NEW ITALIAN CINEMA (SFFS 13-20 NOV 2011)The San Francisco Film Society presents this series, which I will be covering, a program of a dozen films, with 8 new films in competition for the audience-balloted City of Forence Award. These are:
THE FATHER AND THE FOREIGNER (Ricky Tognazzi 2011)THE FIRST ASSIGNMENT (Giorgia Cecere 2011)THE JEWEL Andrea Malaoli 2010 110 minONE LIFE, MAYBE TWO Alessandro Arondino 2010 88 minA QUIET LIFE Claudio Cupellini 2010 103 minSOME SAY NO Giambattista Avellini 2011 95 minTHIS WORLD IS FOR YOU Francesco Falaschi 2011 82 min20 CIGARETTES Aureliano Amadei 2010 94 minIn addition the director Daniele Lucchetti is featured with these three films:
OUR LIFE Daniele Lucchetti 2010, 98 min(Opening night)
GINGER AND CINNAMON 2003 103 min
IT'S HAPPENING TOMORROW 1987 87 MIN
And the special closing night film will be:
HABEMUS PAPAM (We Have a Pope) Nanni Moretti 2011 102 min(I reviewed that one from Paris last month.)