Monday, February 23, 2015

A Week of French Language Cinéma

March 16-21, 2015 

Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz

10361 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90064

For the sixth year, Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz presents A Week of French Language Cinéma in Los Angeles, as part of the 2015 celebration of the Francophonie, with free nightly screenings. This program is presented in collaboration with the Consulates of France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Canada; the Quebec Government Office in Los Angeles; and TV5 Monde.
 
All movies in French with English subtitles. 
 
FREE SCREENING: RSVP rsvp.trk@lyceela.org
PLEASE INDICATE NUMBER OF SEATS AND DAY(S)
 

BELGIUM: Monday March 16, Opening Night at 7:00 PM

 


Opening night with reception sponsored by TV5 Monde and beer tasting offered by the Belgium Consulate. Followed by short film BOWLING KILLERS by Sébastien Petit. Followed by feature film PAPER SOULS (Les âmes de papier) by Vincent Lanoo.
 

IVORY COAST: Tuesday March 17 at 7:30 PM


Animation movie Aya de Yopougon 

CANADA: Wednesday March 18 at 7:30 PM



 

 

SWITZERLAND: Thursday March 19 at 7:30 PM 

 
 
 
Short film THE FINGER (Le Doigt d’honneur) in the presence of director Malika Pellicioli
Feature film notice: Some material may be inappropriate for children under 18

QUEBEC: Friday March 20 at 7:30 PM

 
 
Les maîtres du suspense in the presence of director Stéphane Lapointe
Followed by Free beer tasting sponsored by Unibroue

 

FRANCE: Saturday March 21, Closing Night at 7:00 PM 

 
 
Closing reception starts at 7:00 sponsored by TV5 Monde with wine tasting offered by the French Consulate. Followed by short animated film Sweet Cocoon by Matéo Bernard, Matthias Bruget, Jonathan Duret, Manon Marco and Quentin Puiraveau. Followed by feature film BREATHE (Respire) by Mélanie Laurent.
 

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Academy Award Winners 2015

The 87th Academy Award Winners

 
Best Picture: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Best Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Best Actress: Julianne Moore - Still Alice

Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything

Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette - Boyhood

Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons - Whiplash

Best Adapted Screenplay: Graham Moore - The Imitation Game

Best Original Screenplay: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Best Foreign Language Film: Ida - Paweł Pawlikowski (Poland)

Best Documentary Feature: CITIZENFOUR - Laura Poitras

Best Animated Feature: Big Hero 6

Best Film Editing: Tom Cross - Whiplash

Best Song: "Glory" from Selma - Music and Lyric by John Stephens & Lonnie Lynn

Best Original Score: Alexandre Desplat - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Best Costume Design: Milena Canonero - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Production Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Sound Editing: American Sniper

Best Sound Mixing: Whiplash

Best Visual Effects: Interstellar

Best Live Action Short: The Phone Call

Best Animation Short:  Feast

Best Documentary Short: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1

For a complete list of nominated films please visit:
http://cinemaniaquefilms.blogspot.com/2015/01/academy-awards-2015.html

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Spirit Award Winners 2015

30th Film Independent Spirit Award Winners


BEST FEATURE: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Producers: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole

BEST MALE LEAD: Michael Keaton, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

BEST FEMALE LEAD: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

BEST SUPPORTING MALE: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
 
BEST DIRECTOR: Richard Linklater, Boyhood


BEST SCREENPLAY: Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler

BEST FIRST FEATURE: Nightcrawler
Director: Dan Gilroy
Producers: Jennifer Fox, Tony Gilroy, Jake Gyllenhaal, David Lancaster, Michel Litvak

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY: Justin Simien, Dear White People

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: Ida (Poland), Director: Paweł Pawlikowski

BEST DOCUMENTARY: CITIZENFOUR
Director/Producer: Laura Poitras - Producers: Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky

BEST EDITING: Tom Cross, Whiplash

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

KIEHL’S SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD: H.
Directors: Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia

20th ANNUAL LENSCRAFTERS TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD: The Kill Team
Director: Dan Krauss

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (For best feature made under $500,000): Land Ho!
Writers/Directors: Aaron Katz & Martha Stephens; Producers: Christina Jennings, Mynette Louie, Sara Murphy

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD: Inherent Vice
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, Casting Director: Cassandra Kulukundis, Ensemble Cast: Josh Brolin, Hong Chau, Martin Donovan, Jena Malone, Joanna Newsom, Joaquin Phoenix, Sasha Pieterse, Eric Roberts, Maya Rudolph, Martin Short, Serena Scott Thomas, Benicio del Toro, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Kenneth Williams

SPECIAL DISTINCTION AWARD: Foxcatcher 
Director/Producer: Bennett Miller, Producers: Anthony Bregman, Megan Ellison, Jon Kilik, Writers: E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman, Actors: Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Channing Tatum


Friday, February 20, 2015

César Winners 2015

40th César Winners

The 40th César Awards ceremony took place tonight at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Alain Resnais received a special tribute. Sean Penn was the recipient for the honorary César. Comedian Dany Boon was the chairman of the ceremony. Timbuktu directed by Abderrahmane Sissako won 7 awards including Best Picture and Best Director.  


