The Cinema Made in Italy program promotes and distributes contemporary Italian films to theaters in the United States, insuring that the best of Italian cinema is always available to fans, no matter where they live in the country. The series is an initiative sponsored by Istituto Luce Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission, and is managed by Deutchman Company Inc, which handles the marketing and distribution of the films. In previous years, the initiative has released or supported such films as Paolo Sorrentino’s Academy Award winning Best Foreign Language Film,“The Great Beauty,” Valeria Golino’s “Honey,” Marco Bellochio’s “Dormant Beauty,” Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Me and You,” Nanni Moretti’s “Mia Madre” and Gianfranco Rosi’s Academy Award nominated Best Documentary, “Fire at Sea” among others.
“LORO” A Film by Paolo Sorrentino Starring Toni Servillo
Sex, drugs, power, and vice: welcome to the mid-2000s Italy of Silvio Berlusconi, the egomaniac billionaire Prime Minister who presides over an empire of scandal and corruption. Sergio (Riccardo Scamarcio) is an ambitious young hustler managing an escort service catering to the rich and powerful. Determined to move up in the world, Sergio sets his sights on the biggest client of all: Berlusconi (Toni Servillo), the disgraced, psychotically charming businessman and ex-PM currently plotting his political comeback. As Berlusconi attempts to bribe his way back to power, Sergio devises his own equally audacious scheme to win the mogul’s attention. Exploding with eye-popping, extravagantly surreal set-pieces, the dazzling, daring new film from Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) is both a wickedly subversive satire and a furious elegy for a country crumbling while its leaders enrich themselves.
September 20, 2019
IFC CEnter New York City
September 27, 2019
Laemmle Royal Theater West Los Angeles
Clay Theater San Francisco, CA
Squire Cinemas Great Neck, NY
Roslyn Cinemas 4 Roslyn Heights, NY
October 4, 2019
Claremont 5 Claremont, CA
Town Center 5 Encino, CA
Playhouse 7 Pasadena, CA
Shea 14 Scottsdale, CA
E Street Cinema Washington, DC
Main Street Cinema 1-6 New City, NY
Town Hall Theater Wilton, NH
Garden Cinemas Norwalk, CT
Jacob Burns Film Center Pleasantville, NY
Camelot Theater Palm Springs, CA
October 11, 2019
Broadway Metro 7 Eugene, OR
Red Cinemas Midtown Stadium 15 Greensboro, NC
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center Lincoln, NE
Wolfchase Cinema Memphis, TN
Cinema Paradiso-Hollywood Hollywood, FL
Barnstorm Theater The Villages, FL
Ritz 5 Philadelphia, PA
Screenland Crossroads Kansas City, MO
Living Room Theaters Portland, OR
Nickelodeon Cinemas Portland, ME
SIFF Cinema Uptown Seattle, WA
Garden 7 Greenfield, MA
Cinemapolis Ithaca, NY
Cinema Arts Center Huntington, NY
West Newton Cinema 6 West Newton, MA
Gateway Film Center Columbus, OH
Esquire Theater Denver, CO
Village Cinema 8 Louisville, KY
Lagoon Cinema Minneapolis, MN
Tivoli Theater St. Louis, MO
Criterion Cinemas New Haven, CT
Film Noir Cinema Brooklyn, NY
Criterion Cinemas at Movieland Richmond, VA
Santikos Bijou Cinema Bistro San Antonio, TX
Yakima Cinema Yakima, WA
Screenland Armour Theater North Kansas City, MO
October 18, 2019
International Film Series @ UC Boulder Boulder, CO
Charlotte Film Society Charlotte, NC
Fort Wayne Cinema Center Fort Wayne, IN
Celebration Cinema Woodland 14 Grand Rapids, MI
Liberty Theater Camas, WA
OSIO Plaza Cinema Monterey, CA
Spectrum 8 Theaters Albany, NY
Keystone Art Cinema 7 Indianapolis, IN
Film Streams at the Ruth Sokoof Theater Omaha, NE
Tristone Cinemas Palm Desert 10 Palm Desert, CA
October 25, 2019
CCA Cinematheque Santa Fe, NM
Cosford Cinema Coral Gables, FL
November 1, 2019
Guild Cinema Albuquerque, NM
Zeitgeist Theater & Lounge Arabi, LA
Acoustic Java Cafe and Microcinema Providence, RI
November 2, 2019
Kihei Cinemas Kihei, Hawaii
November 4, 2019
Bear Tooth Cinema Anchorage, AK
November 13, 2019
Boedecker Theater – Dairy Center for the Arts Boulder, CO
November 15, 2019
Cinematheque of Daytona Daytona Beach, FL
November 24, 2019
Alamo Drafthouse Westminster 9 Westminster, CO
January 2, 2020
Cleveland Cinematheque Cleveland, OH
The Disappearance of My Mother
“THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MY MOTHER” A Film by Beniamino Barrese
Benedetta wants to disappear. An iconic fashion model in the 1960s, she became a muse to Warhol, Dali, Penn and Avedon. As a radical feminist in the 1970s, she fought for the rights and emancipation of women. But at the age of 75, she becomes fed up with all the roles that life has imposed upon her and decides to leave everything and everybody behind, to disappear to a place as far as possible from the world she knows.
Hiding behind the camera, her son Beniamino witnesses her journey. Having filmed her since he was a child in spite of all her resistance, he now wants to make a film about her, to keep her close for as long as possible – or, at least, as long as his camera keeps running.
The making of the film turns into a battle between mother and son, a stubborn fight to capture the ultimate image of Benedetta – the image of her liberation.
Official Selection, 2019 Sundance Film Festival
“I’ll
add to my list of heroines Benedetta Barzini, an Italian 1960s supermodel who
became a leftist feminist and mother… One of the most moving and complex
films at Sundance.” – Amy Taubin, Film
Comment
“One
of several memorable documentaries in this year’s Sundance Film Festival…
Deeply personal and shot through with fascinating contradictions, THE
DISAPPEARANCE OF MY MOTHER is a portrait of a woman in rebellion… Barzini is
a severe, unsparing critic of the commodification and exploitation of the
female body by men, which greatly complicates her son’s insistent, at times
intrusive gaze. It also deepens the movie, making the personal ferociously
political.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
December 6, 2019
Quad Cinema New York City
December 13, 2019
Laemmle Music Hall 3 Santa Monica, CA
January 10. 2020
Gateway Film Center Columbus, OH
Harkins Shea 14 Scottsdale, AZ
January 17, 2020
Speed Art Museum Louisville, KY
Coming Soon to a theater near you
The Traitor
“THE TRAITOR” a film by Marco Bellocchio
Called “Dazzling” by the Hollywood Reporter, “The Traitor” is the movie that at long last tells the true story of the man who took down the Mafia.
Official Selection: 2019 Cannes Film Festival 2019 Toronto International Film Festival 2019 New York Film Festival
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