Events in Cinema Massimo
Saturday 20 March 2010, at 9 p.m.
March’s NON FICTION evening features a screening of Anders Østergaard’s documentary Burma VJ.
The National Museum of Cinema, in partnership with CineAgenzia and GA&A Group, is dedicating its March NON FICTION evening to Anders Østergaard’s extraordinary documentary Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country, which was one of the prestigious top five documentary features nominated at this year’s Oscars. The film, which was produced in Denmark and will soon be released in cinemas around the world, has been screened at all the most important international film festivals – from Sundance to Berlin, from Amsterdam to Boulder – winning several awards along the way and attracting a great deal of interest, and not just from film critics. A second screening will be shown on the 21st of March at 4.30 p.m. Admission: 5.50/4.00/3.00 euros.
Monday 22 March 2010, at 8.30 p.m.
The COLPI DI GENIO (MOMENTS OF GENIUS) festival features a screening of William Dieterle’s The Story of Louis Pasteur
The National Museum of Cinema presents William Dieterle’s film The Story of Louis Pasteur at Cinema Massimo. The film will be introduced and presented by Andrea Graziani (lecturer in Biochemistry, Faculty of Clinical and Experimental Medicine at the Università del Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro in Novara).
Admission: 3 euros.
The COLPI DI GENIO. Scienziati e inventori nel cinema (MOMENTS OF GENIUS: Scientists and inventors as portrayed in film) festival, organised by the National Museum of Cinema, Dams – The University of Turin’s performing arts college and the University of Turin’s degree course in Communication Studies, focuses on the relationship between science and film. It is part of Aspettando ESOF2010, a series of events (exhibitions, seminars, conferences, shows and school activities) that will lead up to the fourth edition of ESOF – Euroscience Open Forum, the pan-European biennial meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation, which will take place in Turin from the 2nd to the 7th of July 2010.
Wednesday 24 March 2010, at 8.45 p.m.
The MAGNIFICHE VISIONI (MAGNIFICENT VISIONS) Permanent Festival of Restored Film continues at Cinema Massimo with a screening of Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry, presented by Marcello Fois.
The National Museum of Cinema presents its fifth evening in the MAGNIFICHE VISIONI (MAGNIFICENT VISIONS) permanent festival of restored film.
The evening will feature Don Siegel’s masterpiece Dirty Harry, the first in the series of films that portray the adventures of San Francisco police inspector Harry Callahan, played by Clint Eastwood. The film, which will be screened in its 2K version restored by Warner Bros, is considered a benchmark for the police detective film genre and is loosely based on the story of a serial killer called Zodiac who terrorised the San Francisco Bay area from the late 1960s to the late 1970s.
The screening will be introduced by the author Marcello Fois.