Events at Cinema Massimo

 Cinema Massimo, from 31 August to 15 September, Screen Three

The truth in comedy. Tribute to Mario Monicelli

The National Cinema Museum pays a tribute to the most irreverent of Italian filmmakers with an extensive retrospective named The truth in comedy. Tribute to Mario Monicelli, from Friday 31 August to Saturday 15 September 2012. The retrospective – a project by the National Cinema Museum and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale – will be inaugurated Friday 31 August, at 4 p.m., on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo, with the film screening of Parenti serpenti (Poisonous Relations), a merciless and ironical portrayal of a lower middle-class family from the Abruzzo province. Admission: 6.00/4.00/3.00 euro.

Cinema Massimo, 4 September, Screen Three 

MAGNIFICHE VISIONI (MAGNIFICENT VISIONS): Assault on Precinct 13 by John Carpenter

For MAGNIFICENT VISIONS: The Permanent Festival of Restored Film, the National Cinema Museum presents the film Assault on Precinct 13 by John Carpenter, in the HD digital restoration by Capelight Pictures, Tuesday 4 September 2012, at 8.30 and 22.30 p.m., on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo. Repeat screening Wednesday 5 September, at 4 p.m. Admission: 6.00/4.00/3.00 euro.