Featured Works:

Tempo massimo (Mario Mattoli, 1934); Allegri masnadieri (Marco Elter, 1937); Imputato alzatevi! (Mario Mattoli, 1939); Non ti pago! (Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 1942); Tutta la città canta (Riccardo Freda, 1943-1945); Botta e risposta (Mario Soldati, 1950); È arrivato il cavaliere! (Mario Monicelli and Steno, 1950); Guardie e ladri(Mario Monicelli and Steno, 1951); L'eroe sono io! (Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 1952); Un giorno in pretura (Steno, 1954); Lo scapolo (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1955); Cinque ore in contanti (Mario Zampi, 1961); Il mantenuto (Ugo Tognazzi, 1961); L'onorata società (Riccardo Pazzaglia, 1961); Le pillole di Ercole (Luciano Salce, 1962); Le quattro verità ("La lepre e la tartaruga", Alessandro Blasetti, 1962); I cuori infranti ("La manina di Fatma", Vittorio Caprioli, 1963); Il giovedi (Dino Risi, 1963); I crudeli (Sergio Corbucci, 1967); Lo scatenato (Franco Indovina, 1967); Io non spezzo... rompo (Bruno Corbucci, 1971); Il domestico (Luigi Filippo D'Amico, 1974); Profumo di donna (Dino Risi, 1974); Febbre da cavallo (Steno, 1976); Casotto (Sergio Citti, 1977); Fracchia la belva umana (Neri Parenti, 1981); Eccezzziunale... veramente (Carlo Vanzina, 1982); Vacanze di Natale (Carlo Vanzina, 1983); Il ragazzo di campagna (Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia, 1984, pictured); Il commissario Lo Gatto (Dino Risi, 1987); Compagni di scuola (Carlo Verdone, 1988)

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Italian Comedy-The State of Things

In search of ways out of this mess we've gotten into, the 2010 Festival for Art, Technology and Society turns to the pioneers of our age. Not the adventurers who've sailed forth because they wanted to find out what awaits them on the other side, but rather the visionaries who are bringing expertise as well as a great deal of creativity and idealism to bear in their work on an alternative future. Repair is the title of a festival designed to pursue the paths opened up by these trailblazers and to show why it's imperative for us to follow their lead.

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Ars Electronica Festival 2010: Repair

This is an exploration of the urban experience through film. Each year at the Toronto International Film Festival a different city is featured.

Featured Works:

Block-C (Zeki Demirkubuz, 1994); Somersault in a Coffin (Dervis Zaim, 1997); Waves (Belmin Söylemez, 2001); Distant (Nuri Blige Ceylan, 2002, pictured); My Only Sunshine (Reha Erdem, 2008); Science Lab (Eytan Ipeker, 2008); 10 to 11 (Pelin Esmer, 2009); Dark Cloud (Theron Patterson, 2009); 40 (Emre Sahin, 2010); Ascents in February (Yoel Meranda, 2010); Hair (Tayfun Pirselimoglu, 2010); Not Be Or... (Yoel Meranda, 2010); On Thin Ice (Burçak Kaygun, 2010); Rauscht (Yoel Meranda, 2010); September 12 (Özlem Sulak, 2010); Straitscaping (Yoel Meranda, 2010); The Majority (Seren Yüce, 2010)

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TIFF City to City: Istanbul

A wide-reaching retrospective devoted to contemporary non-fiction cinema. Contemporary documentary cinema is so incredibly varied and versatile that even the classic notion of the term has to be questioned. Requirements traditionally associated with the documentary (like objectivity, a serious tone, and lack of expressiveness) are no longer considered essential and can even be deliberately avoided. Rather than documentaries, it seems more fitting to talk of non-fiction cinema, a term with the virtue of encompassing this new heterodoxy of the genre, rich in multifarious expressions, alternative paths, and unexpected solutions. The new cinema based on real materials shuns the reporting format and seeks other forms of recording the world around us and our relationship with it. The .doc - New paths of non-fiction cycle aims to show some of the most suggestive proposals to have appeared the world over in the last decade.

Featured Works:

Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2000); The Filth and the Fury (Julien Temple, 2000); En construcción (José Luis Guerin, 2001); Le souvenir d'un avenir (Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon, 2001); Auge/Maschine- Parts 1, 2, 3 (Harun Farocki, 2002-2003); Los rubios (Albertina Carri, 2003); S-21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge (Rithy Panh, 2003); The Five Obstructions (Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth, 2003); Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Parts 1,2,3 (Bing Wang, 2003); The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005, pictured); The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog, 2005); Más allá del espejo (Joaquim Jordá, 2006); Lucio (José María Goenaga and Aitor Arregi, 2007); My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007); Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (John Gianvito, 2007)

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.doc - New paths of non-fiction

Other retrospectives at the Festival include:
Don Siegel

Gamblers betting it all in games they can't win, samurais heading into their final battles, lovers realizing their bonds are no match for an uncaring destiny: Welcome to the remarkable universe of Masahiro Shinoda. A spectacular filmmaker key to the Japanese New Wave, Shinoda was fascinated by both traditional Japanese aesthetics and the modernity of cinema.

Featured Works:

Mr. Shinoda will be in attendance for the tribute presented as part of the 150th Anniversary Celebration of Japan-NYC Friendship.

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Elegant Elegies: The Films of Masahiro Shinoda