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BORIS 4, the hotly-awaited cult comedy series written and directed by Giacomo Ciarrapico and Luca Vendruscolo, has its premiere in Rome as a co-production between the Rome Film Fest and Alice nella città. Tomorrow, Sunday, October 23rd, Fest badgeholders can catch the first two episodes of the series, while audiences can see it the next day, when on Monday, October 24th, the cast will be introducing the screening at both the Sala Sinopoli at the dell’Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone (at 7:30pm) and at the Auditorium Conciliazione (at 9.30pm).
On Sunday, October 23rd, at 3:30pm, the Sala Sinopoli hosts the screening of Er gol de Turone era bono. A painful and still open wound, Turone’s goal is the subject of this documentary by Francesco Miccichè and Lorenzo Rossi Espagnet, where archival footage and heated debates from the time are mixed with new interviews with Turone, Bergamo and Sancini, as well as Prandelli, Marocchino, Pruzzo, Conti, etc., to try and answer for once and for all: should Turone’s goal have been allowed?
At 9pm in the Sala Sinopoli, the premiere to catch is Forever Young by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. The director’s sixth feature film mixes the theatre of life with the physicality and creativity of the theatrical art. Delving into her own personal memories, the director returns
to her beginnings as an actress in the 1980s at the modern and experimental Amandiers acting school in Nanterre, founded by Patrice Chéreau (Louis Garrel) and Pierre Romans (Micha Lescot). After the film, there will be a screening of Des Amandiers aux Amandiers by Karine Silla Perez and Stéphane Milon.
For the History of Cinema section, the Casa del Cinema will host, in the Sala Cinecittà at 11am, the short film I vestiti dei sogni by Luan Amelio, a tribute to the grand tradition of Italian film costume design and its maestro Piero Tosi, followed by Claudia by Franck Saint-Cast, in which two actors perform an interview with Claudia Cardinale conducted by Alberto Moravia, before they meet with the real Claudia. The latter documentary will be introduced by the director. At 2:30pm, the programme wraps up with the restored versions of To Us! by Umberto Paradisi, the official film made for the Fascist Party on the March on Rome on October 28th, 1922, which swept Mussolini to power. Following the screening, Treni – Partenza is a sampling (of the same length as the Lumière programmes, thirty minutes) of the most iconic departure scenes in the history of cinema, a selection made for the exhibition “La memoria delle stazioni” organized by the Luce Cinecittà Archives in collaboration with the Fondazione FS Italiane and curated by Cinecittà president Chiara Sbarigia.
The Sala Kodak at the Casa del Cinema will hold repeat screenings of Virna Lisi – La donna che rinunciò a Hollywood by Fabrizio Corallo at 2:45pm, La Grande bouffe by Marco Ferreri at 4:30pm, The Glass Menagerie by Paul Newman at 7pm, and C’era una volta il Cinema Azzurro Scipioni by Lorenzo Negri at 9:30pm.
On the last day of the Fest, two repeat screenings will be held of two of the winning films from the 17th edition: at 6:30pm in the Sala Sinopoli, January by Viesturs Kairišs, Best Film in the Progressive Cinema Competition; and at 10;30pm, at the MAXXI, Causeway by Lila Neugebauer, Best First Feature BNL BNP Paribas.
And Sunday is the last Fest screening at Rebibbia’s New Prison for inmate and non-inmate audiences alike, in the new Sala Cinema “Enrico Maria Salerno”: at 3:30pm, the film to catch is Er gol de Turone era bono.
At the Cinema Giulio Cesare, festgoers can see the following titles: in sala 1, Corsage (4pm); Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush (6:30pm), and Good Morning Tel Aviv (9:30pm); in sala 3, Er gol de Turone era bono (4:30pm), One Day at a Time (7pm), and Forever Young (9:30pm); while in sala 5, L’universo di Luigi Ghirri (3:30pm), Er gol de Turone era bono (5:30pm), ABOrismi, ritratti e autoritratto and Bice Lazzari – Il Ritmo e l’ossessione (7:30pm), and Forever Young (10pm). Lastly, in sala 7, audiences can catch The Super 8 Years at 4pm and 9:30 pm, and Jane Campion, the Cinema Woman at 6:30pm.
The Fest programme at Scena wraps up on Sunday with Er gol de Turone era bono (6:30pm) and In A Land That No Longer Exists (9pm).
Two of Rome’s cinemas are involved in the collaboration with AGIS and ANEC. The Ferrero Cinema Adriano hosts Er gol de Turone era bono (3:30pm), La stranezza (6pm), and Via Argine 310 (8:30pm), while Stardust is screening Kill Me If You Can (5pm), the first three episodes of I Am Lillo (9pm), and One Day at a Time (9pm).
The Nuovo Cinema Sacher continues its showcase of Fest films, with Polanski, Horowitz. Hometown at 4:30pm and Klondike at 6:15pm on Sunday.
Moreover, the program spills over to Monday the 24th and Tuesday the 25th, when the following films will be screened: on Monday, Jane Campion, the Cinema Woman at 4pm,
SHTTL at 6pm, and Forever Young at 9pm, while on Tuesday, In A Land That No Longer Exists at 4pm, All That Breathes at 6pm, and The Hummingbird at 9pm.
The Fest’s collaboration with Rome’s independent bookshops comes to a close with two screenings: the first, at 5pm on Sunday the 23rd, is La Grande bouffe by Marco Ferreri at the Libreria Overlook, while the second, at the same time on Friday, October 28th, is La freccia azzurra at the Libreria A tutto libro.