The following are the winners:
 
Best Film: Timbuktu

Best Director: Abderrahmane Sissako - Timbuktu
 
Best Actress: Adèle Haenel - Love at First Fight (Les Combattants)
 
Best Supporting Actress: Kristen Stewart - Clouds of Sils Maria
 
Best Actor: Pierre Niney - Yves Saint Laurent
 
Best Supporting Actor: Reda Kateb - Hippocrates
 
Best Original Screenplay: Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall - Timbuktu
 
Best Adapted Screenplay: Cyril Gely, Volker Schlöndorff - Diplomatie
 
Best Costume: Anaïs Romand - Saint Laurent
 
Best Set Decoration: Thierry Flamand - The Beauty and the Beast
 
Best Cinematography: Sofian el Fani - Timbuktu

Best Editing: Nadia Ben Rachid - Timbuktu

Best Sound: Philippe Welsh, Roman Dymn, Thierry Delor - Timbuktu
 
Best Animated Film: Minuscule - La Vallée des Fourmis Perdues - Thomas Szabo & Hélène Giraud

Best First Film: Love at First Fight - Thomas Cailley

Best Newcomer Actress: Louane Emera - The Belier Family 

Best Newcomer Actor: Kevin Azaïs - Love at First Fight
 
Best Original Music: Amine Bouhafa - Timbuktu

Best Documentary: The Salt of the Earth - Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

Best Foreign Film: Mommy - Xavier Dolan

Best Short Film : Le Femme de Rio - Emma Luchini & Nicolas Rey

Best Animated Short Film: Les Petits Caillous - Chloé Mazlo

For a complete list of nominated films please visit: http://cinemaniaquefilms.blogspot.com/2015/01/cesar-awards-nominations.html



Saturday, February 14, 2015

Berlinale Winners 2015

65.BERLINALE



Golden Bear for Best Film
Taxi, Jafar Panahi (Iran)

Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
El Club, Pablo Larrain (Chile)

Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for a feature film that opens new perspectives
Ixcanul, Jayro Bustamante (Guatemala)


Silver Bear for Best Director (ex-aequo)
Radu Jude, Aferim! (Romania)
Małgorzata Szumowska, Body (Poland)


Silver Bear for Best Actress
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years (UK)

Silver Bear for Best Actor
Tom Courtenay, 45 Years (UK)


Silver Bear for Best Script
Patricio Guzman, The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) (Chile)

Silver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution in the categories camera, editing, music score, costumes or set design (ex-aequo)

Sturla Brandth Grovlen, Cinematographer: Victoria (Germany)
Sergey Mikhalchuk & Evgeniy Privin, Cinematographers: Under Electric Clouds (Russia/Ukraine)

Best First Feature Award for the Best Debut Film
600 Miles (600 Millas), Gabriel Ripstein (Mexico)



Audi Short Film Award
Planet Σ, Momoko Seto (Japan)

Golden Bear for Best Short Film
Hosanna, Na Young-kil (South Korea)

Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film)
Bad at Dancing, Joanna Arnow (US)

Panorama Audience Award


Prize Winner Fiction Film
The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?), Anna Muylaert (Brazil)

Prize Winner Documentary Film
Tell Spring Not to Come This Year, Saeed Taji Farouky & Michael McEvoy (UK)


TEDDY AWARD 2015


The most outstanding queer film prize in the world – is a socially engaged, political honor presented to films and people who communicate queer themes on a broad social platform, thereby contributing to tolerance, acceptance, solidarity and equality in society. Every year films from all sections of the Berlin International Film Festival compete for the Teddy Awards.


