The "Piccolo America”, the association of children from Rome that saved the historic Cinema America in the heart of Trastevere from demolition in 2012, has returned to the limelight and is once again enlivening the nights of the Capital by bringing cinema to the squares of the center and the outskirts of the city: from Piazza San Cosimato in Trastevere to Casale della Cervelletta in Tor Sapienza up to the Tourist Port of Ostia. Thus Rome relives the magical atmosphere of Renato Nicolini's Roman Summer of the 70s and 80s but with a fundamental difference: at the time the volcanic and regretted councilor for culture of the Argan and Petroselli councils was the expression of the progressive administrations of the capital, while today the merit of cinema in the Roman squares belongs entirely to the boys of "Little America" who have found alongside them the Lazio Region and the population but who in recent years have had to suffer the boycott of the Five Stars and the Raggi council, which only now seems to have repented.
This year the program of the "Cinema in the square" (www.ilcinemainpiazza.it) - which is staged every evening from Wednesday to Sunday - is particularly ambitious and could represent a valid format not only for Rome but for many cities around the world. Italy: 104 screening evenings with 104 different films, public debates with great directors, actors, screenwriters and workers, retrospectives, great classics of national and international film heritage, as well as films dedicated to children on 3 large screens with 8.200 square meters of audience area.
Many famous names will take turns on the stages of "Cinema in the square": from Sergio Castellitto to Manetti Bros and Serena Rossi, from Stefania Sandrelli to Marco Bellocchio, from Lina Wertmuller to Adriana Asti and Marco Tullio Giordana, from Margherita Buy to Ennio Morricone , from Matteo Garrone and Marcello Fonte to Dario Argento, from Riccardo Milani to Paola Cortellesi, from Gabriele Muccino to many others.
"Cinema in the Square - say the students of Piccolo America - is a large public library, in which every evening all those who live in and pass through the city will be able to consult a different cinematographic work at the same time by borrowing it for a single collective vision on the great screen" .
