New York is American cinema, the set par excellence of thousands of directors, who modeled the image of contemporary man on the shape of the Big Apple. Over the years the city has produced every genre of film, from gangster to musical, from crime to fantasy, from drama to romantic comedy. Skyscrapers, streets and nightclubs are the backdrop for dramas and love stories, as well as shady dealings between gangsters, corrupt policemen and misfits of all kinds: a human universe that has found the horizon for its own affirmation in the contradictions of the great metropolis but also the hell of defeat. With this review we will immerse ourselves in New York with the gaze of the major authors of American cinema and through a roundup of exciting masterpieces, in which the city is the protagonist, we will travel to discover the center of the contemporary world, visiting every corner with the guidance of unforgettable characters .
PROGRAM
26 and 27 April, 21.00 pm
Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Blake Edwards. USA, 1961, 115' – ov subt. it.
Timeless masterpiece of American comedy, with a magical charm, irresistible like Audrey Hepburn who, wandering the streets of fragile and beautiful New York, has become an icon of the history of cinema.
28 April and 1 May, 21.00 pm
West Side Story
by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. USA, 1961, 152' - v. it.
Ten Oscars to the musical that revolutionized the genre, setting Romeo e Giulietta among the youth gangs of the city, the absolute protagonist and helpless spectator of the racial hatred exploding in its streets. With Bernstein's extraordinary music, everything in the film is song and rousing movement.
2 and 3 May, 21.00 pm
Taxi Driver
by Martin Scorsese. USA, 1976, 113' – ov subt. it.
Pillar of modern cinema, he crosses the void of the urban jungle with the estranged gaze of the great De Niro, the dark incarnation of post-Vietnam America: loneliness and repressed violence ready to explode.
4 and 5 May, 21.00 pm
Saturday night fever
by John Badham. USA, 1977, 118' – ov subt. It.
Spectacular dance sequences and irresistible music by the Bee Gees: this is the iconic film of the seventies. Behind the sparkling explosion of the nascent disco culture lies the malaise of youth without prospects in the squalor of Brooklyn, between problems of racial integration and family tensions.
7 and 8 May, 21.00 pm
Manhattan
by Woody Allen. USA, 1979, 96' – v. it.
Extraordinary and intense declaration of love for the Big Apple by the master of contemporary American cinema, who superimposes his soul on the image of the city, internalized and dreamed to the rhythm of Gershwin's songs.
9 and 10 May, 21.00 pm
The warriors of the night
by Walter Hill. USA, 1979, 92' - v. it.
Epic of New York gangs, involved in a drugged nightmarish hunt, between dark streets, creepy parks, deserted stations covered in graffiti. Cult movie par excellence that has changed the imagination of artists, deejays, rappers and graffiti artists.
11 and 12 May, 21.00 pm
The prince of the city
by Sidney Lumet. USA, 1981, 167' – ov subt. it.
Masterful detective story inspired by the true story of a narcotics detective, determined to unmask the corruption prevailing in the police: a merciless cross-section of corrupt America, full of contradictions, inherent in democracy and the administration of justice.
15 and 16 May, 21.00 pm
Wall Street
by Oliver Stone. USA, 1987, 126' - v. it.
New York in the XNUMXs is the worst capitalism battlefield, which Oliver Stone harshly accuses, exposing an unscrupulous and power-hungry system, masterfully played by Oscar-winning Michael Douglas.
17 and 19 May, 21.00 pm
King of new york
by Abel Ferrara. USA, 1990, 103' - v. it.
The master of independent anti-Hollywood cinema drags us into the slums between feuding criminal factions, in a violent and nocturnal film, halfway between gangster action and social thriller, starring an extraordinary Christopher Walken.
21 and 22 May, 21.00 pm
The age of innocence
by Martin Scorsese. USA, 1993, 139' - v. it.
With an amazing reconstruction of the environment, Scorsese analyzes the New York social identity, constant over time, discovering the same tribal logic of the gangsters in the conformist beau monde of the late nineteenth century, where violence is only psychological but no less deadly.
23 and 24 May, 21.00 pm
Carlito's way
by Brain DePalma. USA, 1993, 144' - v. it.
New York is still the scene of the gangster epic, which the great De Palma tells by veering towards noir, to make us emotionally adhere to the end of an era and of Carlito, the criminal destined to be defeated and whom Al Pacino makes unforgettable.
25 and 26 May, 21.00 pm
Smoke
by Wayne Wang. USA, Germany, 1995, 112' – v. it.
Screenplay debut of the great New York singer, Paul Auster, who crosses stories of various humanity in a Brooklyn tobacco shop: between praise of smoking and existential adventures, an irresistible microcosm supported by great performances, with an unrivaled Keitel.
29 and 30 May, 21.00 pm
It shoots in Manhattan
by Tom DiCillo. USA, 1995, 90' - v. it.
Entertaining comedy about the world of cinema: an outlandish crew and a neurotic director grappling with the exhilarating adventures and everyday problems of a low-cost set on the streets of the city, which increasingly resembles the scenario of a dream.
31 May and 1 June, 21.00 pm
Basquiat
by Julian Schnabel. USA, 1996, 108' – v. it.
The famous painter Schnabel tells the story of Basquiat: as an unknown Brooklyn graffiti artist he achieved international success in the 80s and died of an overdose at a very young age. An intense portrait of an artist, with a remarkable cast – Bowie is Andy Warhol – and a soundtrack by John Cale.
2 and 4 June, 21.00 pm
Thirteen variations on a theme
by Jill Sprecher. USA, 2001, 95' - v. it.
In a distant and chaotic New York, five stories of ordinary people, in search of happiness and grappling with the obstacles posed by fate. Fears and feelings told with a wealth of psychological nuances rare in contemporary cinema.
5 and 6 June, 21.00 pm
The sidewalks of New York
by Edward Burns. USA, 2001, 108' - v. it.
A brilliant comedy that follows a circle of sentimental stories through the neighborhoods of the city with a documentary rhythm, the true protagonist of the film: from Queens to Greenwich, the different souls of the city and those of the protagonists meet, in search of love and the meaning of life .
7 and 8 June, 21.00 pm
The 25th hour
by Spike Lee. USA, 2002, 135' - v. it.
A pusher's last hours of freedom before prison inspire Spike Lee with an intense and poetic gaze, directed as always at his city: a farewell elegy and a reflection on the end of an era, through time dilated by waiting , which gives a glimpse of every missed life.
9 and 11 June, 21.00 pm
Owners of the night
by James Gray. USA, 2007, 105' - v. it.
Deeply New Yorker, James Gray is one of the best independent directors of the new generation and elevates the slum detective story to the level of classic tragedy, crossing family conflicts and police-underworld confrontation with a reflection on the struggle between good and evil.
12 and 13 June, 21.00 pm
Cloverfield
by Matt Reeves. USA, 2008, 85' – v. it.
Un disaster movie incredible and engaging that embodies the phobias of the new millennium, overcoming the limits of the genre film with an innovative technique: shooting with a handheld camera, which transports the viewer into the midst of the catastrophe that destroys New York.
14 and 15 June, 21.00 pm
shame
by Steve McQueen. Great Britain, 2011, 101' - v. it.
The great British video artist McQueen skilfully observes the pneumatic vacuum of the metropolis with a thousand possibilities, where deep impulses repeat themselves without respite and limits, building a prison with no exit for the solitude of the protagonist, the exceptional Fassbender.
Information
Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Cinema Hall
stairway in via Milano 9 a, Rome
FREE ENTRY UNTIL SEATS LAST
