For NIC’S MOVIE, exceptional screening of the restored Too Much Johnson, a silent film by Orson Welles, considered lost for over forty years.

Cinema Massimo – 19 February 2014, 8.30 p.m., Screen Three

The National Cinema Museum presents a rendez-vous dedicated to the debut of great authors, but also new filmmakers, starting from the month of February 2014, to recall the films and the commitment about ‘young cinema on the part of Nicola Rondolino, who left us last May.

 

The inauguration will be on Wednesday 19 February, at 8.30 p.m., on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo, with Orson Welles, whose Too Much Johnson, a silent film that had been considered lost in the 1970 fire at the director’s house in Madrid for over forty years. Restored by the George Eastman House and by the Cineteca del Friuli, the film – a rough cut with no soundtrack – will be screened with a pianoforte accompaniment by Maestro Stefano Maccagno. Introduced by Giulia Carluccio. Admission 6.00/4.00/3.00 euro.