Casa del Cinema, August program with free admission
Theme: Culture
July 27, 2023
From 6 to 31 August, the Ettore Scola Theatre, a large open-air arena immersed in the Villa Borghese park, will host the August Screens.
The program includes a selection of twenty-five sensational films from American, European and Italian cinema that bring dreams, adventures, fears and illusions to the big screen against the backdrop of the summer season.
The program of the Arena will end with a special event – a screening of a documentary Law signed by Flavia Mastrella
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Fondazione Cinema per Roma presents the August program of Casa del Cinema: every day at the Ettore Scola Theatera large open-air arena immersed in the park of Villa Borghese, Yes will conduct a free entrance screening. From 6 to 31 August, starting from 21, the exhibition “Schermi d’August” will be held. a total of twenty-five titles: many lines and themes that the public will be able to follow in this long cycle that will complete the open-air Casa del Cinema program.
There will be classics of American cinema such as Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, the forerunner of all summer blockbusters, Billy Wilder’s When the Wife is on Vacation with Marilyn Monroe in her most iconic scene, Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief, which makes a film between comedy and thriller in the midst of Côte d’Azur, as well as the main “Roman Holiday” by William Wyler and “Singing in the Rain” by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. Other overseas successes include Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee’s masterpiece set in hot and violent Brooklyn, and Bob Reiner’s Stay with Me, a four-boy adventure in the summer of 1959 based on a famous short story by Stephen King. .
Part of the program also includes several films set over the long European summer: Spanish with Vicky Cristina Barcelona’s love triangle, a Woody Allen film with Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz; Greek, with Meryl Streep and the music of the main characters Abba from Mamma Mia! Phyllida Lloyd; finally, French, with “A Little Lie Between Friends” by Guillaume Canet, who shoots “The Great Cold” in a transalpine version and in a summer setting.
An important place in the August program will be devoted to our cinema, in particular those films that tell the stories, dreams, illusions and stereotypes of the Italian summer. In this way, it will be possible to relive a day in 1949 on the coast of Ostia with Luciano Emmer and Summer Sunday, the perfect meeting place for neo-realism and comedy, to rediscover the beach of Alberto Lattuada, a melodrama from 1953 included among the 100 Italian films to be saved. or return to Forte dei Marmi in the summer of 1964 with the film “Sapore di mare”, Carlo Vanzina’s most famous film. We will go from twenty years and the conformity of the middle class, narrated by Alessandro D’Alatri in Americano rosso, to the first timid signs of an economic boom, brought to the screen by Aldo Fabrizi of the Passaguai family, to the drifts of well-being. featured in Dino Risi’s The Umbrella to finally reach the financial crisis Sole a catinelle, Gennaro Nunciante’s blockbuster with Cecco Zalone.
There will also be a look at the capital in its summer version, with crowded establishments on the Tiber, as described by Dino Risi in “Poveri ma belli”, and with a double portrait of an empty city created by Nanni Moretti in “Caro diario” and Gianni Di. Gregorio at mid-August lunch.
In addition, thanks to the “Schermi d’Agosto” series, it will be possible to go on a long journey through the most beautiful and evocative islands, places of great stories and magical places: in Procida, with Michael Radford’s Il postino, who sees Massimo Troisi in his last appearance on big screen; in Ventotene, where the class clash depicted by Paolo Virzi in “Ferie d’Agosto” is staged; in Kastelorizo, where Gabriele Salvatores is filming his Oscar-winning film Mediterraneo; on the southern Italian island of Odio le Estate, Massimo Veniera, where the misfortunes of Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo meet and collide; and finally, on that deserted island where Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato were shipwrecked in Lina Wertmüller’s film An Extraordinary Destiny in the Blue August Sea.
The summer program of Casa del Cinema will end on Thursday, August 31 at 21:00 with a special event – the screening of the feature film “The Law”.a documentary in which, as filmmaker Flavia Masrella explains, “the mobile phone has evolved from being a weapon to destroy emotion in presence to being a remote creative tool.”
