Rome Cinema Film Festival 2009

From October 15 to 23 Rome will host the International Film Festival 2009: nine days of cinema, and international stars, exhibitions, events, music, retrospectives, and many other meetings at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome and elsewhere in Capital.
The event begins with a preview of “Triad”, directed by Danis Tanovic (Oscar winner), with Christopher Lee and Paz Vega and a great Party to the French Academy at Villa Medici.

The fourth edition of the Rome Film Festival will be dedicated to women, with Margherita Buy, the career award to Meryl Streep, and the first works as a director of actresses like Helen Mirren and Stefania Sandrelli.
There will be famous Hollywood male stars like George Clooney, Richard Gere, Terry Gilliam and the protagonists of the new phenomenon Twilight: Jamie Campbell Bower and Cameron Bright.
The contest is about 137 films, including 14 in competition in the official section and 8 out of competition with 8 special events.

Over the weekend presentation of "Up in the Air" by Jason Reitman with the couple George Clooney - Elisabetta Canalis in the following week and other arthouse films like The Last Station by Michael Hoffman and Vision by Margarethe Von Trotta.

Equally important films out of competition: The Coen Brothers present "A Serious Men" their new comedy, while Nora Ephron film shows us the fun-culinary "Julie & Julia" with Meryl Streep, and "The City of Your Final Destination” by James Ivory with Anthony Hopkins and Laura Linney.
The section “the other cinema” was created to make meetings with the major entertainment. This year will be Meryl Streep, Richard Gere, Paulo Coelho, Asia Argento and a the director’s duo Tornatore - Muccino.

Among the special events, a tribute to the late Heath Ledger with a screening of his novel as a director and the presentation of his latest film as protagonist "The Immaginarium of Doctor Parnassus", and the marathon "Red Riding Trilogy" a British TV thriller.

Also this year the historic tribute to the great masters of cinema will be dedicated to Sergio Leone, Luciano Emmer, Luciano Salce and Tullio Kezich.

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