Gianni Agnelli was Italy’s most important industrialist. A well-known figure abroad, he was the head of one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurial dynasties. He was also the much-envied and unreachable model of a certain type of Italian, a minority nowadays; he was elegant, an important publisher, a major art collector and art lover, an avid sportsman. As a soldier, he saw combat in Africa and in Russia and he fought alongside the American troops for Italy’s Liberation. A true protagonist of the “brief century” in which he lived, he was confronted with every type of situation: capitalism and Communism, real war and the Cold War, Fascism and a regime under the Christian Democrats, terrorism, globalization and major economic crises. An extraordinary life, which these images recall and endeavor to reconstruct.
From 15/01/2008 to 10/02/2008
Werner Herzog and cinema
On the occasion of the Turin Tribute, Werner Herzog will be the leading figure of a two-day workshop on cinema and writing, exclusively for 15 candidates chosen from a nationwide competition and the Master students at the Holden school. During the Workshop, key themes from his cinema will be explored, such as the relation between man and nature (from Fitzcarraldo to Grizzly Man), the journey and visionary ecstasy (from Fata Morgana to the White Diamondl), writing as an instrument for cinema, but also narration (from Vom Gehen im Eis, Guanda 1980 to Eroberung des Nutzlosen, Mondadori 2007).
From 15/11/2007 to 03/02/2008
CAROLE BELLAÏCHE - Photographer for the Cahiers du cinéma
Some of the most important directors, actors and actresses in contemporary cinema, photographed by Carole Bellaïche for the Cahiers du cinéma. Art portraits, evocative and personal, for the first time in the exhibit The Collector. Carole Bellaïche, Photografa FOR THE Cahiers du Cinéma, edited by Alberto Barbera, presented from 15 November 2007 to 13 January 2008 at the Museo Nazionale del Cinema and on the gate surrounding the Mole Antonelliana, home of the Museo.
From 07/06/2007 to 08/06/2007
LA FERRARI E IL CINEMA
LA FERRARI E IL CINEMA
From 08/03/2007 to 19/04/2007
THE PAPER SCREEN
Photo-strip stories were an extraordinarily successful trend in the 1950s, a completely Italian speciality, a piece of history in popular publishing, forgotten for decades, a crossbreed between cinema and popular literature.
From 06/12/2006 to 18/03/2007
Isabelle Huppert, La Donna di Ritratti
« Isabelle Huppert, La Donna di Ritratti » is a series of variations on a single theme, the image of the French actress Isabelle Huppert. Huppert has starred in over 80 international films by directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Michael Haneke and Benoît Jacquot. Equally prolific as a photographic subject, Huppert has sat for many of the world’s greatest photographers, appearing in such diverse contexts as photojournalism, fashion photography, cinema and theatre photography, and video.
From 05/10/2006 to 03/12/2006
The art of Luchino Visconti
The Museo Nazionale del Cinema will dedicate a wide-ranging tribute to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Luchino Visconti (November 2, 1906), who is unanimously considered one of the most important directors in the
From 14/06/2006 to 24/09/2006
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Cinema in poetry form
The action and set stills that are on exhibit along the outside rail
fence and inside the Mole Antonelliana are a tribute to the cinema of
Pier Paolo Pasolini and to the set photographers whose snapshots
were able to capture the poetry of his films. The dramatic physicality
of Pasolini’s film images, the “sacred” corporality of the derelicts
and outcasts portrayed, the “barbaric” strength of his style, the
poetic and expressive “diversity” of his cinema all come forth
strongly in the reproductions that document his evolution as a
director.
From 11 April to 11 June the Museo Nazionale del Cinema is hosting an exhibit in the Temple Hall of 65 original sketches drawn by the Oscar award winner Dante Ferretti during his carrier. The show is a European “premiere” of the great monograph dedicated to him by the Academy in Los Angeles in 2005
From 08/02/2006 to 26/03/2006
PICTURES OF SILENCE
This photography exhibit pays homage to the great season of Turin’s silent cinema, its directors, actors and crews that contributed their talent to establishing Turin as the capital of Italian cinema in that era. The exhibit is divided into two parts, which document the extent of the period’s productions, and, at the same time, the wealth of the photographic collection conserved at The National Museum Cinema of Cinema. On the Mole Antonelliana’s outside gate a first group of pictures documents the activities on the sets, offering valuable information on the work behind the scenes of silent films and their mise-en-scène. In addition to the cast, the camera photographs the area of the sets, for the most part inside studios, revealing architectural components, painted backdrops, equipment and the crew. Other snapshots depict directs, actors and the crew taken during a coffee break or in more formal poses, in front of the film studios.
From 24/05/2005 to 27/11/2005
THINGS FROM ANOTHER WORLD
THINGS FROM ANOTHER WORLD. JOURNEY INTO SCIENCE-FICTION CINEMA is a large exhibition designed and produced by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema. The exhibition, which presents for the first time a vast collection of unique and very rare specimens, has been inaugurated at the Mole Antonelliana on 24 May 2005 and continued until 27 November 2005.
