Ferretti, Faenza e D’Alatri “professori” a Washington. Dall’11 ottobre l’Italian
Film Fest con Franco Nero, l’omaggio a Mastroianni e 5 film di Faenza
Capri, 2/11/05 – Dante Ferretti, Roberto Faenza e Alessandro D’Alatri, insieme a
Franco Nero, Francesca Lo Schiavo e Maurizio Nichetti, saranno i protagonisti
del “Kimbo Italian-American Cinema Forum” in occasione della quarta edizione di
“Washington, Italia –The Italian Film Fest” in programma dall’11 al 16 ottobre
(www.washingtonitalia.com). La classica manifestazione prodotta dall’Istituto
Capri nel Mondo (in collaborazione con Rai Trade, Cinecittà Holding, Aip-Film
Italia e la Camera di Commercio di Napoli) in concomitanza con la settimana di
conferenze, analisi e festeggiamenti promossa dalla National Italian American
Foundation.
Lezioni giornaliere agli studenti delle università di Georgetown e del Maryland,
confronti con il pubblico in collaborazione con la DC Film Society, la
conferenza stampa del cinema italiano al National Press Club, l’incontro con il
gotha dell’industria cinematografica americana all’Mpa’a, il ricevimento con le
personalità diplomatiche all’Ambasciata Italiana, il gran galà benefico della
Niaf con la partecipazione di tanti artisti italoamericani ma soprattutto la
proiezione gratuita di ben 37 film nella multisala Loews Georgetown Cineplex:
sono questi gli appuntamenti clou della manifestazione che avrà protagonista la
nutrita delegazione artistica italiana di cui fanno parte anche: Gianmarco
Tognazzi, Gaia Bermani Amaral, Lamberto Lambertini, Anna Falchi ed Eleonora
Brigliadori
Washington, Italia 2005 sarà dedicata a Marcello Mastroianni e ad illustrarne il
talento sarà il “professore” Roberto Faenza che lo diresse in “Sostiene
Pereira”, uno tra gli ultimi film del grande arista, incluso nella speciale
retrospettiva di cinque opere dedicate al suo mito.
Sul fronte del cinema contemporaneo, lo stesso Faenza sarà al centro di
un’altrettanto interessante omaggio con la visione di ben altri quattro film
incluso “I giorni dell’abbandono” (campione d’incassi ai botteghini italiani,
dopo il debutto veneziano, che proprio a Washington debutterà sul territorio
americano).
Ad inaugurare la manifestazione sarà l’anteprima di “Forever Blues” film
interpretato, diretto e prodotto dall’altrettanto leggendario attore Franco Nero
di cui Russell Crowe ha detto alla recente Mostra di Venezia “E’ il mio mito;
l’attore che ha ispirato la mia carriera”.
HOT NEW ITALIAN STAR HIGHLIGHTS
FILM FESTIVAL IN WASHINGTON, D.C., OCTOBER 11-16
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Appearances by hot new Italian heartthrob Raoul Bova, who is coming to an ABC television sitcom in January after winning international fans in Under the Tuscan Sun, highlight an Italian film festival that will bring cinema leaders from both sides of the camera to Washington DC, October 11-16, 2005.
Nearly twenty new films will be shown during the 4th Annual Washington, Italia – the Italian Film Fest to be held mainly at Loews Cineplex in Georgetown.
Films of Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni also will be highlighted as actor Armand Assante (The Mambo Kings, Gotti) will be present to introduce their work and describe its worldwide influence.
“The festival will bring together directors, actors, the best new Italian productions, and classic films for six days of screenings, discussions and premieres in order to promote the new Italian cinema and renew interest in its great masters,” said Pascal Vicedomini, the festival’s founder and producer.
In addition to the screenings, festival participants will hold seminar sessions with students at leading universities in the nation’s capital and meetings aimed at increasing the distribution of Italian films in the United States.
Bova will hit the American sit-com schedule on ABC as a boy-toy husband in “What About Brian?” The comedy, presently scheduled for Monday nights at 10 p.m. EST following the Monday Night Football season, revolves around plots to find a wife for the brother-in-law of Bova’s character, Angelo.
Bova played Marcello, the young café owner with whom Diane Lane’s character in Under the Tuscan Sun has a romance. He has been described by some as the new Mastroianni. Bova will be scheduled for personal appearances during the festival.
