(Feb 15) – On the eve of the Academy Awards, the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival is back with an homage to the director Sergio Corbucci, whose Spaghetti Western Django is currently being remade by Quentin Tarantino.
A special award is bestowed on set designers Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo, 2012 Oscar nominees in the category ‘Art Direction’ for Martin Scorsese’s movie ‘Hugo’. Previews, performances, awards, and lectures promote the best of new Italian cinema as well as fashion, music and entertainment. Other than Corbucci’s movies (Django, 1966; The Mercenary, 1968; Companeros, 1970), the program includes the screening of italian films from the recent season:
20 cigarettes (2011) by A. Amadei, The Entrepreneur (2012) by G. Montaldo, Benvenuti al Nord (2012) by L. Minero, The Cardboard Village (2011) by E. Olmi, La peggiore settimana della mia vita (2011) by A. Genovesi, I soliti idioti (2011) by E. Lando, Ex – Amici come prima (2011) by C. Vanzina, Ameriqua (2011) by M. Bellone, Lessons in Chocolate 2 (2011) by A. M. Federici, C’è chi dice no (2011) by G. Avellino , Things from Another World (2011) by F. Patierno, Make a Fake (201111) by G. Albanese, Pivano Blues – Sulla strada di Nanda (2011) by T. Marchesi, Bar sport (2011) by M. Martelli , One Day More (2011) by M. Venier , Questa storia qua (2011) by A. Paris and S. Righetti, Apartment in Athens ( 201111) by R. Di Paola, Immature – Generation Crash (2011) by P. Genovese, Come è bello far l’amore (2011) di F. Brizzi. (Peg)
LOS ANGELES ITALIA 2012: ITALY GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
The 2012 edition of the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival, on his 7th edition, will be held from February 19th to 25th at the Chinese 6 teather of Hollywood. President of tof the Festival is the director Pupi Avati who will present his new film ‘Il cuore grande delle ragazze’. Among the other jurors: Aurelio De Laurentiis, producer, Franco Nero, actor, and Lina Wertmuller, director. The event is organized by the institute ‘Capri nel Mondo’, in collaboration with the IIC of Los Angeles, RAI, Cinecittà Studio, HollyWood Chamber of Commerce, USC and NIAF.
