Smog

Franco Rossi
United States, 1962

Digital Restoration

May HaDuong and Luca Celada will give a twenty-five-minute lecture prior to the film.

Lecture

  • May HaDuong

    May HaDuong is the Director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

  • Luca Celada

    Italian journalist Luca Celada is currently the Los Angeles correspondent for Il manifesto, an Italian-language daily newspaper published in Rome.

featuring

Enrico Maria Salerno, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, Max Showalter,

In the postwar era, as American movie producers flocked to Europe for its cheaper costs and dramatic locales, Italian director Franco Rossi took his crew to Los Angeles. In Smog an Italian attorney (Enrico Maria Salerno) has time to kill on a layover in LA and happens upon a community of expatriate Italians who provide him with an impromptu tour of the city. To capture mid-century LA, Rossi shot at eighty different locations, filming in and around some of the city’s most iconic architectural landmarks. Though it never received a US theatrical release, Smog has achieved cult status over the decades. 

Paul Malcolm, UCLA Film & Television Archive
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Franco Rossi
  • Pasquale Festa Campanile
  • Massimo Franciosa
  • Ugo Guerra
Cinematographer
  • Franco Rossi
  • Ted D. McCord
Language
  • Italian
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 100 mins
Source
  • Warner Bros.
Additional Info
  • Restoration funded by the Golden Globe Foundation. Restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and the UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., from the 35mm original picture negative, a 35mm composite fine grain master positive, and a 35mm optical track negative. Laboratory services by L’Immagine Ritrovata Group and Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services—Picture. Special thanks to Daphne Dentz, George Feltenstein, and Craig Johnson.

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