Festival-goers can compare Loren and Mastroianni, as well as both sides of matrimony, by attending Divorce-Italian Style (1961), and Marriage Italian-Style (1964). Other classic Loren films and her recent television film directed by the legendary Lina Wertmuller also will be featured.
The off-screen list of notables to be in attendance includes Roberto Faenza (Jonah Who Lived in the Whale), one of the finest contemporary directors in Italy. His 2005 film about a priest fighting the Sicilian Mafia, Alla luce del sole, is already winning awards.
The film festival will be held in conjunction with the National Italian American Foundation gala October 15 at the Washington Hilton Hotel. The foundation is a cosponsor of Washington, Italia, which is organized by Capri in the World Institute in collaboration with Italian film companies Cinecittá Holding and RAI Trade.
Other organizations active in the festival include the Lazio Region of Italy, Promuovi Italia, the Chamber of Commerce-City of Naples, and the Italian Ministries for Italians in the World and for Cultural Assets and Activities.
For further information, visit
www.washingtonitalia.com , or call the festival’s DC area contact at 202-237-2080.
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ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo
Schiavo – Oscar Winners for Their Work in The Aviator – to Be Spotlighted at 2005
Italian Film Festival in Washington, DC;
Franco Nero Premieres His Newest
Film
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two Oscar
winners for their work on Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, Dante Ferretti and
Francesca Lo Schiavo, will be spotlighted at an upcoming Italian film festival
that also will present the world premiere of actor Franco Nero’s newest film, Forever
Blues.
Ferretti, winner of last winter’s Academy Award for art direction, and Lo
Schiavo, whose Oscar is for set decoration, are among a star-studded array of
Italian and Italian-American cinema leaders who will attend the 4th
Annual Washington, Italia – The Italian Film Festival October 11-16 in
Washington, D.C. All screenings of films are free and open to the public on a
first-come, first-seated basis.
Ferretti has just completed Brian De Palma’s latest film, The Black Dahlia, a true story about a
gruesome Hollywood murder set in the 1940s, scheduled for release in 2006. He
also was president of the jury at the just-completed Venice Film Festival.
Ferretti and Lo Schiavo are to introduce Martin Scorsese’s My Voyage to Italy on October 15 at 11
a.m. at Loews Cineplex.
Nero, known to American
audiences as Sir Lancelot, the biblical Abel, and a lonely gunfighter in a
spaghetti western, will showcase his directing and writing talents with the
premiere of Forever Blues, the
poignant story of an autistic boy and an old bluesman.
Nero will be present for the
premiere at the opening of the festival designed to promote ‘’Made in Italy’’
movies in the United States. He also is slated for other appearances during the
festival. Forever Blues will be shown
at 7 p.m. Tuesday Oct. 11 and again at 11 p.m. Saturday Oct. 15 at Loews
Cineplex in Georgetown.
Nero says the film is ``driven by my lifelong passion for Blues as well
as my passion and values for helping our disadvantaged youth.’’ He adds that it
``is particularly relevant in today’s world of tragedy and
uncertainty.’’
Nero debuts as a director with
Forever Blues as well as co-writing
and starring in it. His many past acting roles have included Lancelot in Joshua
Logan’s Camelot, Abel in John Huston’s The Bible and the
gunfighter dragging a coffin in Sergio Corbucci’s Django.
The movie is among about 20 new
films from the country that gave us La Dolce Vita and Two
Women. Festival promoters hope some of the new offerings will become as
popular in America as were those two classics.
The festival ``forms the ideal
bridge between Italy and the United States of actors, directors, producers and
crafts leaders,’’ said Pascal Vicedomini, founder and producer of the
festival.
Most screenings will be held at
the Loews Cineplex in Georgetown, with discussions, meetings, receptions and
other social events at Georgetown University, The University of Maryland, the
Washington Hilton, the Italian Embassy and Café
Milano.
Supporting actor Frank
Pellegrino and producer, writer and director Kevin Jordan will attend the
premiere of their new film, Brooklyn
Lobster, on October 13 at 9 p.m. at Loews.
Films of Sophia Loren and the
late Marcello Mastroianni also will be featured, with commentary on their work
and its significance in movie history.
The film festival is being held in
conjunction with the National Italian American Foundation gala October 15 at the
Washington Hilton Hotel. The
foundation is a cosponsor of Washington, Italia, which is organized by Capri in
the World Institute in collaboration with Italian film companies Cinecittá
Holding and RAI Trade.
