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The opening of the film festival last week was extremely successful. We started with the screening of The Job – Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi – 1961). The film drew a wonderful audience that stayed for the post-screening discussion that went around 45 minutes of active questions that showed me how engaged the audience was with the film's message.
I have been waiting for this and the following movie for months. I am thrilled. This is my own root region (partially) and I have the privilege to be in and out of the scene.
Sunday October 13, 2007 Cinemasud continues its path.
Cinemasud is now performing at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, San Diego.
We enter the VIP lounge and start a fight for the food. The buffet is overcrowded, as it’s already 10pm. Hands grabbing us from every side like uncontrollable tentacles, hard to keep away, so I decide to hit the bar and get some wine, leaving Shlomi and Odelia to the food mission.
As part of my visit to Rome's International Film Festival, I figured it only makes sense to pay a visit to the birthplace of Italian cinema - Cinecitta' Studios, It's about 40 minutes from the center of Rome, going through some suburbs that later my guide informed me are not considered great places to hang out. Entrance.
When was the last time you created something with your hands?
“Unlikely Combinations” may be considered one of the most effective recipes to drive engagement in arts.
It’s June, so that means it’s time for Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2013 at New York’s Lincoln Film Society. It’s a fantastic annual festival that brings some of the freshest voices in Italian Cinema, thus breaking the chain for the typical crop of old classics that some Italian cinema fests tend to focus on. Excellent capture of the film essence, the towering family; always worried, always caring.
It’s amazing that a year has just passed and it’s already June and time for Lincoln Center’s excellent series: Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2012. I attended last year and enjoyed the fresh lineup; I reviewed a few. Director Marina Spada during Q&A session.
I was looking forward to this event to be able to have unmediated impressions in real time about one of the most important directors in Italian cinema who started his career in 1965, while living in London with a remarkable masterpiece: I pugni in tasca - Fists in the Pocket.
Just arrived yesterday to charming Taormina, aptly named because it’s perched royally on mount Tauro overlooking mount Etna. The town is not packed as I was initially afraid of but contains a healthy dose of tourists that happily savor the holy trinity: pasta-espresso-ice cream.
June 10-12 starts the famousTaormina Film Fest. Antonioni's L'avventura (The Adventure - 1960) was shot there. If you have other plans for the summer, cafe Pellicola can really take you there now...
For my day 2 in Rome's International Film Festival I picked a documentary film by Sergio Naitza, under the Documentary track out of the competition. We’re all too accustomed to be exposed to the lives of the A-stars like Marcello Mastroianni, and Sophia Loren, I figured the story behind an actor forever in a supporting role could be interesting too. I was not disappointed.
Waiting for first screening of "L'isola dell'angelo caduto" by Carlo Lucarelli @ Rome Film Festival.
It’s that time of the year, an absolute treat. I am obviously talking about the annual Italian Cinema festival, Open Roads, that takes place every June at Lincoln Film Center. It’s a rare opportunity to get access to some of the freshest voices in Italian cinema with veteran as well as new surprises. This year, unfortunately, I was not able to attend all the films I had planned, part of the reason is that some were scheduled midweek during business hours and that was tough – a note for organizers.
