The National Cinema Museum for the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification
Exhibition We Believed. Risorgimento according to Martone
National Cinema Museum
from March 10 to May 15 2011
from Tuesday to Sunday: 9,00 a.m. – 8,00 p.m.; Saturday: 9,00 a.m. – 11 p.m. Monday: Closed.
Museum: Full € 7,00 – Reduced € 5,00 Museum + Panoramic Lift: Full € 9,00 – Reduced € 7,00
Characters, settings, actions and the most important moments during the production of the film by Mario Martone about the turbulent and often dramatic events of the Italian Risorgimento. A film that has already become a case, after a favourable welcome at the Venice Film Festival and a great success of public at cinemas. A path intended to explore the hidden sides of this fascinating work, combining a historical analysis with a narration of rare expressive power and an exemplary direction. 170 images displayed at Mole Antonelliana, with a catalogue rich of issues.
Camera! Action! Italy! Our great films
Officine Grandi Riparazioni
from March 17 2011 to November 20 2011
The National Cinema Museum is organizing at OGR the cinema wotkshop Camera! Action! Italy! Our great films for schools. During the workshop, participants will put up, within a real cinema setting, a short sequence from Mario Monicelli’s masterpiece, Big Deal on Madonna Street.
A sequence from another great film, The Easy Life will be reproduced for families and generic public. Videos will be available on Comitato Italia 150 website www.italia150.it
The Leopard by Luchino Visconti restored
Cinema Massimo
March 24 2011; 8.30 p.m.
Entry: Full € 7,00 – Reduced € 5,00 (Aiace, soldiers, under 18 and students) – Reduced € 3,50 (Over 60).
On the occasion of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification, Luchino Visconti’s masterpice, The Leopard, based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi Lampedusa, will be screened in a restored version. The Leopard made history because of the richness of its settings, the biting irony of some dialogues, the elegance of its colours and the ability of Visconti in describing an age of changes and strong political passions, where the ancient feeling of nostalgia and the strong need of the present meet.
Screening of the films winners of the International Contest of Cinematography Award on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition 1911
Cinema Massimo
March 30 2011; 8.30 p.m.
Free entry
In 1911, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Italian Unification, an outstanding Universal Exhibition took place in Turin. Among the major events, the first International Contest of Cinematography Award, whose winners were Nozze d’oro by Luigi Maggi, La vita delle farfalle by Roberto Omegna and Il tamburino sardo. One hundred years later, the National Cinema Museum is pleased to screen those films in a restored version, accompanied on the piano by maestro Stefano Maccagno, and followed by rare images taken during the Exhibition of 1911.
Making Italians. The history of Italy in the cinema
Cinema Massimo
From April 1 2011 to November 30 2011
Entry: Full € 5,50 - Reduced € 4,00 (Aiace, soldiers, under 18 and students – evening shows) – Reduced € 3,00 (Over 60 and students – afternoon shows).
Since April, the National Cinema Museum is putting on a series of fortnightly events that accompany the great exhibition Making Italians, set at the OGR. 26 films rebuilding the history of our country, from Risorgimento to today. An opportunity to see some of the most important masterpieces of Italian cinema, mostly presented in restored versions.
Magnum on Set. Cinema seen by great photographers
National Cinema Museum
from May 26 2011 to September 25 2011; from Tuesday to Friday 9 a.m. – 8 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. -11 p.m., Monday: closed
Museum: Full € 7,00 – Reduced € 5,00 Museum + Panoramic Lift: Full € 9,00 – Reduced € 7,00
The reporters of the greatest photo agency in the world often documented the making of cinema classics. The exhibition, through 140 snapshots, is going to take us on the sets of great masterpieces, such as Limelight by Charlie Chaplin, The Seven Year Itch by Billy Wilder, Rebel Without a Cause by Nicholas Ray, The Process by Orson Welles, Moby Dick by John Huston, Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni and many other.