Other organizations active in the
festival include the Lazio Region of Italy, Promuovi Italia, the Chamber of
Commerce-City of Naples, and the Italian Ministries for Italians in the World and for Cultural
Assets and Activities.
For further information, visit
www.washingtonitalia.com, or call the
festival’s DC area contact at 202-237-2080. ##
WASHINGTON,
ITALIA 2005
Loews Georgetown Cineplex,
3111 K Street, NW, Wash., DC
All admissions are free.
First-come, first-seated basis.
OFFICIAL
SCREENINGS PROGRAM
Tuesday October
11
TIME
FILM
DIRECTOR
12.30 pm
Divorce - Italian
Style
Pietro Germi
104’
3 pm
Honolulu Baby
Maurizio Nichetti
91’
5 pm
Jonah Who Lived in the Whale
Roberto Faenza
100’
Introduction to film by the Director
7 pm
Forever Blues
Franco Nero
90’
Introduction to film by the Director and Actor
9 pm
The Fever
Alessandro D’Alatri
108’
Introduction to film by the Director
11 pm
Facing Windows
Ferzan Ozpetek
106’
Wednesday October
12
TIME
FILM
DIRECTOR
1 pm
A Special Day
Ettore Scola
110’
3 pm
If By Chance
Alessandro D’Alatri
114’
Introduction to film by the Director
5 pm
Now and Forever
Vincenzo Verdecchi
108’
7 pm
The Soul Keeper
Roberto Faenza
90’
Introduction to film by the
Director
9 pm
The Sleeping Wife
Silvano Agosti
83’
Introduction to film by actors Franco Nero and Eleonora
Brigliadori
11 pm
But Forever in My Mind
Gabriele Muccino
88’
Thursday October
13
TIME
FILM
DIRECTOR
12.30 pm
Bell' Antonio
Mauro Bolognini
105’
2.30 pm
One Man Up
Paolo Sorrentino
140’
5 pm
One Last Kiss
Gabriele Muccino
115’
7 pm
The Days of Abandonment
Roberto Faenza
96’
Introduction to film by the Director
9 pm
Brooklyn Lobster
Kevin Jordan
90’
Introduction to film by the Director
11 pm
Eden
Fabio Bonzi
99’
Friday October 14
TIME
FILM
DIRECTOR
1 pm
Marriage
Italian-Style
Vittorio De Sica
102’
3 pm
Cecenia (Tblisi, Antonio Russo October16, 2000) Leonardo Giuliano
90’
Introduction to film by actor Gianmarco
Tognazzi
5 pm
Sorry You Can’t Get Through
Genovese e Miniero
98’
Introduction to film by producer and actress
Anna Falchi
7.00 pm
Heaven and Earth
Luca Mazzieri
90’
Introduction to film by actor Gianmarco
Tognazzi
9.00 pm
Come Into The Light
Roberto Faenza
89’
Introduction to film by the
Director
11 pm
The Clan
Christian De Sica
95’
Saturday October
15
TIME
FILM
DIRECTOR
11 am
My Voyage to Italy
Martin Scorsese
246’
Introduction to film by 2005 Oscar winners
Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
2.30 pm
Special Screening Washington
Hilton Hotel
Francesca and
Nunziata
Lina Wertmuller
125’
3.30 pm
Under and Over the Bridge
Alberto Bassetti
81’
Introduction to film by producer Isabel
Russinova
5 pm
Fire on My Heart
Lamberto Lambertini 100’
Introduction to film by the Director
7 pm
Sacred Heart
Ferzan Ozpetek
117’
Introduction to film by the
Director
9 pm
Private
Saverio Costanzo
11 pm
Forever Blues
Franco Nero
90’
Introduction to film by the Director and Actor
Sunday October 16
TIME
FILM
DIRECTOR
11 am
Honolulu Baby
Maurizio Nichetti
91’
Introduction to film by the Director
1 pm
Pane, Amore e Fantasia
Luigi Comencini
90’
3 pm
So When Are The Girls Coming?
Pupi Avati
146’
5.30 pm
The Consequences of
Love
Paolo Sorrentino
100’
7 pm
Musikanten
Franco Battiato
90’
9 pm
According to Pereira
Roberto Faenza
104’
11 pm
Quo Vadis, Baby?
Gabriele Salvatores
108’
The
schedule of films is subject to change.
We suggest that you
double-check
the schedule daily.
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