The National Cinema Museum for the Richard Strauss Festival at the Teatro Regio in Turin: "Salomè" by Carmelo Bene, "Wilde Salome" by Al Pacino and "Salome’s Last Dance" by Ken Russell.
Cinema Massimo – 23 February 2018, from 4.00 p.m. – Screen Three
The successful collaboration between the National Cinema Museum and the Teatro Regio in Turin is continuing this year too, within the ambit of the festivals dedicated to great European composers. This year it is the turn of Richard Strauss, who will be remembered from 2 to 25 February with a packed agenda of concerts and collateral events, besides his Salome, still being staged at the Regio, directed by Gianandrea Noseda and under Laurie Feldman’s curatorship.
For this occasion, three greatly differing film versions of Salome will be screened on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo on Friday 23 February, starting from 4.00 p.m.: the 1972 one by Carmelo Bene, Wilde Salome by Al Pacino and Salome’s Last Dance by Ken Russell.
Admission 6.00/4.00 euro.
Carmelo Bene
Salomè
(Italy 1972, 76’, 35mm, col.)
Carmelo Bene’s fourth film, drawn from his theatrical staging of Wilde’s play. Shot at Cinecittà with 150 million lire, for Bene, Salomè is “the impossibility of martyrdom in a current, no longer barbaric, but exclusively stupid world”.
Fri 23, at 4.00 p.m.
Al Pacino
Wilde Salome
(Usa 2011, 88’, DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)
“Wilde Salome is the exploration of a theatrical play, which saw me committed for a long time. I divested the play of all its complex costumes and stage-sets, presenting it and analysing it in its essence. Jessica Chastain is sensational in the role of Salome and she helped me a lot in my personal discovery of Oscar Wilde’s world. Wilde Salome is not a traditional narrative film, nor a documentary. It’s experimental, it’s the emancipation of a play that keeps on living” (Al Pacino).
Fri 23, at 6.00 p.m.
Ken Russell
Salome’s Last Dance
(GB 1988, 87’, video, col., o.v. it. s/t)
This film is the biography of Oscar Wilde and is drawn from an impromptu staging of his play Salome. The play was forbidden in 1892 in Victorian London, but a friend of Wilde’s, the owner of a luxurious bordello, organised a ‘premiere’ on his premises with the author attending, together with the famous actress Lady Alice and other improvised actors.
Fri 23, at 8.30 p.m.