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The extraordinary new film by Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans, will be presented in its Italian preview screening as part of the programme of the Rome Film Fest and Alice nella città. The highly anticipated work by the American filmmaker, one of the most influential auteurs in cinema, will be screened for the public tomorrow, Wednesday October 19th at 8:30 pm in Sala Sinopoli of the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone and at 9 pm at the Auditorium Conciliazione.
At 9:30 pm in Sala Petrassi, for the Grand Public section, the audience is invited to see the screening of Rheingold by Fatih Akin. In 2010, in Iraq, three men are thrown off a truck, imprisoned, and brutally tortured. They are wanted for robbing a cargo of gold in Germany.
The Dead Remain With Their Mouth Open by Fabrizio Ferraro, the second Italian film in the Progressive Cinema Competition, will be screened at 3:30 pm in the Teatro Studio Gianni Borgna. A director and screenwriter with a background in film sciences and the philosophy of language, Ferraro chooses black and white to take us back into history.
January by Viesturs Kairiss (at 6:30 pm Sala Petrassi) is set in January 1991 when the Soviet tanks invaded Latvia to reverse Latvia’s independence, declared on May 4th of the previous year.
Three films from the Freestyle section are on the day’s schedule. Jazz Set by Steve Della Casa and Caterina Taricano will be presented at 6 pm in the Teatro Studio Gianni Borgna: the film features some of the most beautiful songs by Italian singer-songwriters performed by the finest Italian musicians.
At 9 pm, the same theatre will be the venue for the screening of Lola by Andrew Legge. With very clever editing work and “dressing up” of the period footage on the part of the director and screenwriter Andrew Legge, at his feature film debut, as well as DoP Oona Menges (the daughter of Chris Menges) and editor Colin Campbell, the film, part dystopian comedy, part spy drama, gives new meaning to the mockumentary.
At 8:30 pm at the MAXXI, the screening will feature Roma isola aperta by Monkeys VideoLab (Alessio Rucchetta, Valerio Sammartino e Simone Nazzaro Valente), who together with the creators Raffaella Frascarelli and Sabrina Vedovotto, begin a journey in this film through the studios of Roman artists, who open up to the audience to reflect on social, political and economic themes, and on the relationship between art and daily life.
After a lengthy experience in avant-garde theatre, Mario Martone made his debut on the big screen with Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician: this film will be the focus of the encounter between the Neapolitan director and the audience of the Rome Film Fest, to be held at 4:30 pm in Sala Petrassi. Released in theatres in 1992, the film won many awards including the David di Donatello and the Nastro d’Argento for Best Debut Director and the Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize. There will be a repeat screening of Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician at 6:15 pm in Sala Kodak at the Casa del Cinema.
At 3:30 pm, the MAXXI will host a special encounter dedicated to television broadcasters, as part of the series “Dialogues about the future of Italian cinema”. The guest speakers will include Margherita Amedei (Sky Cinema), Paolo Del Brocco (Rai Cinema), Giampaolo Letta (Medusa Film) and Olivier Père (Arte France Cinéma), in video-conference.
The Istituto di Instruzione Superiore Statale “Cine-Tv Roberto Rosellini” confirms its collaboration with the Fondazione Cinema per Roma. At 5:30 pm at the MAXXI, it will present the documentary made by its teachers and students, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Research, the Associazione Domenico Ricci for the memory of the victims of Via Fani and the Associazione Fratelli Mattei. The docufilm seeks to introduce the new generations to the specificities, the most significant events and the dynamics of the anni di piombo, the Years of Lead. In a journey through the streets of the Capital and encounters with a range of experts who experienced or studied that historical era, three students about to graduate from high school go on a journey through memory, knowledge, awareness, and cultural or emotional growth, collecting the legacy of the past to pass it on to their peers.
There is an ample programme of screenings at the Casa del Cinema. At 6 pm, in Sala Cinecittà, there will be a screening of “Dopoguerra 1920”, an episode from the film Mid-Century Loves by Mario Chiari, followed by Steno by Raffaele Rago, a portrayal of Stefano Vanzina, one of the most prolific directors in Italian cinema.
Little Odessa (1994) is the debut film of the director, screenwriter and producer James Gray, Special Award for Best Director of the Venice International Film Festival. The film will be screened at 9 pm in Sala Cinecittà.
In the same theatre, for the retrospective “Ms. Woodward & Mr. Newman” curated by Mario Sesti, there will screenings of A Fine Madness by Irvin Kershner and Rachel, Rachel by Paul Newman.
The programme of repeat performances in Sala Kodak will feature Il sogno di una cosa by Lorenzo Ferrari Carissimi, the fourth episode in The Last Movie Stars by Ethan Hawke and Duck in Orange Sauce by Luciano Salce.
The programme of repeat performances at the Cinema Giulio Cesare movie theatre begins in Sala 1 at 4 pm with The Dead Remain With Their Mouth Open by Fabrizio Ferraro, followed at 6:30 pm by Jazz Set by Steve Della Casa and Caterina Taricano. Sala 3 will host the screenings of Caravaggio’s Shadow by Michele Placido (at 5 pm) and Lola by Andrew Legge (at 9:30 pm). There is a triple feature in Sala 5 with Lynch/Oz by Alexandre O. Philippe, January by Viesturs Kairisse and Rheingold by Fatih Akin respectively at 4:30 pm, at 7 pm and at 10 pm. Sala 7, finally, at 4 pm will screen Drei Frauen Und Der Krieg by Luzia Schmid.
At Scena, there will be two repeat screenings of films from the Rome Film Fest: As bestas by Rodrigo Sorogoyen (at 6 pm) and La California by Cinzia Bomoll (at 9 pm).
The Teatro Palladium, at 8:30 pm, will screen Alam by Firas Khoury, the film in competition in the Progressive Cinema section.
The programme continues at the Cinema Nuovo Sacher with Ramona by Andrea Bagney at 4:30 pm, La divina cometa by Mimmo Paladino at 6:15 pm and Il Colibrì by Francesca Archibugi at 9 pm.
Thanks to the collaboration with AGIS and ANEC, the Cinema Mignon movie theatre will screen three films: 75 – Biennale Ronconi Venezia by Jacopo Quadri (at 5:30 pm) and Amate Sponde by Egidio Eronico (at 7:15 pm), introduced by the director himself and by the producer Leonardo Baraldi. The evening ends at 9 pm with La divina cometa by Mimmo Paladino.
