Why so? It is the Festival of Italian Cinema- MOVIEMOV: Italian Cinema Now!
7 contemporary Italian films making their premiere here in Pilipinas,
4 films by Bernardo Bertolucci,
3 films by Dario Argento,
and 3 films by our Brillante Mendoza!
Also, BE with
Italian actors,
actresses,
directors,
producers
and composers
Ci vediamo!
Oh, btw, thanks to http://www.italiancinemanow.com for this:
9TH NOVEMBER
8:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5-Opening Gala
HABEMUS PAPAM
BY Nanni Moretti (Italy 2011 - 104’) CAST Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr, Renato Scarpa
After the Pontiff’s death the Conclave needs to elect the next Pope. However, the newly elected one falls prey to doubt and anxiety, depressed and fearful of not being able to accomplish his tasks. The Vatican then summons a therapist in order to support him and help him get over his troubles.
8:30 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3-Tribute to Billante Mendoza
SERBIS
BY Brillante Mendoza (Philippines 2008 - 90’) CAST Gina Pareño, Jacklyn Jose, Julio Diaz
The Pineda family operates a run-down movie house which shows dated sexy films, where they’ve taken up residence. Amidst their daily activities, they deal with each other’s sins and vices, unmindful of the other kind of business going on inside the movie theater between the serbis boys (male prostitutes) and the gay patrons.
10:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 4-Tribute to Dario Argento
DRACULA 3D
BY Dario Argento (Italy 2012 - 20’) CAST Asia Argento, Rutger Hauer and Thomas Kretschmann
The young solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to a remote castle in Transylvania, where he meets the creepy Count Dracula who keeps him trapped in his mansion. With the help of Professor Van Helsing, Harker will strive to put an end to the Prince of Darkness’s bloody crimes.
10TH NOVEMBER
5:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5-Italian Showcase
MINE VAGANTI | LOOSE CANNONS
BY Ferzan Ozpetek (Italy 2010 - 110’) CAST Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi
Tommaso is the youngest member of a large family of pasta-makers in Puglia. Today they have come together for a special family meal to celebrate handing over the factory’s management to Antonio. Tommaso has decided to finally announce to his unsuspecting family that he’s gay.
5:30 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3-Italian Showcase
HABEMUS PAPAM
BY Nanni Moretti (Italy 2011 - 104’) CAST Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr, Renato Scarpa
9:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5-Italian Showcase
PASSIONE | PASSION
BY John Torturro (Italy 2010 - 88’) CAST John Turturro, Max Casella, Lina Sastri
Singers and songs, musicians and poets, real and legendary characters play the leading role in a movie that walks through one of the most beautiful, famous and controversial metropolitan cities in the world, one of the very few able to represent an idea of life.
9:30 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3-Tribute to Bernardo Bertolucci
IL CONFORMISTA | THE CONFORMIST
BY Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy 1970 - 115’) CAST Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin
At the core of the movie there is a man, Marcello, who, in order toconceal his being different, chooses to act the same as the mob surrounding him, thus becoming a fascist and turning into the killer of his teacher, an anti-fascist professor.
11TH NOVEMBER
4:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5-Tribute to Dario Argento
SUSPIRIA
BY Dario Argento (Italy 1977 - 112’) CAST Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci
A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. She tries to settle in at the ballet school, but hears strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually discovers that the school is merely a front for a much more sinister organization.
5:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3-Italian Showcase
PASSIONE | PASSION
BY John Torturro (Italy 2010 - 88’) CAST John Turturro, Max Casella, Lina Sastri
6:30 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5-Italian Showcase
UNA VITA TRANQUILLA | A QUIET LIFE
BY Claudio Cupellini (Italy 2010 - 100’) CAST Toni Servillo, Marco D’Amore
Rosario Russo hails from southern Italy, has a young family and is perfectly integrated in his new home near Frankfurt where he runs hotel business. He keeps a low profile, has hanged identities, speaks an impeccable German. Until one day his past suddenly comes back to haunt him.
7:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3-Italian Showcase
MINE VAGANTI | LOOSE CANNONS
BY Ferzan Ozpetek (Italy 2010 - 110’) CAST Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi
8:30 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5-Italian Showcase
VINCERE | VICTORY
BY Marco Bellocchio (Italy 2009 - 128’) CAST Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi and Fausto Russo Alesi
The tragic story of Ida Dalser, Mussolini’s first wife, who had a son from him, Benito Albino Mussolini, who died with his mother in a mental hospital where Il Duce had had them confined.
9:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3-Tribute to Bernardo Bertolucci
ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI | LAST TANGO IN PARIS
BY Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy 1972 - 136’) CAST Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi
An impossible and desperate love story. A heartbreaking cry by the middle-class. A challenge, trickled through cinematic elegance and expertise, to the obliging conventions of the forefathers of cinema.
12TH NOVEMBER
2:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5-Italian Showcase
UNA VITA TRANQUILLA | A QUIET LIFE
BY Claudio Cupellini (Italy 2010 - 100’) CAST Toni Servillo, Marco D’Amore
4:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5-Tribute to Billante Mendoza
LOLA
BY Brillante Mendoza (Philippines 2009 - 110’) CAST Anita Linda, Rustica Carpio, Tanya Gomez
Two elderly women, both called Lola, bear the consequences of a crime involving their respective grandsons— one is the victim, the other is the suspect. Both weak and poor, they laboriously solicit money in the midst of a storm — one for the victi’s burial, the other for the suspect’s bail bond.
5:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3-Italian Showcase
VINCERE | VICTORY
BY Marco Bellocchio (Italy 2009 - 128’) CAST Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi and Fausto Russo Alesi
6:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5-Italian Showcase
CORPO CELESTE
BY Alice Rohrwacher (Italy 2011 - 98’) CAST Salvatore Cantalupo, Anita Caprioli, Renato Carpentieri
Marta is thirteen and, after spending ten years with her family in Switzerland, goes back to live with her mother in Italy’s deep south,in a Calabria floating between modernity and ancient traditions.
7:30 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3-Italian Showcase
CHE BELLA GIORNATA | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY
BY Gennaro Nunziante (Italy 2011 - 97’) CAST Checco Zalone, Isabelle Adriani, Nabiha Akkari
9:30 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3-Tribute to Bernardo Bertolucci
L'ULTIMO IMPERATORE | THE LAST EMPEROR
BY Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy 1987 - 160’) CAST John Lone, Joan Chen and Peter O’Toole
Immense portrait of almost a century of Chinese history, from the appointment of Pu-Yi, a three-year-old child, as Emperor of China, until his death as a plain gardener in Beijing’s botanical garden.
13TH NOVEMBER
3:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5-Italian Showcase
CORPO CELESTE
BY Alice Rohrwacher (Italy 2011 - 98’) CAST Salvatore Cantalupo, Anita Caprioli, Renato Carpentieri
3:30 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3-Italian Showcase
CHE BELLA GIORNATA | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY
BY Gennaro Nunziante (Italy 2011 - 97’) CAST Checco Zalone, Isabelle Adriani, Nabiha Akkari
5:00 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 5-Tribute to Dario Argento
PROFONDO ROSSO |DEEP RED
BY Dario Argento (Italy 1975 - 126’) CAST David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a feisty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
5:30 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3-Tribute to Brillante Mendoza
KINATAY
BY Brillante Mendoza (Philippines 2009 - 110’) CAST Coco Martin, Maria Isabel Lopez, Julio Diaz
Today is Peping’s wedding day with the mother of his baby. A poor police academy student, he can’t turn down an opportunity to make money. Peping naively accepts a well-paid job from a corrupt friend and falls into an all-night nightmare, the kidnapping and torture of a prostitute. Is he a killer himself?
9:30 PM - Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3-Tribute to Bernardo Bertolucci
THE DREAMERS
BY Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy 2003 - 130’) CAST Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel and Eva Green
On the background of the riotous political events leading up to May ’68 in France, three youngsters shut themselves up at home in Paris, where they will explore emotions and eroticism in a crescendo of more and more extreme mind games.
For more information, please visit:
www.italiancinemanow.com
www.facebook.com/ItalianEmbassyManila
Ciaooouuuuuu!!!
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