Cinema Universale

Via Pisana, 43,
Florence 50142

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Gerald A. DeLuca
Gerald A. DeLuca on July 22, 2019 at 6:53 am

There is a feature-length documentary on the history of this cinema, so very important to Florentine film buffs. The film is called “Cinema Universale d'Essai” and was made by Federico Micali in 2015. It can be seen in its entirety on YouTube. It helps to know Italian. It was based in part on the book “Breve Storia del Cinema Universale,” by Matteo Poggi.

Gerald A. DeLuca
Gerald A. DeLuca on July 22, 2019 at 6:47 am

I remember going to a film in this cinema once only. It was on August 19, 1969. The film was Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Oedipus Rex” (Edipo re), made in 1967. I had already seen a few of Pasolini’s films but not this one, because it had not been shown in the US and wouldn’t be for another fifteen years when it finally made its way to the Public Theatre in New York. So I was very grateful to catch it out of sheer good luck.