 
 
Best Feature Film
Nasty Baby, Sebastián Silva (Chile/US)
 
Best Documentary/Essay Film
The New Man (El hombre nuevo), Aldo Garay (Uruguay)
 
Best Short Film
San Cristóbal, Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo (Chile)

Special Jury Award
Stories of Our Lives, Jim Chuchu (Kenya)
 
Special TEDDY AWARD: Udo Kier
 
 

Sunday, February 8, 2015

BAFTA Winners 2015

 
Complete list of the 68th BAFTA Award Winners:

BEST FILM
Boyhood - Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
The Theory of Everything - James Marsh, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony Mccarten

LEADING ACTOR
Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything


LEADING ACTRESS
Julianne Moore - Still Alice

DIRECTOR
Richard Linklater - Boyhood

SUPPORTING ACTOR
J.K. Simmons - Whiplash

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood


EE RISING STAR 2015
Jack O'Connell

FELLOWSHIP IN 2015
Mike Leigh

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel


CINEMATOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Lubezki  - Birdman


ANIMATED FILM
The Lego Movie - Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Anthony Mccarten - The Theory of Everything

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Stephen Beresford (Writer), David Livingstone (Producer) - Pride

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Alexandre Desplat - The Grand Budapest Hotel

DOCUMENTARY
Citizenfour - Laura Poitras

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Ida - Paweł  Pawlikowski

MAKE UP & HAIR
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Frances Hannon


COSTUME DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Milena Canonero


PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel -Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock

BRITISH SHORT FILM
Boogaloo and Graham - Brian J. Falconer, Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney      

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
The Bigger Picture - Chris Hees, Daisy Jacobs, Jennifer Majka

EDITING
Whiplash - Tom Cross


SOUND
Whiplash - Thomas Curley, Ben Wilkins, Craig Mann

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Interstellar - Paul Franklin, Scott Fisher, Andrew Lockley

For a complete list of nominations please visit: http://cinemaniaquefilms.blogspot.com/2015/01/bafta-awards-2015.html



Saturday, February 7, 2015

GOYA Winners 2015

Alberto Rodriguez's thriller MARSHLAND wins in 10 categories at the 29th GOYA Awards


Marshland (La isla mínima)


Here are the complete list of winners at the 29th GOYA Awards:

Best Film: Marshland (La isla mínima)

Best Director: Alberto Rodriguez for Marshland

Best New Director: Carlos Marquesk-Marcet for 10,000 km

Best Lead Actor: Javier Gutierrez for Marshland

Best Lead Actress: Barbara Lennie for Magical Girl

Best Original Screenplay: Alberto Rodriguez, Rafael Cobos for Marshland

Best Adapted Screenplay: Claro Garcia, Cristobal Ruiz, Javier Fesser for Mortadelo and Filemón Against Jimmy el Cachondo

Best Animated Film: Mortadelo and Filemón Against Jimmy el Cachondo

Best New Actor: Dani Rovira for A Spanish Affair (Ocho apellidos vascos)

Best New Actress: Nerea Barros for Marshland

Best Supporting Actress: Carmen Machi for A Spanish Affair

Best Supporting Actor: Karra Elejalde fro A Spanish Affair

Best Artistic Director: Pepe Dominguez for Marshland

Best Production Design: Edmon Roch, Toni Novella for El Niño

Best Editing: Jose M.G. Moyano for Marshland

Best Cinematography: Alex Catalán for Marshland

Best Special Effects: Guillermo Orbe, Raul Romanillos for El Niño

Best Original Score: Julio de la Rosa for Marshland

Best Original Song: “Niño sin miedo” by David Santisteban, India Martinez, Riki Rivera for El Niño

Best Sound: Marc Orts, Oriol Tarrago, Sergio Burmann for El Niño

Best Makeup and Hair Styling: Jose Quetgias, Carmen Veinat, Pedro Rodriguez for Musaranas

Best Wardrobe: Fernando Garcia for Marshland

Best Feature Documentary: Paco de Lucía: The Search

Best European Film: Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski

Best Latin American Film: Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes) by Damián Szifrón

Best Fiction Short: Café Para Llevar by Patricia Font

Best Animated Short: Juan y la Nube by Giovanni Maccelli

Best Documentary Short: Walls (If These Walls Could Talk) by Miguel Lopez Beraza

Honorary Goya Award: Antonio Banderas

For a complete list of nominations please visit: http://cinemaniaquefilms.blogspot.com/2015/01/goya-awards-2015.html

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Los Angeles - ITALIA 2015

10th Anniversary of L.A. ITALIA 2015


FEBRUARY 15 - 21, 2015
TCL CHINESE 6 THEATRES in HOLLYWOOD
ALL SCREENINGS ARE FREE

SCREENING SCHEDULE:

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15

10:30am Hands Over the City (105 min - dir. Francesco Rosi) 1963

Starring a very ferocious Rod Steiger as a scheming land developer. Francesco Rosi's Hands Over the City, is a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation that has devastated Naples's civilian landscape moves breathlessly from a cataclysmic building collapse to the backroom negotiations of civic leaders vying for power in a city council election, laying bare the inner workings of corruption with passion and outrage.

