Cinema Azzurro Scipioni
Via degli Scipioni 82,
Rome
00192
Via degli Scipioni 82,
Rome
00192
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CLOSES THE AZURE SCIPIONS Silvano Agosti has announced the closure of the cinema Azzurro Scipioni of Rome. This closes not only a cinema room, but the place of the history of cinema, the only place in Rome where it was possible to see and review the masterpieces of world
Saw Fellini’s Roma here on August 15, 1985. 35mm print.
Yes that’s the film. I used the English translation. Do you know what cinema that was? It was pretty large.
I saw Fellini’s last film “La voce della luna” at the Azzurro Scipioni in December 1990. Fine 35mm print.
vindanpar, I don’t know that. I do remember her as an usher in Pietrangeli’s “Io la conoscevo bene.” Perhaps it was the same place used in that film.
Mr DeLuca do you know which cinema was used when Sandrelli worked as an usher in I knew Her Well?
I saw the wonderful film by Gianni Amelio “I ragazzi di via Panisperna” here in July 1989 in a fine 35mm print.
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One of the films that has been often shown by Silvano Agosti at his theatre is, understandably, his own 1984 D'AMORE SI VIVE (“One Lives by Love”), started as a film series made for television (and running about nine hours) and later edited into a shorter feature length movie. Shot in the city of Parma, the movie examines in slow precise details the workings of love, especially among society’s rejected, physically and mentally challenged, socially excluded and otherwise loveless. It does this with a spirit of affection and not pity.
One has the sense in watching this film that one is peering surreptitiously into the privateness of others, their near-masturbatory ecstasies and very private joys. But instead of shock, the feeling is one of overall tenderness for love in all its varieties. Who does not deserve love? The almost voyeuristic nature of the movie aroused antipathy in some quarters.
It is worth a trip to the Azzurro Scipioni to see this film if it is ever being re-programmed, as it is from time to time. I saw it in a video projection of its shorter feature-length version at this cinema. I do not believe the movie has ever been shown in the United States.