For the end of the PHANTOMS OF FORGOTTEN MEN. The Great Depression in Hollywood genres showcase, an evening rendez-vous titled The Great Depression. Fears, hopes and dignity on Thursday 30 May 2013 at 8.30 p.m. in the events room at the Library/Mediatheque. To follow, film screening of Meet John Doe (1941), by Frank Capra.

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Within the LESSONS ON CINEMA. Four films by Ozu Yasujiro showcase, the National Cinema Museum presents the film screening of Ukikusa (Floating weeds), Wednesday 29 May 2013 at 6.00 p.m. on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo. Admission 4 euro (3 euro for university students).

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The National Cinema Museum presents the restored version of Diaries by Ed Pincus, introduced by Gianmarco Torri, on Wednesday 29 May 2013 at 8.30 p.m. on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo, for the first time in Italy.

Restored at last and screened last year at the Harvard Film Archive and at the Lincoln Center of New York, this masterpiece by American filmmaker Ed Pincus, who recorded moments of his family life combining the extremisation of his desire for portability and the lightness of cinema, and directed it between 1971 and 1976 with the anxiety of creating a unique existential experiment in its kind, is now arriving at the Cinema Massimo. Admission: 6.00/4.00/3.00 euro.

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For MAGNIFICENT VISIONS: The Permanent Festival of Restored Film, the National Cinema Museum presents the film La poison by Sacha Guitry, Tuesday 28 May 2013, at 8.30 and 10.30 p.m., on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo. Repeat screening Wednesday 29 May at 4 p.m. Admission: 6.00/4.00/3.00 euro.

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For the PHANTOMS OF FORGOTTEN MEN. The Great Depression in Hollywood genres showcase, film screening of My man Godfrey by Gregory La Cava, on Monday 27 May 2013 at 3.30 p.m. in the events room at the Library/Mediatheque. Introduced by Hamilton Santià.

PHANTOMS OF FORGOTTEN MEN offers a selection of films – programmed at the Mario Gromo Library/Mediatheque in the month of May – which were produced in Hollywood during the years of the Great Depression and which work as an ideal mirror for understanding that type of economic crisis and the ensuing anxieties, disappointments and hopes. In this sense, cinema is offered as a valuable testimonial tool, which may be examined not only by cinema historians but also by those involved in economic and social disciplines.

The showcase is organised in collaboration with the Luigi Einaudi Foundation, DAMS – Turin University and curators Gruppo cinematografico universitario Ultracorpi.

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