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A German Day will take place during the first edition of RomeFilmFest. On Tuesday October 17, five new German films will be presented to international buyers in a movie theatre in the Via Veneto area. In the evening, an official reception will inaugurate the event. On that very same day, several German movies will be screened as a part of the official program of the Festa. And there’s more. German film projects will be presented at the New Cinema Network, the RomeFilmFest section devoted to young filmmakers who will thus have the chance of presenting a new project to distributors…
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Dino Risi (A difficult life, Weekend – Italian style, 15 from Rome, Scent of a woman) describes the scene shot in Civitavecchia for the movie The easy life: “The two characters make a stop close to the harbour to treat themselves to a fish soup. The spot has changed a lot. The choice of Civitavecchia was not accidental at all. In fact it was part of the commitment to showing the actual places where the characters would stop on their trip from Rome to Versilia along the Aurelia road. In the movies nothing’s left to chance, everything’s written down in…
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A joint collaboration between the Biennial of Venice and the Musica per Roma Foundation, which regards essentially the Venice Film Festival and RomeFilmFest, has been announced today at a press conference held at the Foreign Press Association in Italy’s Main Office in Rome. In attendance were Francesco Rutelli, Minister for Cultural Affairs; Davide Croff, President of the Biennial of Venice, and Goffredo Bettini, President of the Musica per Roma Foundation. Both Croff and Bettini underlined that this agreement cannot but enrich the Italian as well as international film scene, even though they did not go into details regarding the risks…
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Franco Interlenghi, born in Rome in 1931, has spent a lifetime performing in the squares and streets of the Italian capital, starting from his debut when he was just 14 years old in De Sica’s Shoeshine (Sciuscià, released in 1946), to Michele Placido’s Crime novel (Romanzo criminale, 2005). “Ostia in the 50’s was exactly the way Luciano Emmer depicts it in Sunday in August (Una domenica d’agosto, 1950). The movie almost seems a documentary of those days. Most of the actors were not professionals at all, simply ordinary people, like those who actually went to Ostia every Sunday to go…
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“In the 50’s, here you could run into Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante, but also lots of young painters and moviemakers. We all shared a very heady cultural experience which I can only fully appreciate as time goes by.” Pirro, Italian scriptwriter who has twice been awarded the Oscar for Best Script, for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto) and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il giardino dei Finzi Contini), compares the golden years of the 50’s with the present times, and the launching of new projects related to…