The 12th edition of the Rome Film
Festival opens on Thursday and will run through November 5.
Among the most eagerly awaited events will be a
Bollywood-style evening against a Rome Renaissance backdrop in
Villa Medici, a meet-up for the 35th anniversary of Carlo
Verdone's 1982 award-winning film 'Talcum Powder', an event with
David Lynch and the world premiere of Mazinga Z Infinity on the
45th anniversary of the manga superhero.
There will also be a number of premieres of films in the
running for the top prize, including Bigelow's 'Detroit", "Last
Flag Flying" by Linklater and Soderbergh's 'Logan Lucky".
Other highlights include:
1) the Rome festival includes many side events and
internationally renowned films, perennially sold-out events and
Alice nella Città, a parallel festival for youth films. The Rome
Film Festival, which takes part in several parts of the city
with the Auditorium Parco della Musica at its gravitational
center, tries to draw in the public at large and foreigners and
not only film fans. It has, over the years, become an
"interdisciplinary urban festival".
2) Nanni Moretti will be speaking at the festival, (30/10), as
well as Fiorello (28/10), Vanessa Redgrave (2/11), Jake
Gyllenhaal (29/10), Xavier Dolan (27/10) Gigi Proietti, Michael
Nyman, Phil Jackson, Christoph Waltz and Chuck Palahniuk. A
career award will be given to David Lynch by Paolo Sorrentino on
4/11. Alice nella Citta' will instead see such guests as Orlando
Bloom and Dakota Fanning.
3) "Borg/McEnroe", which opened the Toronto Film Festival and
will be in cinemas from November 9, will be at the Rome Film
Festival at an event with 600 people, an evening with tennis
players and green carpets and two former tennis stars: Panatta
and Pietrangeli.
4) Bigelow-Linklater-Soderbergh: three directors of three
international films in the running for the top prize. Katherine
Bigelow, an Oscar-prize winning director, is awaited with
"Detroit", an American story on racial discrimination set 50
years ago but still very topical. History is also central in
"Last Flag Flying" by Richard Linklater with three soldiers and
old friends who reminisce about Vietnam and the war in Iraq.
"Logan Lucky", with Channing Tatum and Adam Driver, is instead
Soderbergh's return to the big screen in a comedy with several
surprising twists and turns.
5) a preview of the 40-million-euro European television
series aiming to compete with its American cousins: "Babylon
Berlin"
photo: the festival's official poster
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