26/04/2021 - Cinemas in Italy are open from today, but with which films remains uncertain. Many European countries are still in doubt, while France and the UK are looking at 17 May for reopening
Nomadland by Chloé Zhao
Cinemas have the option of reopening from today in Italy, in the regions in the “yellow zone” (with a low rate of COVID-19 contagion), but there’s no certainty about how many theatres will return and with which films. In recent days, some distributors announced the first titles, starting with
Nomadland, the film directed by
Chloé Zhao which just won three Academy Awards with Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress (
Frances McDormand) (read the news), which lands in cinemas on 29 April. There will be a “constant and gradual rise of screens that will resume activity, not a mass reopening. There are structures, such as the larger, peripheral ones, whose audience is mostly young, which cannot think of reopening with the possibility of doing the last showing at 7:30pm at the latest,” explained
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Italy Abolishes Film Censorship, Ending Government Power to Ban Movies
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Italy has officially abolished film censorship by scrapping legislation that since 1913 has allowed the government to censor scenes and ban movies such as, most famously, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom” and Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris.”
The move which is symbolically important, though censorship is de-facto no longer practiced definitively does away with “the system of controls and interventions that still allowed the Italian state to intervene on the freedom of artists,” said Culture Minister Dario Franceschini who late Monday announced a new decree ending the government’s powers to censor cinema.
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