(Jun. 4) Italy on the red carpet in New York for “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema”. The festival, which now is in its fifteenth year, kicks off as the largest event dedicated to contemporary Italian cinema in the United States. Organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in partnership with Istituto Luce Cinecittà and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, Italian Trade Commission, Italian House Zerilli Marimo, for eight days it will present to the public in New York, until 11 June, at the Walter Reade Theater, a wide selection of the most important Italian flicks produced this year. The 2015 program, edited by the Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Dennis Lim, professor at NYU, former film editor of the Village Voice and collaborator of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, and Isa Cucinotta, will feature four daily screenings for 16 titles. Among these, three movies have a US release: “I nostril ragazzi” by Ivano De Matteo (Film Movement), “Cloro” Lamberto Sanfelice (Uncork’d), “Natural Resistance” by Jonathan Nossiter (Filmbuff).
