You can find daily movie listings in the local pages of:
La Repubblica
http://www.bologna.repubblica.it
Il Resto del Carlino
http://ilrestodelcarlino.quotidiano.net/citta/bologna
Il domani di Bologna
www.bologna.ildomani.it (Italian version)
Otherwise, you can join this site, looking for the city of bologna to find daily movie listing:
http://www.35mm.it/alcinema
You will also see large posters in many bars and restaurants which list films, theaters, and current showtimes.
:: THE BOLOGNA FILM COMMISSION
An office that offers a first contact for directors, producers and art-directors who whish to exploit Bologna's extraordinary potential as a set for TV and motion-picture shootings. The film commission of the City of Bologna is an initiative within the activities for the promotion of the area, aiming at fostering the city 's heritage through a professional and efficient assistance to productions.
Phone : +39 051/204771-724
Fax : +39 051/204719
Municipality of Bologna
Youth Policy Bureau
http:www.filmcommission.bologna.it
Let's go to see Flash Giovani Italian Version, in the section Cinema, looking for the news about "Film in Lingua" (Film in original language):
http://www.flashgiovani.it/cinema/cinema.htm
* Film in French:
Info: Multisala Nosadella, via Nosadella, 21 - Bologna.
Tel. 051 331506 / www.nosadella.it
http://www.flashgiovani.it/cinema/k_nosadella_fr.htm
:: FILM BUFF SPECIAL
Cineteca, Bologna's internationally respected film archive, operates the city's art house cinema, Cinema Lumière. Here you can see a vast selection of films from the world over. Cinema Lumière organizes retrospectives dedicated to specific directors and genres. The inexpensive membership card, necessary for viewing certain films, grants you discounted admission. Contact Lumière or the Cineteca for programs and more information.
Cineteca del Comune di Bologna
Via Riva di Reno, 72
Tel. 051.204820
www.cinetecadibologna.it
The new cinema Lumière
Via Azzo gardino, 65
Auguste Lumière – Sala 1 (174 places)
Louis Lumière – sala 2 (144 places)
Tel. 051 205311
:: MOVIE RENTAL
There are a few places around town where you can rent videos in original language.
Balboni
Via Saragozza, 233
tel. 051.6141416
videos in Spanish, German, and French (as well as in English)
Blockbuster
Via Irnerio, 12/5
tel. 051.247196
Blockbuster
Via Montefiorino 6
Tel. 051.6142 211
L'Occhio Privato
Via Parigi, 11/B
Tel. 051.224700
For other VIDEO rental shops, check the yellow pages under the listing VIDEOCASSETTE: VENDITA E NOLEGGIO.
http://paginegialle.virgilio.it/pg/cgi/pgsearch.cgi?ts=1&l=2
FILM REVIEWS:
KILL BILL VOLUME 2: This time we know her name, Black Mamba alias Beatrix Kiddo's back: she replaced the car and left the Pussy Wagon somewhere, and black and white like Janet Leight in "Psycho", she moves away from Japanese misdeeds to new revenges. But in this second episode, the Bride we all support is destined to an even bigger shower of blows, going through many more misadventures. No more clues about the plot, except for what was declared by Tarantino himself: "I'm sorry, but Bill must really die". No merciful ending as the one in "Pulp Fiction", and it's better this way.
From the apprenticeship in China to what happened before the fatal wedding, from the meetings-fights with Budd and Elle Driver to the finding of the daughter in the name of whom all this slaughter was committed, the second part of the last season's best film digs into its characters' past, to the detriment of pure splatter; and slightly misses something, not managing to keep the tension as high as we were used. Many witty remarks (the resurrection from the grave or the little girl crying out "Bang bang!"), excellent actors, various credits to cinema and comics, a weird and typically tarantinian theory about Superman (reminding the equally insane speech about "Like a virgin" in "Reservoir dogs"); but also a truly evident intrusion of too many scenes created just to fill two hours, which probably wouldn't have found place in the single-feature director's cut, yearned by the dvd fans. The original structure of the film, easily imaginable as a "peak", with a central climax (the fight against O-Ren Ishii and the Crazy 88) and a final anti-climax (the killing of Bill) is then distorted and confused, denying the first film's audience the same violent-emotive excitement, also because of a reduced usage of the soundtrack, even in comparison with the director's previous works. It is anyway a good film (the reason of all the initial massacre, here revealed, is really brilliantly stupid), a fabulous main character (whose feet are still beloved by fetishist Tarantino) and an ending that leaves the spectator with a true feeling of satisfaction, as if all that exhausting revenge was set up just by himself. Cameo of Samuel L. Jackson’s as the musician who insists to play “Love me tender”.
by Valentina Soluri
The RAI mini-series "La fuga degli innocenti"
Bologna gave hospitality to the set of the film "La fuga degli innocenti" ("The escape of the innocents"), which talks about a group of kids, saved from a concentration camp, who stop in Nonantola on their way to Palestine. They're all orphans, their parents died in the camps and they travel with some educators. During their stay in the town near Modena, though they live in modest conditions they learn the agrarian work, to prepare themselves to the future life in the kibbutz. The city inhabitants will adopt these children, and thanks also to the commitment of a doctor and a priest, will help them to hide and organize their escape to Switzerland in 1943, when German soldiers come to town. The history of the Jewish kids, running away from Bulgaria, stopping in Nonantola for two years and then prosecuting their journey to Israel, wants to talk about the "memory of good", as the director himself explained us; in order not to forget some great solidarity deeds that happened even inside the terrible Nazi tragedy. The film was mostly shot in Bulgaria and Switzerland, in difficult weather conditions, and is finishing the shooting just in Bologna, where the Nonantola square was rebuilt. It was written by Alessandro Sermoneta, Angelo Pasquini, Marco Turco, and it stars, among the others, Max Von Sydow, Andrea Tidona, Jasmine Trinca and Ennio Fantastichini.
Read more on the RAI web-site!
See the backstage on Flashvideo!