3:00pm Two Brothers in Trinity (97 min - dir. Renzo Genta and Richard Harrison) 1972

Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother. The wildly contrasting mismatched duo get into all sorts of trouble while trying to claim their inheritance.

5:00pm It Takes a Miracle! (110 min - dir. Alessandro Siani) 2015

Fulvio, an important employee of an unscrupulous and famous multinational, has been fired after a clean sweep within the company. His reaction is not exactly composed and costs him a month of social services to be served in the family home of his brother Don Germano, pastor of a small village in southern Italy. It doesn't take long for Fulvio to realize that to help his brother, the children and the country, they need a real "miracle".

7:45pm World Premiere Partly Cloudy (With Sunny Spells) (94 min - dir. Marco Pontecorvo) 2015

In a quiet town of Marche, a co-op sofa factory is on the verge of bankruptcy when two friends make an extraordinary discovery: OIL! This amazing incident sets off a series of explosive events: friendships are broken, marriages and families are threatened and the whole town is in an uproar. This is a bittersweet comedy; a sarcastic metaphor of virtues and vices in the light of contemporary Italy. The director, and the actor Luca Zingaretti will attend the screening.

10:00pm From Here to Eternity (118 min - dir. Fred Zinneman) 1953

Starring  Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed.
Set in Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones' acclaimed war novel, From Here to Eternity, brought the aspirations and frustrations of several people sharply into focus.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16

10:00am The Detective (114 min - dir. Gordon Douglas) 1968

Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs.

12:00am Ocean's 11 (127 min - dir. Lewis Milestone) 1960

During Christmas in Los Angeles, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) to rip off five Las Vegas casinos just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

2:30pm Darker Than Midnight (98 min - dir. Sebastiano Riso) 2014

Davide (Davide Capone) is fourteen years old. His delicate and effeminate looks do not fit in with his father's ideas of what a boy should be like. Fleeing the constant conflicts at home, he is drawn to Catania's biggest public park, Villa Bellini, a separate world that the rest of the city pretends not to see and whose regulars live on the outskirts of society.

4:15pm Soap Opera (86 min - dir. Alessandro Genovesi) 2014

The lives of a group of outlandish, unique and surreal characters intertwine in a condo of an unspecified Italian town while the snow falls on the city. Gianni and Mario are two brothers: Mario is in a wheelchair and he has been sharing the apartment with his brother Gianni. Francesco is a single man with a quite ebullient sex life even though he is still in love with Anna, his former love-interest who a few months after their separation, is already pregnant by a new man. Paolo is expecting a child from Elena. Alice the gorgeous neighbor, is an actress starring in a very popular TV soap opera. Actress Chiara Francini will attend the screening.

6:00pm The Indolent Judge (130 min - dir. Carlo Carlei) 2014

Alberto Lenzi, the public prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, has a bad reputation: lazy, indolent, too fond of life to spend time with work. Separated from his wife, with an 8 year old son, Henry, who feels mostly like a weight, has an affair with Marina, a police sergeant who works with him. To disrupt his life, a terrible event: Giorgio Maremmi, fellow magistrate and dear friend, is killed in an ambush. Alberto has a rude awakening: rolls up his sleeves and plunges headlong into work. Actor Luca Zingaretti will attend the screening.

8:15pm The Humbling (112 min - dir. Barry Levinson) 2014

Elderly and addled actor Simon Axler spirals into depression and finds himself on the brink of suicide after he falls into the orchestra pit during a performance. He enters into rehab and gets a new lease on life when he falls for a much younger woman, a former lesbian, who's the daughter of one of his friends. However, her sexual history leaves him wondering if his feelings for her are valid. The producers Monika Bacardi and Andrea Iervolino will attend this event.

10:30pm Il Branco (90 min - dir. Marco Risi) 1994

A group of annoyed youths, with the help of an old delinquent, kidnap two young hitchhiking tourists. They decide to rape them. Sylvia, the older of the two German tourists, understands the situation, decides to sacrifice herself to save the younger and virgin Marion. But violence increases, and also Marion is raped. An attempt to escape fails and the gang rapes Marion until she dies. For Sylvie the end of the nightmare is near.


TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

10:00am Come Into The Light (89 min - dir. Roberto Faenza) 2005

Set in 1993 Sicily, Padre Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi (Luca Zingaretti) is a priest from a mafia-controlled district of Palermo helping kids to get off the streets. In his church he creates an embracing place of hope and righteousness which means trouble for the local mafia. He continues his solitary fight until the bitter end.

