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Oct. 10 - Oct. 17, 2004 |
Italy's abundance of festivals
Movie events take place in the beautiful cities of Viareggio, Asolo and Salento
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2004-09-26
While the Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Ottawa film festivals are in full swing during the month of September, Italy also has its share of movie events.
From September 27 to October 2, it's EuropaCinema in the beautiful city of Viareggio. The European film festival was conceived and founded in Rimini in 1984 by Felice Laudadio, the director of the TaorminaFilmFest since 1999, and of the Venice Film Festival in 1997 and 1998.
EuropaCinema's logotype and the first poster were conceived by Federico Fellini and successively realized by famous names such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Ettore Scola, Marcello Mastroianni, and Ingmar Bergman.
Due to its immediate extraordinary success, EuropaCinema became at once one of the most famous and known festivals in Europe, considered by producers, distributors and authors as a valid alternative to the Venice Film Festival. In September 1989, the festival finally moved to Viareggio.
At EuropaCinema, hundreds of Italian and foreign premieres are screened. Though at press time no titles have been announced, among the most significant films of the past include Another Time, Another Place by Michael Radford, Loose Connections by Richard Eyre, My Beautiful Laundrette by Stephen Frears, I Hired a Contract Killer by Aki Käurismaki, The Killing Fields by Roland Joffé, No Man's Land by Alain Tanner, Paris Texas by Wim Wenders, Zuckerbaby by Percy Adlon, Four Weddings and a Funeral by Mike Newell, Jean de Florette by Claude Berri, Matador by Pedro Almodóvar, 84 Charing Cross Road by David Jones, Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore, I ragazzi di via Panisperna by Gianni Amelio, Hope and Glory by John Boorman, The Dead by John Huston, Mignon č partita by Francesca Archibugi, Ay, Carmela! by Carlos Saura, La settimana della sfinge by Daniele Luchetti, Benny's Video by Michael Haneke, Monsieur Hire by Patrice Leconte, Funny Bones by Peter Chelsom, Priest by Antonia Bird, Trainspotting by Danny Boyle and Run by Akira Kurosawa who, like several authors before him, preferred to present the world-premiere of his film in Viareggio instead of the Venice Film Festival.
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