TURIN, A CINEMA CITY. A free app for discovering cinema locations
The National Cinema Museum in Turin, the National Cinema Museum Association and izi.TRAVEL present Turin, a cinema city, an app for smartphones which makes it possible to discover the film locations in Turin. The cradle of Italian cinema, Turin hosts the National Cinema Museum inside the symbol of this town, the Mole Antonelliana, among the most important museums in the world for the wealth of its contents, and one of the top 10 most visited museums in Italy, with over 630,000 visitors a year.
Turin, a cinema city is an innovative application - the only one of its kind - dedicated to cinema tourism, in which 20 locations illustrate 24 films which have seen the city centre as a protagonist. A new way for exploring our city, an occasion for discovering unusual corners, observing them from the point of view of the films that were shot there and which have seen some of the most important Italian and international actors and directors starring there.
Through this app, everyone will be able to access online audio-guides or to download content in advance and listen to stories in offline mode, eliminating the costs of data roaming.
The contents may either be read or listened to in Italian and in English, and they will be enriched by set-stills as well as film-clips, plus an interactive map will guide visitors through these landmarks in film history. It will be possible to connect directly with one's social networks, enabling easy sharing of the audio-guides and, therefore, an increased enhancement of the territory. Moreover, once the multimedial guide has been listened to, a review may be left.
Thanks to GPS, geo-location enables one to listen to the right story in the right place.
All tours are accessible from the web site (www.izi.travel) as well as from the izi.TRAVEL app, available free from Appstore, Google Play Store and Windows Phone.
This initiative is part of the National Cinema Museum Digital Museum project, in which free wi-fi and QR coding allow access to multimedial contents for a multi-sensory journey into the world of cinema, thus ensuring a more involved and accessible tour, also thanks to digital captions, audio descriptions, videos in LIS (Italian Signs Language) and the QR codes about accessibility.
“The National Cinema Museum Association (AMNC) - said AMNC President Vittorio Sclaverani - is pleased to collaborate and to make its expertise available to serve the "Turin, a cinema city” project. This new digital application represents a natural development of "Movie on the Road", which has produced a freely distributed paper map in Italian and English since 2013 up to our days and a website (http://movieontheroad.com) with many thematic film tours in Turin and in Piedmont; in recent months, the project has benefited from the valuable advice of Hangar Point at the Piedmont Region. Synergies for the construction of this app have further strengthened the relationship between the National Cinema Museum and the Association, starting from an enhancement of the great film heritage within our territory, in an international perspective which is accessible to everyone thanks to the potential of new technologies.”
“We are very pleased - stated Ginevra Niccolucci, Head of izi.TRAVEL for Italy - to be partners of this initiative, which highlights one of the most important cultural heritages of this beautiful city. izi.TRAVEL is the first multimedial platform dedicated to storytelling which contains thousands of stories about art, culture, archaeology, lifestyle, food and wine. The izi.TRAVEL app allows each traveller to explore the town and cultural sites in an easy, free manner, in complete autonomy, by providing comprehensive multimedial guides with maps, photos, audio and video.”
THE FILMS
A che punto è la notte - Directed by Nanni Loy, with Marcello Mastroianni, Marie Laforet, Max Von Sydow, Alessandro Haber, Ennio Fantastichini, Italy, 1994, 208’
Benvenuto Presidente! - Directed by Riccardo Milani, with Claudio Bisio, Kasia Smutniak, Omero Antonutti, Remo Girone, Massimo Popolizio, Italy, 2013, 100’
Così ridevano - Directed by Gianni Amelio, with Enrico Lo Verso, Fabrizio Gifuni, Francesco Giuffrida, Rosaria Danzè, Renato Liprandi, Italy, 1998, 124’
Dopo mezzanotte - Directed by Davide Ferrario, with Giorgio Pasotti, Francesca Inaudi, Fabio Troiano, Francesca Picozza, Silvio Orlando (narrating voice), Italy, 2004, 92’
War and peace - Directed by King Vidor, with Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom, Italy/ USA, 1956, 240’
Hannah and her sisters - Directed by Woody Allen, with Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, Michael Caine, Dianne Wiest, USA, 1986, 106’
Heaven - Directed by Tom Tykwer, with Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Mattia Sbragia, Remo Girone, Alberto Di Stasio, Germany/Italy/ USA/France/United Kingdom, 2002, 97’
I due carabinieri - Directed by Carlo Verdone, with Enrico Montesano, Carlo Verdone, Massimo Boldi, Paola Onofri, John Steiner, Italy, 1984, 120’
I giorni dell’abbandono - Directed by Roberto Faenza, with Margherita Buy, Luca Zingaretti, Goran Bregovic, Alessia Goria, Gea Lionello
The Emperor’s new clothes - Directed by Alan Taylor, with Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny, Tom Watson, Hugh Bonneville, Great Britain / Germany / Italy, 2001, 105’
Il divo - Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, with Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti, Flavio Bucci, Carlo Buccirosso, Italy, 2008, 110’
Il giorno in più - Directed by Massimo Venier, with Fabio Volo, Isabella Ragonese, Pietro Ragusa, Stefania Sandrelli, Roberto Citran, Italy, 2001, 111’
Il sospetto - Directed by Francesco Maselli, with Gianmaria Volonté, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, Gabriele Lavia, Felice Andreasi, Italy, 1975, 111’
La donna della domenica - Directed by Luigi Comencini, with Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean Louis Trintignant, Aldo Reggiani, Maria Teresa Albani, Italy/France, 1975, 105’
La seconda volta - Directed by Mimmo Calopresti, with Nanni Moretti, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria Milillo, Marina Confalone, Orsetta De Rossi, Italy, 1995, 80’
Le amiche - Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, with Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux, Franco Fabrizi, Italy, 1955, 106’
Mimì metallurgico ferito nell’onore - Directed by Lina Wertmüller, with Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Agostina Belli, Livia Giampalmo, Luigi Diberti, Italy, 1972, 125’
Mio fratello è figlio unico - Directed by Daniele Luchetti, with Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Luca Zingaretti, Angela Finocchiaro, Anna Bonaiuto, Italy, 2007, 100’
Profondo rosso - Directed by Dario Argento, with David Hemmings, Gabriele Lavia, Daria Nicolodi, Glauco Mauri, Eros Pagni, Italy, 1975, Italy, 127’
Stanno tutti bene - Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, with Marcello Mastroianni, Valeria Cavalli, Marino Cenna, Norma Martelli, Roberto Nobili, Italy/France, 1990, 120’
The Italian Job - Directed by Peter Collinson, with Micheal Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Rossano Brazzi, Great Britain, 1969, 95’
Tutti giù per terra - Directed by Davide Ferrario, with Valerio Mastrandrea, Carlo Monni, Benedetta Mazzini, Caterina Caselli, Tommaso Ragno, Italy, 1996, 91’
Venuto al mondo - Directed by Sergio Castellitto, with Penelope Cruz, Emile Hirsch, Adnan Haskovic, Saadet Aksoy, Pietro Castellitto, Italy/Spain/Croatia, 2012, 127’
Vincere - Directed by Marco Bellocchio, with Filippo Timi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Italy/France, 2009, 128’