11:45am Von Ryan's Express (117 min - dir. Mark Robson) 1965
Von Ryan's Express is a 1965 World War II war adventure film about a group of Allied prisoners who after Italy's armistice with the Allies in September 1943, conduct a daring mass escape by hijacking a freight train and fleeing through German-occupied Italy to Switzerland. It stars Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard, and is based on a novel by David Westheimer.

2:00pm Happily Mixed Up (89 min - dir Massimiliano Bruno) 2014

Even psychoanalysts may fall into depression! Marcello, psychoanalyst and cynical scoundrel, who one day decides to stay at home and cancel his appointments. This extreme gesture is not well received by Silvia, Marcello's secretary, who decides to gather his patients to try, all together, to get him out of the crisis. Beautiful idea except that, to help Silvia, there will be a drug dealer suffering from panic attacks, a forty chronic mama' s boy, Pasquale, an intrusive nymphomaniac, Vitaliana, a couple in sexual crisis, Henry and Betta and Michelangelo, a man in crisis for the betrayal of his wife.

4:00pm L'Oro di Scampia (100 min - dir. Marco Pontecorvo) 2014

Enzo Capuano teaches judo in a shabby gym in Scampia. Removing children from the street and educating them through sports attracts the hostility of the Camorra, to which he contracts laborers. From Enzo'a work rises a group of young judoki, the best of whic isToni, his son, a talented kid who aspires to the highest goal of a sportsman -- participating in the Olympics.

5:50pm The Hug and Let's Dare (12' – dir. Stefania Rocca) 2 shorts

The Hug – 4'
"This exactly why hugs are invented: to not feel alone...to not be alone" -- David Grossman.
The protagonists are the real students and a real teacher of a school in L'Aquila - the Italian city destroyed by a terrible earthquake in 2009 – who attend classes in a temporary shelter for 5 years.
The short film is inspired by the book "The Hug" by David Grossman and tells about a dialogue between a sweet baby and a mother, who leads the child to discover his own uniqueness and to understand that the uniqueness, although beautiful, could also take a sense of loneliness.

Let's Dare – 8'
"With love's light wings did I fly over these walls...."
An inspiration may arise from the reading of this sentence from "Romeo and Juliet." It can stir up the doubt that your fate should not be decided by the people you love and who, perhaps, you can't entrust the fundamental choices of your own existence. The fear to disappoint someone you love can turn into victims. The conviction we perfectly know what is best for the blood of our own blood,it can create executioners. A form of psychological violence that makes you weak, insecure, uncertain. A young bride seized by the doubt, unsure of its actual ability to dare, to go beyond the dictates and conventions. Only when you take courage, you meet people like us and you turn out not to be alone.

6.15 Documentary Club Dogo in L.A. (22 min - dir. Marco Salom)

After having enormous hits in 2012 with the success of their solo songs, Don Joe, Gue 'Pequeno and Jake La Furia joined together to create a new album "We Do Not More Of Those I Fist". What better place to return to make music than Los Angeles? "Dogo in LA" is, a documentary film that follows the trio struggling with their experience in California, including the recording studio, the shooting of two videos, Los Angeles meetings and nightlife.

6:45pm The Clothes Merchant (88 min - dir. Antonio Baiocco) 2009

An ancient legend becomes a predicament to the faith of two lovers coming from very different cultural, religious and social backgrounds. Actor Sebastiano Somma will attend the screening.

8:30pm Man, Pride and Vengeance (91 min - dir. Luigi Bazzoni) 1967

When stalwart Spanish soldier Don José meets the stunningly beautiful Carmen, he becomes instantly obsessed with the mysterious gypsy woman. After discovering she has cheated on him with his Lieutenant, José kills the officer during a brawl and flees the city. Forced to become a bandit, José partners with Carmen's villainous husband Garcia to rob a stagecoach and prove his love for the seductive femme fatale. Actor Franco Nero will attend the screening.

10:15pm 'Tis Pity She's A Whore (105 min dir. Giuseppe Patroni Griffi) 1971

Annabella marries Soranzo, while she is pregnant by her brother Giovanni. Destiny, and jealousies will expose her past, and Soranzo broods revenge. But he is not alone in that - and death will unite all.


WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

10:00am Forever Mary (105 min - dir. Marco Risi) 1989

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a teaching job in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamored of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself.

12:00am The Ice Forest (99 min - dir. Claudio Noce) 2014

A mystery lurks behind the apparent tranquillity of an Alpine village. As a storm approaches menacingly in the background, Pietro, a young expert technician, comes to the valley to repair a malfunction at the high-altitude electrical plant. He is suddenly involved in a strange disappearance that leads him to clash with Lorenzo and Secondo, who live and work in the area. When the young man figures out the origin of the secrets hidden in the heart of the valley, the tensions explode with extreme cruelty and spark a play of distorting mirrors in which everyone falls under the lens of suspicion.

