Claudia Cardinale Once Upon a Time
Claudia Cardinale Once Upon a Time
June 9–July 22, 2023
Coproduced by Cinecittà, Rome, and featuring new restorations, Claudia Cardinale Once Upon a Time focuses on her great performances from the late 1950s through the 1960s in films imbued with an intelligence and depth that surpass the confines of the scripted characters.
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8 1/2
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The Leopard
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Once Upon a Time in the West
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Films - Past
Films - Past
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Past Films
Bebo’s Girl
Luigi Comencini
Italy, 1963Friday, June 9 7 PMPrerecorded Introduction by Claudia SquitieriView DetailsIn the ruins of postwar Italy, two young lovers find their union halted by the political hatred that still divides their country. Starring Claudia Cardinale, who earned her first major acting award for her performance, and George Chakiris (West Side Story).
The Leopard
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1963Sunday, June 11 7 PMView DetailsA compelling Claudia Cardinale anchors Luchino Visconti’s effortless integration of family history into a panoramic account of the Risorgimento. “Perhaps no film captures the Proustian aesthetic more firmly” (Warren Sonbert).
The Facts of Murder
Pietro Germi
Italy, 1959Thursday, June 15 7 PMView DetailsA police detective encounters a cross section of Italian society as he investigates two crimes in the same Rome apartment building in Pietro Germi’s combination of neorealism, film noir, and even comedy.
Rocco and His Brothers
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1960Saturday, June 17 7 PMView DetailsA southern Italian family seeking a better life in Milan mirrors the transformation of postwar Italian society in Luchino Visconti’s masterwork starring Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale in an early role. “The emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a nineteenth-century novel” (New York Times).
Senilità
Mauro Bolognini
Italy, 1962Thursday, June 22 7 PMView DetailsA melancholy, well-off clerk (Antony Franciosa) hopes to finally find love in the arms of a sensuous, high-spirited flapper (Claudia Cardinale), with predictably doomed results, in Mauro Bolognini’s fog-drenched adaptation of a novel by James Joyce favorite Italo Svevo.
La viaccia
Mauro Bolognini
Italy, 1961Sunday, June 25 7 PMView DetailsA headstrong peasant (Jean-Paul Belmondo) abandons the politics and doom of his family farm for the arms of a beautiful prostitute (Claudia Cardinale) in a rain-soaked nineteenth-century Florence. Directed by Mauro Bolognini, one of Cardinale’s favorite collaborators.
Girl with a Suitcase
Valerio Zurlini
Italy, 1961Sunday, July 2 4:30 PMView DetailsAbandoned by a playboy aristocrat, a showgirl (Claudia Cardinale) makes do with his teenage brother in this moving study of adolescence and class filmed in Parma and Rimini.
The Magnificent Cuckold
Antonio Pietrangeli
Italy/France, 1964Saturday, July 8 4:30 PMView DetailsClaudia Cardinale lends a becalmed radiance in this giddy tale of a middle-aged businessman (Ugo Tognazzi) who’ll stop at nothing to prove his young wife is cheating on him, even though he’s the one who’s been unfaithful.
8 1/2
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1963Thursday, July 13 7 PMView DetailsA traffic jam nightmare, a literal flight of fancy, nuns and whores and more: 8 1/2 follows the dreams and visions of a jaded director (Marcello Mastroianni) as he bemusedly attempts his next great film, which may or may not take precedence over his own sexual desires. Followed by Un Cardinale Donna.
Sandra
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1965Saturday, July 15 7 PMView DetailsLuchino Visconti’s somber mood piece is an Elektra story of madness and incestuous passions in a family haunted by secrets and the shadow of the Holocaust. Claudia Cardinale stars with Jean Sorel and Marie Bell.
Once Upon a Time in the West
Sergio Leone
Italy, United States, 1968Saturday, July 22 3:30 PMView DetailsSergio Leone goes to the heartland of the Western—Monument Valley—for this monumental revision of American myth, starring Henry Fonda as a ruthless killer up against Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and Claudia Cardinale.