ITALIAN CINEMA RETURNS TO LOS ANGELES
WITH
CINEMA ITALIAN STYLE
NOVEMBER 12 THROUGH NOVEMBER 16, 2015
The Egyptian and Aero Theatres
October, 26, 2015 – Cinema Italian Style, the annual celebration of Italian film copresented by the American Cinematheque and Luce Cinecittà, returns to Los
Angeles for its eleventh edition from November 12th through November 16th, 2015,
with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture, under the Auspices of the
Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles.
Following the success of the 2014 screening of the digitally restored version of
Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore, Luce Cinecittà will partner again with AFI
FEST 2015 presented by Audi. On November 11th, they will present The Music Of
Cinema: A Conversation with Paolo Sorrentino and Michael Caine, an evening
dedicated to one of the greatest Italian contemporary directors, Paolo Sorrentino,
Golden Globes and Academy Awards® 2014 winner for Best Foreign-Language
Film for THE GREAT BEAUTY (LA GRANDE BELLEZZA). Sorrentino will
present his latest work YOUTH (LA GIOVINEZZA), starring Michael
Caine, Rachel Weisz, Harvey Keitel, Paul Dano and Jane Fonda at the Egyptian
Theatre in Hollywood.
Cinema Italian Style will open at the Egyptian and Aero Theatres on November 12
with Italy’s official Oscar® submission for Best Foreign-Language Film 2016,
Claudio Caligari's final film DON'T BE BAD (NON ESSERE CATTIVO), copresented by AFI FEST, which looks at two friends pulled in different directions by
nightlife and criminal activity in the 1990s on the outskirts of Rome.
The following delegation of directors and actors will be in Los Angeles for the
festival: directors Francesca Archibugi (AN ITALIAN NAME), Piero Messina
(THE WAIT), Paolo Sorrentino (YOUTH) and Maria Sole Tognazzi (ME,
MYSELF AND HER); actors: Alessandro Borghi and Luca Marinelli (DON’T
BE BAD), and Valerio Mastandrea (reputed actor, this time as one of producer of
DON’T BE BAD) along with a representative of Italian producers.
Screenings include: Ivano De Matteo's THE DINNER (I NOSTRI RAGAZZI),
another examination of how close violence is to all of our lives, studying difficult
family decisions. The festival moves to the north of Italy and the underworld of
Milan, which turns into the milieu of ITALIAN GANGSTERS, a fascinating docudrama by Renato De Maria about the city’s most notorious post-WWII figures
intercutting archival footage and actors speaking the gangsters’ actual words.
Much of this year’s dramatic fare revolves around family starting with Nanni
Moretti’s MY MOTHER (MIA MADRE), starring John Turturro, a look at a
stressed-out filmmaker (played by Margherita Buy) whose mother is facing her final
days. A family and friends’ dinner drives Francesca Archibugi’s comedy AN
ITALIAN NAME (IL NOME DEL FIGLIO), about the question faced by all
parents: What should I name my child? Family is also the main character in
Cristina Comencini’s LATIN LOVER, in which ex-wives and daughters of a
Latin lover, played by Francesco Scianna, gather to hilarious effect to remember his
career as an actor. The relationship with a father is explored in the Italian box office
hit GOD WILLING (SE DIO VUOLE) by Edoardo Falcone, in which an arrogant
atheist father becomes off balance when his son declares his intention to join the
priesthood. In THE WAIT (L’ATTESA) by Piero Messina a mother, Juliette
Binoche, is mourning her son Giuseppe when his fiancée arrives to spend Easter
weekend with him. Unable to break the news to the young woman, Anna allows her
to wait for Giuseppe, getting to know this link to her son a little better before the
truth inevitably emerges.
In this year’s Nastro d'Argento winner for Best Comedy, THE LEGENDARY
GIULIA AND OTHER MIRACLES (NOI E LA GIULIA) by Edoardo Leo, the
main character isn’t a person, but an automobile that comes into play when three
friends (including the director) team up to start an agri-tourism business. Maria
Sole Tognazzi brings more romance and comedy with ME, MYSELF AND HER
(IO E LEI), starring Margherita Buy as better half of Sabrina Ferilli.
As every year, the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles will support Cinema
Italian Style, giving a home to a rich selection of documentaries and short films.
Cinema Italian Style continues to partnership with the Seattle International Film
Festival, presenting Cinema Italian Style in Seattle (Nov.12-19), and starts a
new collaboration with Roma Creative Contest, the International Short Film
Festival organized in Rome by the Arts Association Images Hunters: a selection of
the best short films of the past years will be screened every day before the film
program at the Aero Theatre and at the Italian Cultural Institute.
CINEMA ITALIAN STYLE will take place at the Egyptian Theatre (6712
Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028) on opening night, November 12, and
Aero Theatre (1328 Montana Ave Santa Monica, CA 90403) throughout the
festival.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: American Cinematheque and
Cinema Italian Style.
For a full schedule and synopses of the movies shown at Cinema Italian Style,
November 12th – 16th: SCHEDULE CIS FILMS 2015
For the schedule and synopses of short movies shown during Cinema Italian Style,
November 12th – 16th: SCHEDULE CIS SHORTS 2015
For the schedule and synopses of the documentaries shown at the Italian Cultural
Institute, November 13th – 18th: SCHEDULE CIS DOC 2015
Watch the trailer of this new edition: Trailer CIS 2015
Follow Cinema Italian Style on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
All films are in Italian with English subtitles, unless otherwise noted. Series
compiled by Laura Delli Colli, Gwen Deglise and Camilla Cormanni. Program
notes by John Hagelston.
There will be a Cinema Italian Style 2015 press conference on Wednesday,
November 11th at 12.00PM at Mr. C Hotel (1224 Beverwil Drive, Los Angeles, CA
90035).
With directors, producers and actors participating in the above mentioned films.
For further information, images, or interest in attending the press conference
or setting up interviews, please contact:
Press Office in U.S.A
Sally Fischer Public Relations
Virginia Cademartori: Virginia@sallyfischerpr.com
Co-presented by the American Cinematheque and Luce Cinecittà,
Under the Auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles. Supported
by the Italian Ministry of Culture-Film Department, Alcantara, Luxottica.
Technical Sponsors: Leading Hotels of the World; Rossano Ferretti.
Organized in cooperation with ITA - Italian Trade Agency and the Italian
Cultural Institute, Los Angeles.
Cinema Italian Style 2015 supports The World Bank Group’s Connect4Climate
global climate communication program and their Film4Climate initiative, and
Daybreak -Children's Rare Disease Fund, to save thousands of lives from rare
genetic diseases.
www.cinemaitalianstyle.net
www.ameriancinematheque.com
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