1:50pm All the Women in My Life (101 min - dir Simona Izzo) 2007

When the owner of the restaurant where he works, tired of his prima ballerina behavior and the many betrayals of his wife, decides to fire him, David is in crisis and goes looking for all the women in his life. All committed to forget him: Monica, mother of his child now engaged to her former assistant, her mother Dorothy, his long time partner Stefania and the gourmet Isabella.

3:45pm Blood Brothers (130 min - dir. Pasquale Squitieri) 1974

In this period piece set in Italy, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him reach his goals, he discovers that some of his blood relations are high-ranking members of the Mafia. He tries to break away from his family obligations, but falls into a life of crime and violence. Actor Fabio Testi will attend the screening.

6:00pm Master Stroke (111 min - dir. Michele Lupo) 1967

An actor agrees to assume the role of Mr. Owen, inspector to the levy of diamonds at General Diamond London. In this way his principals manage to get their hands on a stock of the precious jewels. But all this is not news to the head of the British Secret Service.

8.10pm The Manager Italiano (15' – dir. Alessandro Cuomo) short

Italo is the owner of a family-run restaurant located in West Hollywood. When his father dies,the restaurant begins to crumble and customers become scarce. Almost on the verge of bankruptcy he seeks advice from his friend Antonio, owner of many successful restaurants in Beverly Hills.

8:30pm African-Gothic (90 min - dir. Gabriel Bologna) 2014

The tale begins with Frikkie and Sussie, living on an isolated country farm. Together, they both share the unresolved pain of the brutal punishment they had both received at the hands of their Boer parents, who would often wield the Sjambok on their own children. Their farm now lays in ruin and in the grip of an endless drought. The two lovers have rejected reality, creating a fantasy world in which they hope they will be saved by the miracle of a subterranean spring. The director and cast members will attend the screening.

10:10pm Do You See Me? (106 min - dir. Riccardo Milani) 2014

Serena is an extraordinarily talented architect. After a series of professional successes abroad, she decides to return to work in Italy. In a desperate search for a job she has to face an incredible decision: to pass for what everyone expects you to be: a man. Meanwhile she meets Francesco. Handsome and charming. The ideal companion. Except that he does not like women ... Or so it seems. Together they will help each other face the adversities and complications of life. Actor Raoul Bova will attend the screening.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19

10:00am Some Came Running (137 min- dir. Vincente Minnelli) 1958

Dave Hirsch, a writer and army veteran, returns to 1948 Parkman, Indiana, his hometown. His prosperous brother introduces him to Gwen French, a local teacher. But the more flamboyant Ginny has followed him to Parkton, where he also meets gambler Bama Dillert. Dave must come to terms with his roots and with his future.

12:30am Greenery Will Bloom Again (80 min - dir. Ermanno Olmi) 2014

We are in the North-East, after the latest bloody clashes of 1917 on the plateaus. The story takes place in the time of a single night. The events follow each other always in an unpredictable way: sometimes long waits where fear makes you count, moment by moment, until that moment when it's up to you. So much so that the peace of the mountain is a place where you die.

2:00pm The Greatest School in the World (98 min - dir. Luca Miniero) 2014

Christian De Sica is the punctilious headmaster of a secondary school in Tuscany, where a class of students from Naples accompanied by an eccentric professor come to visit. But not everything seems to be with the the program. Due to a technology glitch, Accra, Ghana, becomes Acerra, Naples - which causes a misunderstanding that will cause plenty of confusion and disarray.

4:00pm Mother Teresa (110 min - dir. Fabrizio Costa) 2003

This miniseries traces the milestones of the story of Mother Teresa, from her childhood in Albania in the '20s to her first missionary call, from the choice to stay close to the poorest of the poor, to the difficulties on founding the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity, and on to the hard and exhausting work completed with the sisters in Calcutta before and afterwards throughout the world. The audience will follow Mother Teresa in the streets, in the alleys of the slums in contact with its people, and will investigate the smiles, the caresses and roughness against those who wanted to block her way. Actor Sebastiano Somma will attend the screening.

6:15pm Three Wives (105 min - dir. Marco Risi) 2001

Beatrice is the manager of a bank branch, Bianca is the chief cashier and Billie is a security guard. On New Year's Eve they are abandoned by their husbands who had their shot at life. They subtracted nine billion euros and disappeared. A year later, the three women have finally found peace when they learn that the three husbands were seen in Argentina. The three women decide to go to there, where they will discover new insights to themselves and married life. The director will attend the screening.

