Cinema and History form a multifaceted pairing. The project "Philosophy and cinema" aims to highlight in its seventh edition, through the seminar “The cinema (and) it's History" and the screenings of La Filmoteca, their complex relationships. An intense Shakespearean drama about absolute power (Julius Caesar); a neorealist epiphany about freedom and resistance (Roma, open city); a testament to the twilight western fordià, which is nothing more than a lucid reflection on Myth and History (The man who killed Liberty Valance); a symbolic existential story with the Middle Ages as a scenic background (The seventh seal); an avant-garde emblem of the triumphant Revolution (Battleship Potemkin)… The canonical and historically relevant films of the cycle, although very different from each other, they all tell us about and from History. Project a look at the passat, but also about his own present, and the imprint of his footprints becomes more visible over time. The words of the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska can be inscribed in his images: "When I finish pronouncing "future" the first syllable is in the past".
07.04.26 TUESDAY / 20.00 h
10.04.26 FRIDAY / 18.00 h
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ. USA. 1953. VOS SPANISH. B/N. 120′. 35 mm.
Int. Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Louis Calhern, Edmond O'Brien, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr.
Fearing that his ambition would lead Rome to tyranny, a group of conspirators assassinates Caesar. The people are calling for Marc Antoni to be their successor, but the conspirators confront him to obtain power.
