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“I want to speak in Italian since I’m in Rome. I’m very proud of Alatriste and proud, above all, of representing Spanish cinema: Alatriste is an excellent example of what it has to offer today. Agustìn Dìaz Yanes has made a classic that will be remembered for a long time and that I personally will remember for the wonderful friendships I made on the set”: thus spoke Viggo Mortensen at the press conference, triggering applause from the journalists.Speaking in perfect Italian, Mortensen, who plays the lead in Augustìn Dìaz Yanes’ Alatriste – which was screened for the press this morning…

As of today, the “last minute” line at the Auditorium´s Box Office will be set for the evening screenings at the Première, Cinema 206 and Extra sections. Even though the ticket sales have been a great success, there are tickets available for many screenings. Tickets are available from 1 pm.   There are still tickets available for various screenings at the RomeFilmFest, starting with the gala evening and the event titles of the Première section. Films include (at the PalaRomaUno): The Hoax by Lasse Hallström, starring Richard Gere, and Alatriste, featuring Viggo Mortensen (both on Monday, October 16); The Namesake…

The screening and press conference for Fu zi – After This Our Exile (in competition in the Cinema2006 section) by master Hong Kong filmmaker Patrick Tam was held in the Sala Teatro Studio. The press conference was attended by the director, actors Aaron Kwok and (the very young) Ng King-To and the two stars, Charlie Young and Kelly Lin. The film’s central theme is the relationship between a man and his son, a strong yet desperate bond that disintegrates when the boy is forced to steal to pay off his father’s debts. They meet up ten years, when many things…

“I read Jhumpa Lahiri’s book in a very unique moment. I was on the plane and had just been at the funeral of a person I considered my second mother. I was anguished at having to bury someone in a land that was not hers. From that, Sooni Taraporevala, the screenwriter, and I started working feverishly,” said director Mira Nair on the beginning of her latest film, The Namesake, which will have its general screening tonight at 10:30 pm in the Première section, in the Auditorium’s Sala Santa Cecilia. It will be released in Italy in the spring.The film tells…

During an informal meeting with journalists after the press screening of Fascisti su Marte on Monday, October 16, the film’s director, Corrado Guzzanti – accompanied by his group of “actor friends” Marco Marzorca, Lillo Petrolo, Irene Ferri and Caterina Guzzanti and Fandango producer Domenico Procacci – spoke on how the film, which is being shown at the RomeFilmFest in the Extra section, came to be.“We didn’t think about making an actual film, it was an idea only for television. Thanks to an intervention by Procacci it then became a film for the cinema. It’s more of an oddity than a…

Robert De Niro will be at the RomeFilmFest this Friday, October 20, to present several sequences from his latest films, announced Tribeca Film Festival directors Jennifer Maguire and Peter Scarlett during a press conference that was also attended by festival president Goffredo Bettini.While presenting an initiative realised together with the Associazione Piazza di Spagna and Trinità dei Monti, Bettini announced that De Niro will be awarded the Steps and Stars prize for Tribeca, which he founded along with Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff. The award was bestowed this year upon the festival for “the extraordinary capacity shown in the five…