By Laura Delli Colli*<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nThe great beauty of Italian cinema: imagination, quality, and a creativity that seems to be going in a new direction, during one the most difficult time for everyone. The selection brought to Los Angeles by Cinema Italian Style 2021, from Cinecitt\u00e0 to Hollywood, expresses a sign of vitality aligned with what happened during the major Film Festivals: now more than ever, Italian cinema is going through a huge renaissance and incredible international visibility.<\/p>\n
The core of the selection comes straight from the last edition of the Venice International Film Festival, that stood up even to the unbeatable Cannes.<\/p>\n
Cinema Italian Style 2021 presents an eclectic selection to the audience of Seattle and Los Angeles including, as always, the title chosen to represent Italy at the Academy Awards, the most awaited competition of the year: the movie from the Oscar\u00ae-winning director Paolo Sorrentino \u201cThe Hand of God\u201d is the most emotional, surprising, and intimate movie of his filmography. The film received unanimous consensus by both press and audiences during the Venice Film Festival, confirmed by the Italian public which is still celebrating it in theaters.<\/p>\n
Together with the premiere of the film, Cinecitt\u00e0 joins the American Cinematheque and Netflix to bring, from December 9th<\/sup> to 13th<\/sup> in two prestigious Los Angeles\u2019 theaters, a tribute dedicated to Sorrentino with four of his titles: \u201cIl Divo\u201d, \u201cThe Consequences of Love\u201d, \u201cYouth\u201d and of course his \u201cThe Great Beauty\u201d, Oscar\u00ae winner and loved by American audiences. The public will have the chance to meet the director during these events.<\/p>\nThe work odf another Maestro of Italian cinema, Giuseppe Tornatore, will be back to Los Angeles and to the Academy Awards with his tribute \u201cEnnio\u201d, a journey through seventy years of the music of the great Ennio Morricone, narrating it himself together with colleagues and friends (from Gianni Morandi to Quentin Tarantino). The movie retracts the amazing story of a genius composer, reminding the simplicity of an extraordinary character that never forgot the relationship between the cinema and his most beloved authors, not even on the most prestigious theaters\u2019 podiums.<\/p>\n
Sorrentino, Tornatore and his tribute to Ennio Morricone: is there a more outstanding way to begin this edition\u2019s journey? The current times and the pandemic risk, for sure, are depriving us once more of the pleasure of close encounters, but Cinema Italian Style lights up the spotlight on this films and authors\u2019 season. A season that, despite the hard times, never forgot their public and brought the cinema back on set, on festivals screens and now in the States, thanks to a selection that highlights authors, genres, and interesting debut films.<\/p>\n
A partially live event with an audience that recognize to our cinema his absolute primacy.<\/p>\n
We can\u2019t forget, indeed, that Italy is the country with the largest amount of Best International Film Oscar\u00ae awards: 28 Oscar\u00ae<\/span> nominations, 14 Awards, 3 Lifetime Achievement Awards. An absolute primacy that makes Sorrentino and Tornatore\u2019s await very important, this year.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n*President of Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (Sngci) and of Fondazione Cinema per Roma <\/em>curates the artistic selection of Cinema Italian Style<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-14757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-62","tag-57"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemaitalianstyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemaitalianstyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemaitalianstyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemaitalianstyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemaitalianstyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14757"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cinemaitalianstyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14770,"href":"https:\/\/cinemaitalianstyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions\/14770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemaitalianstyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemaitalianstyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemaitalianstyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemaitalianstyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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