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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.…

A scene from Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore as a tribute to Ellen Burstyn, who was in the theatre; the infamous sequence from Taxi Driver in which De Niro prepares for the shooting; from Goodfellas when the characters cook dinner in their prison cell; Jack Lamotta’s defeat in Raging Bull; the scene in which Leonardo DiCaprio crashes with his plane in The Aviator; and, to top it all off, a scene from Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, the first film to be restored by the RomeFilmFest and the Film Foundation, a non-profit US organisation that restores…

Directors (the great ones who made Italian film history), politicians, entertainment industry folks and regular citizens gathered to pay homage to Gillo Pontecorvo and embrace his relatives in the funeral chamber set up in the Campidoglio. First among them was President Giorgio Napolitano, who paid his respects to the director in private. Then, slowly, others entered: friends and strangers who loved the man for his work.“He made few films” said Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, “but it matters little how few films one makes, books one writes or paintings one paints. Pontecorvo made film history with five films”. Other politicians present…

President of the Republic Giorgio Napoletano will attend tonight’s RomeFilmFest screening of the restored copy of Rome, Open City by Roberto Rossellini, at 8:30 pm at the Teatro Studio of the Auditorium, announced festival president Goffredo Bettini. Rome, Open City is once again available to audiences in all its glory thanks to a restoration by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in collaboration with the Venice Biennale and the RomeFilmFest. President Napoletano, who with his presence at the screening intends to demonstrate his great commitment to Italian cinema, will close a day of celebrations dedicated to one of the greatest film…

Members of the prestigious Actors Studio – at which some of the greatest New York film and theatre actors have studied – Lee Grant, Martin Landau and Elisabeth Kemp, director of the University Masters Program with which the Actors Studio supports itself financially (a free activity for both the actors and mediators) spoke to RomeFilmFest audiences about their approach to the workshop and how their lives changed after their initial experiences.For Grant, the Actors Studio is still the only opportunity for amateur and professional actors to explore and improve their craft. Grant’s work at the workshop led to her nomination…