Events in Cinema Massimo
- From the 19th to the 24th November 2010
- The Living differently: zombies, vampires, mummies, ghosts festival continues at Cinema Massimo with a selection of cult films on vampires.
The Living differently: zombies, vampires, mummies, ghosts festival, organised by the National Cinema Museum to coincide with the large exhibition planned and directed by Peppino Ortoleva at the Mole Antonelliana until the 9th of January 2011, continues in November. The fourth and final part of the festival will take place from the 19th to the 24th of November 2010 at Cinema Massimo’s Screen Three with a programme featuring rare, cult films about vampires.
- 22 and 23 November 2010, at 4 p.m. and 8.30 p.m
- The restored copy of Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita at the National Cinema Museum
Following its screening at the Rome International Film Festival, the restored copy of the film La Dolce Vita – produced to mark the 50th anniversary of Fellini’s masterpiece, thanks to the Film Foundation directed by Martin Scorsese – is now being shown in many Italian cities by the Medusa Film distribution company.
Those is Turin can see the film at the Cinema Massimo, Screen Two, the National Cinema Museum’s multiplex cinema, on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2010. Two screenings will be shown on both days, at 4 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. Admission is free.
The restoration was carried out by the Cineteca di Bologna film archive at the L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in partnership with The Film Foundation, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (The Experimental Cinematography Centre)-National Film Archive, Pathé, the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, Mediaset and Medusa Film, Paramount Pictures and Cinecittà Luce. The project was made possible thanks to funding from Gucci and The Film Foundation.
- 24 November 2010, at 8.45 p.m.
- The National Cinema Museum has acquired the archive of the journal Filmcritica. To mark the occasion, its director, Edoardo Bruno, presents the book Senso come rischio: 60 anni di Filmcritica (The risk of sense: 60 years of Filmcritica)
The National Cinema Museum has acquired the archive of Filmcritica, one of the most long-lived journals in Italy, founded in 1950 by its current director, Edoardo Bruno, and Umberto Barbaro, Galvano Della Volpe and Roberto Rossellini.
The archive’s acquisition will be officially celebrated with an evening at the Cinema Massimo. On Wednesday the 24th of November 2010 at 8.30 p.m., in Screen 3, Edoardo Bruno will present the book Senso come rischio: 60 anni di Filmcritica, by Alessandro Cappabianca, Lorenzo Esposito, Bruno Roberti and Daniela Turco, with a preface by Edoardo Bruno, published by Editore Le Mani, Genoa. The book will be on sale in the cinema foyer at €18. At the end of the presentation, Filmcritica’s director will introduce Carl Theodor Dreyer’s film Vampyr to the public. Admission: 5.50/4.00/3.00 euros