The exhibition, organized by Nicoletta Pacini, displays 300 posters and inserts from the Museo's collections A chronological itinerary which goes from the early 1900s up to the present, highlights the main trends of a genre unique in charm and suggestion. The itinerary begins with Voyage autour d'une étoile (1906), a film born in the wake of the phantasmagorical productions by Georges Méliès, the father of science-fiction cinema. It then looks at the great "classics" like King Kong, Frankenstein, The War of the Worlds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Blob, and continues with 2001 A Space Odyssey, E.T., Robocop, to conclude with recent hits such as Independence Day, Matrix and The Day After Tomorrow.
Fratelli Alinari - Foundation for the History of Photography and the National Museum of Cinema – M.A. Prolo Foundation has presented the world premiere of the exhibition “Marilyn and friends”. The exhibition has consisted of a selection of 155 pictures, most of which have never before been published, of the famous star, a myth and icon of the 20th century, and of her contemporary friends and actors. The exhibition was housed in the National Museum of Cinema, recreating the charm and recollections that only the magic of cinema can give. Thanks to its unique installation, the “friends” did accompanied us on an itinerary of discovery, as we draw nearer to Marilyn, who holds the place of honor, in the heart of the Museum, the immense Aula del Tempio.
From 16/12/2003 to 15/02/2004
Oggi si vola! A century of technology, dreams and mass culture
Powered flight will celebrate its hundredth anniversary on 17 December 2003. By shrinking times and distances, flight has contaminated cultures, modified lifestyles and made the world smaller.
The exhibition "Oggi si vola!", organized by Alenia Aereonautica, in collaboration with The National Museum of Cinema, has opened from December 16, 2003 to February 15, 2004.
From 17/10/2003 to 31/01/2004
Shivers at the Mole. Monsters in the cinema.
From 17 October to 31 January The National Museum of Cinema has proposed an exposition dedicated to the horror and fantastic cinema. The exposition is inspired by the Andrea Ferrari’s book, a journalist and cinema reviewer who presents, for the first time, in Europe his extraordinary collection of objects, pictures and movie posters referred to the Monster’s world.
From 18/09/2003 to 12/10/2003
ON THE ROADS OF KIAROSTAMI Cinema / photography / video / poetry
Kiarostami is not just yet another new author who has changed our way of seeing cinema and the world. As a Renaissance artist, he is a "total" author, able to express himself through diverse languages and means, and each time he remains true to himself and his favourite themes. The Torino tribute - organized by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema together with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and the Scuola Holden- Tecniche della narrazione and with the support of the City of Torino, the Province of Torino and the Piedmont Region - has presented a collection and documentation of the complete works of Kiarostami, which covers the various fields of his artistic creativity, based on a project by Elisa Resegotti and Alberto Barbera.
For further details on the event click on the press release.
From 24/06/2003 to 30/09/2003
La Dolce vita - An exhibit of pictures dedicated to Federico Fellini
The 24th of June the National Cinema Museum has opened the new Welcome Floor of the Mole Antonelliana which includes a coffee bar, a bookshop, a new ticket office and a temporary exhibition hall: a free admittance big area which will represent a meeting point, a place for entertainment and culture.
In the exhibition area, until 30 September,has taken place an exhibit of pictures dedicated to “La dolce vita”, characterized from shooting images from the famous movie.
The National Cinema Museum, in collaboration with the Luce Institute and the National School of Cinema, as homage to Federico Fellini’s art,ten years after his death.
From 08/03/2003 to 29/05/2003
Italian Cinema Divas.Great Italian actresses in photos and posters from the Prolo Foundation
On the 8th of March the exhibition Italian Cinema Divas has opened at the Mole Antonelliana: 35 giant photos and 37 posters dedicated to some of the most important Italian actresses. Through their faces, visitors can follow a suggestive and involving path, a real album, where it is possible to remind those extraordinary faces who marked the history of the cinema.
From 07/01/2003 to 20/01/2003
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We have had a great succes in the Christmas period the Museum will exhibit for some days more, up to January 20th, the scripts and the film posters "Grease" and " Forrest Gump" organised in collaboration with Paramount Pictures.
From 24/12/2002 to 06/01/2003
CHRISTMAS AT THE MUSEUM WITH PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Reduced ticket, a new exhibition a free DVD! These were the gifts the Museum has offered to its visitors on Christmas Eve.
Anybody who will go the ticket desk with a child will pay a reduced ticket for 4.20 €. The scripts “Grease” signed by John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Frankie Avalon and the film Forrest Gump", signed by Tom Hanks, Sally Field, and Gary Sinise. These scripts, next to the ticket desk, has been exhibited together with the original posters form the two films.
