Events to Cinema Massimo
- Monday 17 January 2011, at 4.30 p.m.
The National Cinema Museum inaugurates the LEGEND FILM FESTIVAL's Turin events with Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot at Cinema Massimo.
On Monday the 17th January 2011 from 4.30 p.m. in Cinema Massimo's Screen Two, the National Cinema Museum presents a screening of Billy Wilder's film Some Like It Hot in a 2K digital version. The screening is the first Turin-based event of the Legend Film Festival, a Nexo Digital project which the National Cinema Museum is participating in. The film will be repeated at 6.30 p.m./8.30 p.m./10.30 p.m.
Every Monday, until the 13th June 2011, Cinema Massimo's Screen Two will feature a great film from the history of cinema in a digital 2K version for the entire day. The titles selected cover the entire history of cinema and will all have an extraordinary projection quality. Audiences will be able to choose from undisputed classics like Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life or Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot as well as more recent cult movies like Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather or Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands. The films are shown in their Italian version except when stated otherwise. Admission: 7.00/5.00/3.50 euros.
- Tuesday 18 January 2011, at 8.45 p.m.
The MAGNIFICHE VISIONI (MAGNIFICENT VISIONS): Permanent Festival of Restored Film presents the restoration of Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's Singing in the Rain.
The National Cinema Museum presents the restoration of Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's musical Singing in the Rain on Tuesday 18th January 2011 at 8.45 p.m., repeated Wednesday 19th January 2011 at 4.30 p.m. in Cinema Massimo's Screen Three.
Made in 1952, the film is considered one of the most well-loved films from the golden age and one of the most famous musicals in Hollywood history, enough to earn it fifth place on the American Film Institute's list of greatest films of all time, drawn up in 2007. For MAGNIFICHE VISIONI, the film will be shown in a copy reprinted by Les Films du Paradoxe for the Grand Lyon Film Festival – Lumière 2010.
The film is the second event in our new and exciting season of the MAGNIFICHE VISIONI (MAGNIFICENT VISIONS): Permanent Festival of Restored Film. Admission: 5.50/4.00/3.00 euros.
- Wednesday 19 January 2011, at 8.45 p.m.
A screening of Kore-eda Hirokazu's film Air Doll, following a presentation of Dario Tomasi's latest publications on Asian films for IL CINEMA DI CARTA (PAPER CINEMA).
In conjunction with the publication of the essays Il cinema dell’Estremo Oriente. Cina, Corea del Sud, Giappone, Hong Kong, Taiwan: dagli anni Ottanta ad oggi (Films of the Far East: China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan, from the 1980s to the present day, published by Utet, 2010) and Il cinema asiatico. L’Estremo Oriente (Asian Film: The Far East, published by Laterza, 2010) by the author Dario Tommasi, the National Cinema Museum presents Kore-eda Hirokazu's film Air Doll, on Wednesday, the 19th January 2011, at 8.45 p.m. in Cinema Massimo's Screen Three.
Dario Tomasi, a lecturer in the history of film at the University of Turin and known as one of the most authoritative European scholars of oriental film, will present the two publications (the first of which was written with Marco Dalla Gassa) and will introduce a screening of Kore-eda Hirokazu's film, which made its world premiere this year in Cannes in the Un Certain regard section and has not yet been released in Italy. Admission: 5.50/4.00/3.00 euros.