Events in Cinema Massimo

- From the 7th to the 31st January 2011

The National Cinema Museum presents American Stories: the films of Martin Scorsese at Cinema Massimo.

The National Cinema Museum pays tribute to the films of Martin Scorsese – the American film director, screenwriter, actor and film producer with Italian roots – with a vast retrospective festival entitled American Stories: the films of Martin Scorsese. The festival, which will run at Cinema Massimo from the 7th to the 31st January 2011, only includes films set in the United States depicting a period in America’s history that goes from the second half of the 19th century up until the present day.

The retrospective will open on the 7th January 2010, at 8 p.m, in Cinema Massimo’s Screen Three, with a screening of the film The Age of Innocence, winner of an Academy Award for best costume design in 1994, showing the copy provided by Park Circus. Admission: 5.50/4.00/3.00 euros.

- Monday, 10 January 2011, at 8.30 p.m.

For IL CINEMA DEGLI ALTRI (OTHER PEOPLE’S CINEMA), a screening of Mark Hopkins’s documentary Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, following a meeting with Sergio Cecchini, the director of communication for Médecins Sans Frontières.

This year’s first event in the IL CINEMA DEGLI ALTRI (OTHER PEOPLE’S CINEMA) series, will take place on Monday 10th January 2011, at 8.30 p.m., in Cinema Massimo’s Screen Three, and will feature a screening of Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, directed by Mark Hopkins and produced by Red Floor Pictures. The screening will be introduced by Sergio Cecchini, Médecins Sans Frontières’ director of communication.

Today, Médecins Sans Frontières is the biggest private and independent international humanitarian organisation. It brings medical aid and health care to places where the right to health is not guaranteed. In 1999 it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

- Tuesday, 11 January 2011, at 8.45 p.m.

The MAGNIFICHE VISIONI (MAGNIFICENT VISIONS) Permanent Festival of Restored Film returns and inaugurates its new season with the restoration of Federico Fellini’s Roma.

The National Cinema Museum presents Federico Fellini’s film Roma, screening a copy restored by Bologna borough council’s film archive, the National Cinema Museum and the CSC – National Film Archive in the laboratories of L’Immagine Ritrovata, on Tuesday 11th January 2011 at 8.45 p.m. and Wednesday 12th January 2011 at 4 p.m. in Cinema Massimo’s Screen Three.

This film is the first in a new and exciting season of the MAGNIFICHE VISIONI (MAGNIFICENT VISIONS) Permanent Festival of Restored Film. Admission: 5.50/4.00/3.00 euros.

This year, following its enormous success among the general public and film critics, the MAGNIFICHE VISIONI (MAGNIFICENT VISIONS) Permanent Festival of Restored Film will hold four monthly screenings of cinema masterpieces of the golden age of classic film, from the silent era up to the nouvelles vagues of the 1960s and beyond, screening restored copies from the most prestigious film archives in the world. The films will be presented in their original versions with Italian subtitles and every screening will be introduced – whenever possible – by film directors, critics or celebrities from the world of culture and film.

- Wednesday, 12 January 2011, at 9 p.m.

The first CULT! evening of the year focuses on Olivier Assayas, with a screening of Carlos – the film.

The National Cinema Museum devotes this year’s first CULT! evening to the French film director Olivier Assayas with a screening of Carlos – the film, scheduled for Wednesday 12th January 2011 at 9 p.m., in Cinema Massimo’s Screen Three.

Premiered at the Cannes film festival, the Carlos television mini-series Olivier Assayas created for Canal+ was outstanding in the fact that it proved once more how it is sometimes a fine line that divides a certain kind of television and film. The series, with its five and a half hours of intense narrative, reveals the contradictions of what remains a mysterious and, at times unexplainable, character ­– the Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramirez Sanchez – and also reconstructs a vast and fiery page of contemporary history.

As well as showing the ‘reduced’ version that Assayas himself cut short for the silver screen, a complete version of the mini-series will be shown on Saturday 29th January 2011 at 3.30 p.m. Admission: 5.50/4.00/3.00 euros.