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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…

There was an unusual red carpet event at the festival today. At 10 am, director Luc Besson, accompanied by 150 young jurors of the Alice nella città section, walked down the carpet towards the Sala Sinopoli, to a screening of the premiere of the Making Of and trailers of Besson’s tenth film, Arthur et le Minimoys, which will be released throughout the world at Christmas and in Italy next February.Along with the screening of this exclusive video material, journalist Federico Taddia read passages from Besson´s book, published in Italy under the title Arthur e il popolo dei Minimei, upon which…

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There will be an additional press screening of the Premiére section film The Namesake by Mira Nair at 3 pm in the Sala Santa Cecilia. The other press screenings of The Namesake remain the same: at 6:30 pm and 9:30 pm in the Sala Metropolitan 2.  

The fifth Cinema2006 competition title, Wu Qingyuan – The Go Master by Tian Zhuangzhuang, was presented in the Teatro Studio. The film tells the story of Wu Qingyuan, the most important player in the world of the ancient game of Go.Through Wu’s life, the director presents a touching and poetic portrait of over 50 years of Japanese history, from the political and racial conflicts with China during WWII, to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to the country’s present-day opening towards the west.“I think that Wu’s story is very moving. He is still alive and has dedicated his whole life…

They were expecting a star and instead got the militant environmentalist. Apart from a delay of over one hour, Leonardo DiCaprio truly displayed little celebrity behaviour. Wearing jeans and running shoes, he arrived in the Teatro di Tor Bella Monaca, in the eponymous neighbourhood on the outskirts of Rome, relaxed and looking like someone out on a Sunday afternoon stroll. He stopped briefly along the long red carpet to the theatre, to sign a few autographs. Behind the barricades, the young female fans screamed with joy, yet there was little of the hysteria that usually accompanies these kinds of events.…