8:15pm World Premiere Calibro 10 (93 min - dir. Massimo Ivan Falsetta)

Paradais is the undisputed right hand man of the boss, his silence frightens everyone, he loves money more than his beautiful wife Nina and his passion is to take the bribe money and channel it in hundreds of directions. Nina is the woman who no normal man could resist. But Biancosarti is anything but Normal -- his obsession is her, her legs, his sex and his guns. For Nina the role of the wife is not enough and aspires to something more important. Conspiracies, treason, corruption, claustrophobia come together in this compelling story. Actor Franco Nero will attend the screening.

10:00pm Sing For You – Live From Detroit (89 min – dir. George Schlatter) 1989

Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Liza Minnelli - three amazing icons of American popular song, appear together on one stage – the Fox Theater in Detroit. The time is 1988, and these three powerhouse superstars are in fine voice, each bringing their uniquely personal style and artistry to a SRO evening of classic music. Each gets to do a solo portion, and each brings down the house.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20

10:00am Il Sorpasso (105 min - dir. Dino Risi) 1962

The Easy Life (Il Sorpasso) begins on a summer's day in Rome when Roberto (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a withdrawn young scholar encounters Bruno (Vittorio Gassman), a middle-aged man driving a stylish convertible. This chance meeting leads to drinks and eventually to an extended road trip out of the city. As the unlikely pair spend time together, they find out more about each other and even visit respective family members. An unpredictable journey that's a wildly entertaining commentary on the pleasures and consequences of the good life.

12:00am Documentary No Pass (62 min - dir Paolo Burioni)

The idea of No Pass is to present the soccer World Cup in Brazil without ever showing the World Cup, but everything that surrounds it through the eyes of a quixotic reporter from a local TV station that does not have a game pass. The idea is to look where there are no cameras, listen to people on their way to the stadium. From Manaus to Salvador. From Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. From the Amazon forest to the favelas of Rio.

1:00pm Parting is Such a Sweet Sorrow (80 min - dir. Simone Gandolfo and Gianluca della Monica) CANCELED

Some of the best known contemporary Italian authors have written seven scenes of farewell. A goodbye can be many different things, and the authors have had the freedom to explore every possible narrative whilst remaining faithful to only three simple rules: each story has to be set in a single environment, using two characters and can be written up to ten folders.

2:30pm Mirror, Memories, Sugar Plum Fairy, Giuseppe Verdi, Memorie Nel Petto – 4 shorts

Mirror dir. Nick Coppola – '10
A girl in her early twenties realizes she has just woken up in a bedroom with a mirror that reveals her future.

Memories dir. Vincenzo Alfieri – 25'
In a world without time and identity, Andrew is a young ex cop, beset by his own nightmares. Fired by the police because of his bizarre behavior and its dependence by alcohol, lives alone and bound in his apartment. Andrew has been chasing for a long to a dangerous criminal known as: The Barbie Killer, so called because he usually leave a barbie near the drowned bodies of his victim.

Sugar Plum Fairy dir. Marco Renda – 13'
A ballerina, an audition, a lifetime spent dreaming, trying to fly...

Giuseppe Verdi, Memorie Nel Petto dir. Emanuela Morozzi – 18'
"Memories in the Chest" is a story seated in inspiration and the subtle world of creation; based on an incident that, according to several biographies, really happened. Giuseppe Verdi's manager, Bartolomeo Merelli, was the one who suggested to the composer the book that inspired Nabucco. Established this event, we have created a realistic and also dream-like environment where the passage from the darkness of a troubled and unhappy life into the light is perfectly represented, a light that will bring the success of the magnificent Opera.

3:45pm The Blue Kiss (85 min – dir. Pino Tordiglione) 2015

The engineer Ciretti works at the aqueduct as Head of Technical Services. Following the rupture of a main pipe, the engineer undertakes the challenge to come to a quick resolution. Meanwhile, Francesco, a boy of ten years old is enticed by his schoolteacher on a journey to discover the water. The child will find himself on a trip between villages and mountains, accompanied by his grandfather. Actor Sebastiano Somma will attend the screening.

5:15pm Life is a Stage (100 min - dir. Marco Risi) 2014


Six stories of actors, or rather, stories of men, with all their passions and frustrations, joys and disappointments, successes and failures. Profoundly different lives united by two great passions: football and work. In between workouts and auditions their lives continuously intersect, reveal their miserable existence, every now and then made up also of success and moments of glory, but certainly never made up of true, absolute happiness. The producers Monika Bacardi and Andrea Iervolino, and the director will attend the screening.

