David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia as part of the MAGNIFICHE VISIONI (MAGNIFICENT VISIONS) Permanent Festival of Restored Film. Introduced by Wu Ming 4

The National Museum of Cinema presents the restored edition of David Lean's film Lawrence of Arabia as part of the MAGNIFICHE VISIONI (MAGNIFICENT VISIONS) permanent festival of restored film on Wednesday, the 26th of May 2010 at 8.30 p.m. at Cinema Massimo’s Screen 3. This is the festival's ninth evening.

This copy of the film, restored by the David Lean Foundation and distributed by Park Circus, will be presented to the public by the writer Wu Ming 4, author of the novel Stella del Mattino (Star of the Morning), published by Einaudi Stile Libero, 2008, whose main character is Thomas Edward Lawrence, the strong-willed and controversial hero better known as Lawrence of Arabia.

Wu Ming, or more formally known as the Wu Ming Foundation, is the nom de plume of the famous writers' collective created in the Bologna wing of the Luther Blisset Project, which became famous following the novel Q. This collective, which has been active and present on the international cultural scene since 2000, has written many novels which have been translated and published in many countries, considered to be part of the body of work known as the New Italian Epic.