Events Calendar 2010
 James River Filmmakers Forum
7:30 pm, Location: Balliceaux, 203 N. Lombardy St., Richmond, VA
Admission $3
The Filmmakers Forum is the RMIC program designed to bring together area filmmakers and others interested in independent filmmaking for an evening of film screenings and discussion. More details to come.
Featuring the following filmmakers and their films:
- Megan Holley - Squashing Ticks (short film)
- Todd Raviotta - directors montage
- Jeff Roll - La Mere Vipere – First Command (music video)
- Necole Zayatz - The Objective Case of WE (experimental video)
- Eric Miller - Taste The Blood of Frankenstein (comedy)
More information on these filmmakers and how to submit your films to the forum >>
| Saturday, February 20, 2010 |
 7th Italian Film & Food Festival
Plant Zero Art Center
0 East 4th Street, Richmond, VA
Combine
classic and groundbreaking Italian films with classic and mouthwatering Italian
food to experience a feast for the
all the senses.
Tickets for individual films: $15 per person. Tickets for individual films will only be sold at the box office the day of festival. Once the box office opens, you can purchase tickets for any of the four films.
All-day passes: $45 per person. Passes will be available for advance purchase at Video Fan, 403 Strawberry Street, beginning February 1, as well as the day of the festival.
Included with each ticket: a classic Italian film pared with mouthwatering Italian food and coffee. Italian beer, wine and other beverages will be available for purchase.
All films will be presented in Italian with English subtitles.
Sponsored by Mamma ‘Zu, 8 ½, Edo’s Squid, Caffe Espresso & Richmond Moving Image Co-op
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following 4 films will be screened: |
 11 am
I PUGNI IN TASCA (FISTS IN THE POCKET)
Directed by Marco Bellocchio (1965, 105 mins., b&w)
Part of the Second Italian Renaissance, writer-director Bellocchio shocked Italy with this first feature – a stark and memorable portrayal of bourgeois dysfunction and murder. Burdened by his own epilepsy and as weary caregiver for his blind mother and three epileptic brothers, the hero makes a rational decision to end the family curse. This is one of the great, unheralded films to emerge from Italy in the sixties. With Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masestar. |
 2 pm
ALLEGRO NON TROPPO
Directed by Bruno Bozzetto (1976, 80 mins., color)
A major art-house hit upon its release, Bozzetto’s sly take on Disney’s Fantasia is a boisterous voyage of the imagination. From fantastic animation sequences set to music by Vivaldi, Debussy, Ravel, Dvorak and Stravinsky, animator Bozzetto intercuts an oafish orchestra conductor and slapstick live-action segments starring Maurizio Nichetti (The Icicle Thief). Fun for the whole family! |
 5 pm
UMBERTO D.
Directed by Vittorio De Sica (1952, 90 mins., b&w)
Considered by De Sica to be his best, Umberto D. is often cited as the last true neorealist film of Italy’s vibrant post-war period. Scripted by the legendary Cesare Zavattini, it comes closer than any other film of the era in capturing the daily existence of the common man – here, Umberto D., a Chaplinesque figure who finds himself on the teetering brink of existence. Pension slashed, behind on his rent, hungry, angry and friendless, our unlikely hero faces the future and finds he hasn’t much. Emotionally charged and exceptionally acted, Umberto D. is a powerful testament on the human condition. With Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari. |
 8 pm
AMARCORD (I REMEMBER)
Directed by Federico Fellini (1974, 125 mins., color)
Considered by many critics as the best of Fellini’s later efforts, the film is a poignant, funny memoir of adolescence and the village of Rimini on the Adriatic coast where he grew up. Structured around the passage of seasons, the bawdy rites of sexual passage, surreal memories, emerging Fascism and an omniscient narrator, Fellini gives us a year in the life of Rimini’s citizens as only he could tell it. The film was an Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Film in 1975. With Pupella Maggio, Magali Noel, Bruno Zanin. |
17th Annual James River Film Festival
This year's festival runs Friday, March 19 through Thursday, March 25, 2010.
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