7:45pm Ever Been to the Moon? (119 min - dir. Paolo Genovese) 2015

Gulia works for a prestigious international fashion magazine, she drives a luxurious spider, travels by private jet and lives in Milan and Paris. She has everything - or at least she thought she had everything - until she finds herself in a remote village in Puglia where she meets Renzo, a fascinating local farmer. She then understands that the only thing that is missing from her life is love, the real one. And when happiness is one step away from her, she will not know how to attain it. The director and actor Raoul Bova will attend the screening.

10:00pm World Premiere Hope Lost (97 min - dir. David Petrucci) 2015

A young Romanian girl, bored with small-town life, dreams of entering the glamorous world she sees on Italian soap operas. One night at a club, she meets Gabriel, who claims to be a TV producer who wants to cast her in a reality TV show he is making in Italy. But when she arrives, she is sold to the pimp Manol and forced to make her living on the street. Things get darker with the arrival of Ettore, a sadist who makes snuff movies. The producers Monika Bacardi and Andrea Iervolino will attend the screening.


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21

10:00am The Grand Budapest Hotel (100 min - dir. Wes Anderson) 2014

The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel in the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. Costumes by Academy Award-winner Milena Canonero.

11:50am Documentary Remembering The Artist Robert De Niro, Sr. (40 min -dir. Geeta Gandbhir, Perri Peltz) 2014

Robert De Niro, Sr. was part of the celebrated New York School of artists who enjoyed success in his early career during the 1940's and 50's in New York City. His paintings blended abstract and expressionist styles with a representational subject matter, bridging the divide between European Modernism and Abstract Expressionism. His work was shown at Peggy Guggenheim's "Art of This Century" Gallery and was reviewed in many of the most respected art publications of the day.

12:40pm Fort Apache Napoli (108 min - dir. Marco Risi) 2009

Fortapàsc re-creates the last four months in the life of 26-year-old journalist Giancarlo Siani during the period in which he begins an investigation into the connection between local government and the Comorra, the Neapolitan mafia. The director will attend the screening.

2:45pm Sete, Krineide, The Paranoids 3 shorts

Sete dir. Antonio Braucci – 7'
Italy, World War II. Vico Equense play as a timeless background to an unlikely love story, a story of contrasts and contradictions, of strong passions.Antonio, a pure, prisoner of the fake respectability of his time. Marie, muse of passion, inspiring and unaware of strong and violent impulses.

Krineide dir. Roberto Flammia - 20'
In a dystopian reality, alternative and futuristic, the whole society is under strict control of the ICS paramilitary regime. His hierarchs, over time, have decided to manipulate the female genome in order to affirm the stereotype of perfect beauty, tall, blonde with blue eyes.However nature shows its indomitability with the birth of Joel, a baby girl with different eyes, hair and character.

The Paranoids dir. Camillo Brena and Matteo Mercanti - 27'
The film focuses on the paranoia and hallucinations of a common person with paranoid schizophrenia. The protagonist is a man who fights drama day to day of living with the psychopathy that afflicts him. To try to dominate the rampage and obsessions that his brain creates, he must always remember to take a pill. One day he goes to the barber and unfortunately the last remaining pill falls into the sink. From that moment on the panic, demonic figures and various alter egos take the domain of its reality. A woman who crossed the street, becomes the only lifeline to try to return to his daily life and his own perception of normality.

3:45pm Documentary Off Stage: Lontano dal palco (75 min - dir. Francesco Cinquemani) 2014

Off Stage is a documentary featuring a group of convict-actors. Among them are the former leading performers in the award-winning "Caesar Must Die". The Film tells the stories of convicts serving long term imprisonment and life sentences, exemplifying the history of crime that has affected Italy. The director will attend the screening.

5:15pm World Premiere The Colossal Failure of the Modern Relationship (96 min - dir Sergio Navarretta) 2014

Cat has a mediocre job, a mundane social life and her relationship with Freddy has been, well...uninspired. Enters Richard, Freddy's boss. Charming, gregarious, astute, and shockingly self-confident, he promises to be everything Freddy is not. Cat and Richard's brief encounter evolves into an affair. Overwhelmed by her own guilt, however, she breaks it off to make a final, sincere attempt to reignite the flame with Freddy with a romantic trip to the wine country. The director and cast members will attend the screening.

7:00pm The Only Child Bros (89 min - dir. Alessio Maria Federici) 2014

Peter is a claimed man that no longer knows how to love, Francis is an eternal boy who has never loved. They are brothers, but they have spent all their lives with the desire of being an only child. An accident causes Peter to lose his memory, Peter now is like a child. His ex-wife Julia is about to remarry, and wants nothing to do with him, so Francis is forced to take him home and, for the first time, to play the part of the adult. Actor Raoul Bova will attend the screening.