Nonostalgic for the Eighties, run to Ferrara. The festival that is about to open its doors (16 – 23 September40 events, 35 films in competition from 42 countries, 19 previews) will host two important birthdays.
The protagonists of Fandango.
Kevin Reynolds (author, among others of Waterworld, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves And Fandangoall with Kevin Costner), will be in the Emilian city to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the first take of cult film for an entire generation: Fandango4 friends who, with the delivery of their diplomas, also receive the enlistment letter for Vietnam, decide to leave in a Cadillac towards the Mexican border.
There, some time before they had buried a certain “Dom”. The film, which was produced by Steven Spielbergthen came out in 1985 and it was distributed in a few copies and immediately withdrawn from theaters.
Fandangoa cast of “unknowns” destined for success
The cast (in addition to Costner, Judd Nelson which he then did The Breakfast Club And Sam Robards, son of Lauren Bacall and Jason Robards) was “unknown” and people deserted the cinemas. Fandango then became the symbol of a generation of young Americans, who then Quentin Tarantino described it as «one of the best directorial debuts in the history of cinema. I saw Fandango five times in the cinema and it only stayed in theaters for a fucking week.”
Congratulations Scarface
Another anniversary, this time to commemorate its release in the cinema, Scarface Of Brian DePalma. The remake of Howard Hawks’ 1932 film, written by Oliver Stone, it is no longer set in prohibitionist Chicago, but in Miami in the 80s and drug trafficking is the scenario along which they move Tony Montana (Pacino) and Manny Ribera (Steven Bauer), two little Cuban criminals who rapidly rise in the crime hierarchy of the American city.
Steven Bauer and Al Pacino in Scarface.
Bauer, who will be in Ferrarathen in his long and varied career (he was Annie Lennox’s boyfriend in the video Would I Lie to You?) played Don Eladio in the very successful series breaking Bad and in the spin-off Better Call Saul.
Ferrara Film Festival, not to be missed
The Festival opens its doors Sweetwater by Martin Guigui, protagonist Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, the first African American to sign an NBA contract. Among the other proposals of the festival it has its center in Piazza Trento e Triestethe European premiere of Sisters of Ukraine. The documentary directed by Mike Dorsey in competition in the Premiere Docu category, which tells the story of the work of two nuns involved in helping refugees and soldiers’ families escape from the conflict. At the screening, Tuesday 19 September at 7.00 pm at the Teatro Nuovo, the director, the producer and will be present some of the protagonists of the film.
Among the other guests of the festival, the face of many TV series Jeremy Piven (Entourage), Lucrezia Lante della Rovere, Edoardo Leo, Jane Alexander, Stefano Fresi, Marco Leonardi (the actor of New cinema paradise And Like water for chocolate). Golden Dragon for Lifetime Achievement a Giancarlo Giannini.
Info: ferrarafilmfestival.com
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