Archive
Gianni Amelio. The paper screen
Photostrip stories were an extraordinarily successful phenomenon during the 1950s, an Italian specialty, a piece of popular publishing history that was overlooked for decades, a bizarre combination of cinema and popular literature. The National Cinema Museum dedicates a surprising, vast exhibit t... Continue
Isabelle Huppert. La donna dei ritratti
Equally prolific as a photographic subject, H... Continue
Mario Soldati: the films
Mario Soldati, a prominent figure in Italian cinema, was an author, journalist, screenwriter, actor and film and television director. The National Cinema Museum celebrates the 100th anniversary of Soldati’s birth with a series of images from its collections, a tribute to the filmmaker’s multiface... Continue
The estetics of Visconti's vision - The art of Luchino Visconti
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Luchino Visconti, the National Cinema Museum dedicates an exhibit to one of the directors who has had the greatest impact on Italian film and theater during the 20th century. Inside the Mole Antonelliana, 98 large-format photographs are on... Continue
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema in poetry form
The action and set stills that are on exhibit along the outside rail fence and inside the Mole Antonelliana are a tribute to the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini and to the set photographers whose snapshots were able to capture the poetry of his films. The dramatic physicality of Pasolini’s film ima... Continue