The Torino Film Festival, under the direction of Steve Della Casa, launched its 40th edition at the sumptuous Teatro Regio not with a film screening, but with an evening devoted to music, reports Variety.To evoke the links between cinema and .
To evoke the links between cinema and music, a talk was organised around the theme of the Beatles versus the Rolling Stones, and the bands love of cinema, which led them to work with Jean-Luc Godard and Martin Scorsese, among others.The
• Two weeks after a New York jury sided with Kevin Spacey in a sexual abuse lawsuit, an Italian film museum announced last week that the actor would receive a lifetime achievement award and teach a master class there. Enzo Ghigo, president of the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, said the class and the award honoring Spacey s contribution to the growth of cinema would take place Jan. 16 and will include a screening of a Spacey film, though he didn t say which one. "We are honored that such a prestigious guest as Kevin Spacey chose Turin and our museum for this long-awaited return to an event with an audience," he said. Spacey filmed his most recent movie, director Franco Nero s "The Man Who Drew God," in Turin. "Now, among all of the cities of the world, he chose Turin for a master class. He couldn t give us a better present than this," said Domenico De Gaetano, director of the museum. On Oct. 21, a federal jury in a New York civil case found that Spac