London – London pays tribute to the Italian director Mario Monicelli on the centenary of his birth, screening some of the most important films in the history of Italian cinema. The three-day event also remembers the hundred years since the beginning of the First World War. On Tuesday, June 23, the Italian Institute of Culture will screen the documentary “I Sentieri della Gloria”, to be followed by a round table with Lorenzo Codelli, deputy director of the Cineteca del Friuli, and Mark Le Fanu who teaches Documentary History and Aesthetics at UCL. On Wednesday, June 24 there will be a double feature with “I Compagni” (“The Organizer”, in 1963, starring Marcello Mastroianni) and “La Grande Guerra” (“The Great War”, 1959, starring Vittorio Gassman and Alberto Sordi) at Regent Street starting from 6:30pm. Finally, on Sunday, June 28 at 6:30pm, “The Great War” will be screened at Genesis Cinema, followed by a discussion moderated by Guido Bonsaver, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Oxford and Italian contributor to BBC radio on Italian cinema in the World Service section. (9Colonne)