29/11/2002
CARLO LEVI AND THE CINEMA
The National Museum of Cinema gave homage to Carlo Levi, one of the more important Italian writers of the '900, in occasion of the centenarian of his birth. A day of screenings and meetings at the Cinema Massimo in order to discover his life and to tell the cinematographic adventure of its novel "Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli", written for the screen by Francesco Rosi. The President of the Regione Piemonte Enzo Ghigo gave an acknowledgment to Francesco Rosi for the faithful cinematographic transposition of the work of Carlo Levi. The initiative is realized in collaboration with the Regione Piemonte, the Regione Basilicata - Centennial Committee Celebrations Carlo Levi, the Parco Letterario Carlo Levi – Comune di Aliano and the Federazione Circoli e Associazioni Lucani in Piemonte.
19/11/2002
DIGITAL CINEMA
Tuesday, novembre 19th, at 11 a.m., in the Cinema Massimo, Hall 2, the National Museum of Cinema and Euphon Group proposed an open test: “ Digital Cinema: looking for a possible standard”. The public had been invited to give an opinion on the images quality of a new satellite system showing.
18/11/2002
MultiMuseo and Wireless Museum
Two years after his opening, The National Museum of Cinema has presented his official website MultiMuseo and the experiment Wireless Museum (www.museonazionaledelcinema.it): two communication projects focused on widening the Museum experience through technologies and innovative services for its audiences. The event was organized with the collaboration of the partners CSP, Tilab, Hp, Netbrain and the technical support of Euphon.
23/10/2002
CUBAN CINEMATOGRAPHY AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CINEMA
On October 23, 2002, the Museum officially presented at the Mole Antonelliana its collaboration with the ICAIC (Cuban Institute of the Arts and Cinematographic Industry) and with the Cuban Embassy in Italy.
From 14/06/2002 to 15/09/2002
LE DRAGON ET L’ALOUETTE. The passion of cinema
Inauguration of the exhibition dedicated to Maria Adriana Prolo and to Henri Langlois. A record of the relations between the founder of the Museum and the founder of the Cinémathèque Française: the merging of the professional and the private lives of two different characters united by the same love for cinema. The exhibit was designed by François Confino.
From 22/04/2002 to 31/12/2002
FRANCE AND ITALY THROUGH THE PATHÉ POSTERS
The exhibit was inaugurated on April 22. The spiral stairway has hosted 37 among posters and original pictures of the famous French movie theatre company, recording its collaboration with Italy from the days of silent cinema to the Sixties’ blockbusters.
01/04/2002
Distinguished visits at the National Museum of Cinema
Last April, the National Museum of Cinema had the honor of welcoming the Oscar awarded Mr. Carlo Rambaldi.
23/03/2002
VISCONTI SOIRÉE AT THE MAIRIE, CANNES
On March 23, The National Museum of Cinema, together with the Cannes Mairie, organized a soirée for director Luchino Visconti at the Miramar Hall. The actor Massimo Girotti was present at the screening of Senso.
16/03/2002
DISNEY FANTASY AT THE MOLE
The National Museum of Cinema has taken part to the new Disney theme park in Paris with original costumes form Cabiria and Lawrence of Arabia. To celebrate the inauguration of the park, the Museum organized a Walt Disney day: visitors were entertained by performers dressed in costume, while the Cinema Massimo programmed free screenings of several Disney features. The event was very successful: during the weekend, the museum registered more than 4,000 visitors while the Massimo Theatre 3 was complete at all screenings.
From 01/03/2002 to 30/06/2002
ITALIAN CINEMA DIVAS
The National Museum of Cinema, in collaboration with Cinecittà, arranged the exhibition of 35 photographic portraits of famous Italian actresses, from silent cinema to the present. Italian Cinema Divas was exhibited at the Directors Guild of America, for the 2002 Oscar night. The Italian Institute in Los Angeles hosted the exhibit from March to June.
21/11/2001
Distinguished visits at the National Museum of Cinema
In Autumn of 2002 the National Museum of Cinema had the honor of welcoming a number of illustrious visitors: Mr. Vittorio Sgarbi, ex-undersecretary to Cultural assets and activities, Mrs. Viviane Reding, European Commissioner and the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
23/07/2001
INAUGURATION OF THE NEW MOVIE POSTER SECTION
The first year of the National Museum of Cinema at the Mole was celebrated with the inauguration of a new exhibition area entirely dedicated to movie posters. The event was also the occasion for introducing to the public the poster exhibition on the spiral stairway, realized in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Française, and the preview of the Maria Adriana Prolo and Henri Langlois exhibit. Guest of honor was Rutger Hauer.
From 12/06/2001 to 14/06/2001
TRESORS DU CINEMA RESTAURÉS
In the presence of General director Mr. Koichiro Matsuura, Mr. Mario Ricciardi,
introduced the National Museum of Cinema to UNESCO in Paris. On such occasion the following films were screened: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Chung Kuo - China, Luchino Visconti’s Ossessione, Segundo de Chòmon’s La Guerra e il sogno di Momi and Giovanni Pastrone’s Il fuoco. Patroness of the inauguration was Laura Morante.