AUGUST 2023 PROGRAM
August 6, 2023
SUNDAY IN AUGUST Luciano Emmer, Italy, 1950, 88 minutes
August 7, 2023
FAMILY PASSAGUA Aldo Fabrizi, Italy, 1951, 93′
August 8, 2023
POOR BUT BEAUTIFUL, Dino Risi Italy, France, 1957, 98′
August 9, 2023
ROMAN VACATION, William Wyler, USA, 1953, 119 minutes.
August 10, 2023
CARRIED BY AN UNUSUAL FATE TO THE BLUE AUGUST SEA Lina Wertmüller, Italy, 1974, 126′
August 11, 2023
STAND BY ME (STAND BY ME – MEMORY OF A SUMMER) Rob Reiner, USA, 1986, 87′
August 12, 2023
FERRAGOSTO LUNCH Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy, 2008, 75′
August 13, 2023
SUN IN CATINEL, Gennaro Nunziante, Italy, 2013, 90′
August 14, 2023
The Seven Year Itch (when the wife is on vacation), Billy Wilder, USA, 1955, 105 minutes.
August 15, 2023
AUGUST VACATION Paolo Virzi, Italy, 1996, 108′
August 16, 2023
TASTE OF THE SEA, Carlo Vanzina, Italy, 1983, 94′
August 17, 2023
I HATE SUMMER, Massimo Venier, Italy, 2020, 105′
August 18, 2023
DO IT RIGHT, Spike Lee, USA, 1989, 120 min.
August 19, 2023
OH MAMA! Phyllida Lloyd US UK Germany 2008 109′
August 20, 2023
UMBRELLA. Dino Risi, Italy, 1965, 90′
August 21, 2023
CATCH THE THIEF, Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1955, 107′
August 22, 2023
JAWS, Steven Spielberg, USA, 1975, 124 ft.
August 23, 2023
MEDITERRANEAN, Gabriele Salvatores, Italy, 1991, 100 min.
August 24, 2023
BEACH Alberto Lattuada, Italy, France, 1953, 100′
August 25, 2023
LES PETITS MUCHOIRS (LITTLE LIES BETWEEN FRIENDS) Guillaume Canet, France, 2012, 154′
August 26, 2023
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, Woody Allen, Spain, USA, 2008, 96′
August 27, 2023
AMERICAN RED, Alessandro D’Alatri, Italy, 1991, 98′
August 28, 2023
SINGIN ‘IN THE RAIN Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, USA, 1952, 103’
August 29, 2023
DEAR DIARO Nanni Moretti, Italy, France, 1993, 100′
August 30, 2023
Postman by Michael Radford, Italy, France, Belgium, 1994, 108′
August 31, 2023
LAW, Flavia Mastrella, Italy, 2022, 78 minutes
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Screenings at the Ettore Scola Theatre, the outdoor arena of the Casa del Cinema, are free of charge as long as space is available. In case of bad weather, screenings will take place in the Sala Cinecittà, which has more than 100 seats for the public: admission to the theater will be free with the withdrawal of the coupon.
All films in original language with subtitlesexceptions will be reported. The program is subject to change.
Ticket office/informpoint Movie Houses will be open in August from Monday to Sunday from 17 to 22.
The Casa del Cinema in Villa Borghese is operated by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma. The revamped editorial line of Casa del Cinema is led by Foundation President Gian Luca Farinelli and Artistic Director Paola Malanga, CEO of Francesca Via.
Casa del Cinema is promoted by Roma Capitale, Lazio Region, Cinecittà (representing the Ministry of Culture), the Chamber of Commerce, Crafts and Agriculture of Rome and the Musical Foundation of Rome. Institutional partners are the General Directorate of Cinema and Audiovisual of the Ministry of Culture and SIAE – the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers. The activity is carried out in cooperation with Rai Cinema, Rai Teche, CSC – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and Cineteca di Bologna. Technical sponsors are APA – Billboard advertising agency, Canon, Pino Chiodo and Lino Sonego.
For the August program we thank: Archimede Film, Compass Film, Leone Film Group, Lucky Red, Medusa Film, RTI SpA, Titanus, Video SpA
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