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Clooney, Olmi, Crialese, Garrone, Ozpetek: A full line-up for Rai Cinema/01

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A varied selection, dedicated to “arthouse cinema with an appeal to the general public, American blockbusters and films which fulfill our mission to scope talent through first or second films”. That is how Paolo Del Brocco (photo), managing director of Rai Cinema presented next season’s releases forRai Cinema /01 Distribution at the Giornate professionali di Riccione, which concluded its summer edition yesterday.

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We go from George Clooney’s fourth film as a director, The Ides of March, which will open the next Venice Film Festival (see news), to Martin Scorsese’s first 3D film, La straordinaria invenzione di HugoCabret (out on December 16), as well as Drive, by Denmark’s Nicolas Winding Refn (Best Director Award at the latest Cannes Film Festival).

A lot of space is also given to national productions, with the anticipated Bar Sport by Massimo Martelli, a surreal comedy based on the novel by Stefano Benni, with Claudio Bisio, Giuseppe Battiston, Teo Teocoli, Angela Finocchiaro and Lunetta Savino; Il villaggio di cartone by the master Ermanno Olmi, a film about the migratory waves of recent decades and another important film about immigration, Terraferma [+see also:
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by Emanuele Crialese, with Beppe Fiorello and Donatella Finocchiaro.

On October 7 Ex: amici come prima comes out in cinemas, a choral comedy by Carlo Vanzina, with Enrico Brignano, Anna Foglietta, Alessandro Gassman,Teresa Mannino, Ricky Memphis, Gabriella Pession, Paolo Ruffini, Vincenzo Salemme; on October 21 it will be the turn of Cristina Comencini’s new film, Quando la notte, with Claudia Pandolfi and Filippo Timi; November 18 will see the release of Un giorno questo dolore ti sarà utile by Roberto Faenza, a film adaptation of the novel by Peter Cameron while on December 2 it’s time for Il giorno in più by Massimo Venier, with Fabio Volo and Isabella Ragonese.

As for 2012, 01 has in store, among others: Acab by Stefano Sollima, with Pierfrancesco Favino, Filippo Nigro and Marco Giallini (see news); Le premier homme by Gianni Amelio, with Claudia Cardinale; Big House by Matteo Garrone (see news); Magnifica presenza by Ferzan Ozpetek.

And there is no lack of worksin progress: "We are co-producing a film by Marco Tullio Giordana ,Romanzo di una strage, which we will also be distributing," added Del Brocco, "while Scialla will soon be coming out, a directorial debut by Francesco Bruni together with Fabrizio Bentivoglio". In 2010, Rai Cinema/01 films have already sold more than 10 million tickets, and for the first half of 2011 they took 14% of the market in Italy.

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(Translated from Italian)

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