From February 1st through 21st, with repeat screenings through the 28th, Casa del Cinema will host the film series “Once upon a time it was 1975”, twelve memorable movies that will be shown fifty years after their release in theatres. The series will be inaugurated, Saturday February 1st at 6 pm, by One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Miloš Forman, an extraordinary reflection upon the individual’s battle against the system, which won five Oscars® including Best Film. On the same day at 8:30 pm, the screening will feature Profondo rosso by Dario Argento, a peerless film, unprecedented in Italian cinema, and unforgettable for its brilliant narrative structure and obsessive suspense.
The next day at 6 pm, there will be a screening of Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick: shot entirely under natural light and filled with references to the great paintings of the eighteenth century, the film remains one of the most extraordinary visual experiences ever offered by cinema.
On Monday February 3rd at 8 pm, the audience is invited to see Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, a shining example of the irreverent and nonsensical humour of the famous English comedy troupe.
Tuesday February 4th at 8 pm, there will be screening of Zorro by Duccio Tessari in which Alain Delon offers what is probably the most memorable of all portrayals of the character created by Johnston McCulley.
Wednesday February 5th at 8 pm, the programme will present Dog Day Afternoon, one of Sidney Lumet’s most tense and compelling films, thanks to the extraordinary performances by Al Pacino, John Cazale and Charles Durning.
Friday February 7th at 6 pm, there will be a screening of Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, the last and most controversial film by Pier Paolo Pasolini, which adapts the eponymous novel by De Sade to Italy in the Fascist era. At 8:30 pm, the screening will present Three Days of the Condor by Sidney Pollack, one of the great films about American paranoia in the 1970s, when every corner concealed a danger, every face an enemy.
On Sunday February 9th at 11 am, Casa del Cinema will present Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze) by Lina Wertmuller who, thanks to this film, was the first woman to be nominated at the Oscars® for Best Director.
On Wednesday February 12th at 8 pm, audiences are invited to see Duck in Orange Sauce (L’anatra all’arancia) by Luciano Salce, adapted from the play by William Douglas Home and Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, starring the extraordinary Ugo Tognazzi and Monica Vitti.
The next day at 6 pm there will be a screening of Fantozzi by Luciano Salce, the first, corrosive chapter in the misadventures of the character invented by Paolo Villaggio, filled with gags that have rightfully become part of the collective imagination.
The series ends on Friday February 21st at 8 pm with The Man Who Would be King by John Huston, an anti-imperialist and anti-colonial parable that reveals human vanity and reflects upon the fragility of ambition and the illusory nature of power.