13/10/2003

One of the most experienced film clubs on the Italian circuit, the Arsenale in Pisa is also taking part in Cinedays 2003. It has been working on the spread of art house films for more than 20 years and for this second edition of Cinedays the Arsenale is putting on four different films a day, which can be seen by buying a single reduced price ticket, showing European classics and recent films, including: The Emperor’s New Clothes by Alan Taylor and Salvatore Giuliano by Francesco Rosi. Other European works include Tandem, a real “accident” on the Italian distribution scene: the film has only been put forward today after the success of The man on the train featuring the couple Leconte-Rochefort, as though it is a new film: "Leconte and Rochefort back together...".

The celebrations continue with two classics from silent cinema, restored by the Bologna Film Archive: from Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher by Jean Epstein, with a young Luis Bunuel as director’s assistant, and Diary of a Lost Girl by Georg Wilhelm Pabst starring a marvellous Louise Brooks. The whole programme is on the Cinedays site.

(Translated from Italian)