alice nella città section, speak about their “roles”.“Hammy is lot like me,” said Enzo Ghinazzi, who goes by the artistic name of Pupo and provides the voice of the animal with eating problems. “I have a stressful relationship with food, I’m always starving, and can’t eat… because I can’t grow anymore!”. Sarcastic in his answers, Pupo stated how animated films are the latest resource for educating children on how to eat well: “It is a truly education film”.The Italian singer…

Eighty-four minutes of unrelenting irony, both coarse and sophisticated, base and intelligent; a frenzy of the anarchical and surreal; a barrage of politically incorrect jokes fired against everyone and everything. What begins as a parody of a Kusturica film to end like one of John Waters’ trash comedies. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, the highly anticipated mockumentary by Larry Charles and Sacha Baron Cohen (a.k.a. the infamous Ali G) has finally arrived at the RomeFilmFest.Borat is a Kazakh journalist who travels, together with his producer, to the US in order to make a…

Muoiono soltanto gli… by Margherita Ferrandino and Giovanni Veronesi was presented in the Auditorium’s Teatro Studio in a entertaining encounter with the great director Mario Monicelli, who is the heart of the 36-minute comedy and in which he laughs, jokes, reminisces about his work and speaks of latest film, his women and death. Intimate interviews with the director are alternated in the film by more significant scenes from his films, from The Great War to Big Deal on Madonna Street, from My Friends to Girl With a Pistol and For Love and Gold. “I’m not afraid of death because only…

“A good agent is one who allows the actor to express his or her abilities and, above all, ambitions”. This, to Harrison Ford, is the secret to a good film agent and manager. This is furthermore what, to Ford, for over 30 years, Patricia McQueeney – the renowned film agent who passed away last year and is now being celebrated by the RomeFilmFest with an award that carries her name – represented.The first recipient of the prize to agents and/or managers is Jim Berkus, president of the United Talent Agency (UTA), who was chosen by the award’s Honorary Committee, made…

After being postponed on account of rain, the “Cinema Goes Fashion” fashion show is underway at the Auditorium’s Villa Romana. The runway featured costumed extras dressed like characters from Italian cinema: from Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita to Nanni Moretti in Dear Diary, from City of Women to Rome, Open City. Even “ladies” and red-cloaked priests abounded. Massimo Ghini and Serena Autieri also performed several scenes from their theatrical rendition of Roman Holiday.Precious fabrics and dresses illuminated by dancing lights were set against the backdrop of the Roman ruins, transformed into a film set under the supervision of Stefano…

Born and Bred (Nacido y criado) is the latest offering on one of the most repeated themes of the films in the Cinema 2006 section: the traumatic relationships between parents and children, a subject already broached in Fu Zi – After This Our Exile, L´aria salata and Armenia. Young Argentinean director Pablo Trapero (born in 1971) presented his fourth feature today, in competition at the RomeFilmFest. The press conference was also attended by actors Federico Esquerro and Martina Gusman, Argentinean producer Rocio Freire-Bernat and Italian producer Rosanna Seregni. Shot between Buenos Aires and Patagonia, the film tells the story of…