Sophia Loren: La Signora di Napoli
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Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà announce “Sophia Loren: La Signora di Napoli,” a 13-film retrospective celebrating the beloved Italian star’s essential body of work, to be presented at FLC from June 7 through June 13. This first-ever New York retrospective dedicated to Sophia Loren’s films will feature many brand-new restorations of her most enduring works, as well as an appearance by filmmaker Edoardo Ponti.
Sophia Loren’s eternal beauty, undeniable charisma, and naturalism of ever-surprising depth and sophistication have made her one of the greatest treasures of world cinema. Launched to global fame with her vividly embodied turn in Vittorio De Sica’s Two Women (1960)—for which she won a Cannes Best Actress prize, the British Academy Award, and the Oscar for Best Actress (making history as the first actress to win for a foreign-language film)—Loren represented something startlingly fresh and alluring to audiences from all over: here was perhaps the first international movie star. Moving freely between major Hollywood films and European productions, equally skilled at drama or comedy, she harnessed her versatile charm and earthy intensity for a range of directors—from Altman, Donen, and Chaplin, to Risi, Scola, and, on many occasions, De Sica (up to his final film)—and in indelible roles opposite the likes of Gregory Peck, Marlon Brando, Omar Sharif, and Marcello Mastroianni, with whom she fostered, across 14 features, one of cinema’s greatest on-screen duos.
Acknowledgements: Compass Film; Movietime; Palomar; Rai Cinema; Surf Film; Titanus.
Organized by Florence Almozini and Tyler Wilson of Film at Lincoln Center, and by Paola Ruggiero, Camilla Cormanni, and Marco Cicala of Cinecittà. Co-produced by Cinecittà, Rome.
Friday, June 7
Walter Reade Theater
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Saturday, June 8
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Sunday, June 9
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Monday, June 10
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Tuesday, June 11
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Wednesday, June 12
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Thursday, June 13
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The Life Ahead
Introduction by Edoardo Ponti on June 7
A Holocaust survivor turned children’s caretaker (Loren) forms an unlikely friendship with a bitter street kid (a spectacular Ibrahim Gueye) after he robs her.Poverty and Nobility
Too Bad She’s Bad
World Premiere of 4K Restoration
Mayhem ensues when an honest cabbie (Marcello Mastroianni) gets caught in the middle of a car theft by a working-class, thieving father and daughter—a smooth-talking Vittorio De Sica and Loren.The Sign of Venus
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
4K Digital Restoration
Mastroianni and Loren light up this breezy comic triptych of tales about love, sex, and class.Marriage Italian Style
4K Digital Restoration
Loren sizzles in an Oscar-nominated performance with Mastroianni in which their chemistry propels a 22-year relationship that begins as a near-flawless boudoir comedy, only to develop into something disarmingly moving.Arabesque
World Premiere of 4K Restoration
A deliriously mod comic-thriller that follows Gregory Peck and Loren zipping around London to Henry Mancini’s exotica-tinged score, and remains one of the finest—if manic—examples of Donen’s unmatched knack for tightly choreographed filmmaking.More Than a Miracle
A Countess from Hong Kong
New York Premiere of 4K Restoration
Charlie Chaplin’s underappreciated final film (his only in color) finds Sophia Loren as its titular character: Natascha, a passport-less Russian refugee in Hong Kong who escapes prostitution by sneaking into an American diplomat’s (Marlon Brando) ship cabin.The Voyage
A Special Day
4K Digital Restoration
She’s a conservative Mussolini supporter; he’s a homosexual enemy of the state. But after a chance meeting, the two share a life-changing day that will challenge their assumptions about people, politics, and sexuality.Ready to Wear
35mm print courtesy of the Harvard Film Archive
One of Robert Altman’s most underrated films is Nashville for the ’90s: a deliciously catty, star-studded satire set amidst the hubbub of Paris Fashion Week.Tickets are $17 for the General Public; $14 for Students, Seniors, and Persons with Disabilities; and $12 for FLC Members.
See more and save with a 3+ Film Package. $15 for the General Public; $12 for Students, Seniors, and Persons with Disabilities; and $10 for FLC Members. Discount automatically applied in cart after adding three (3) or more films.
Complimentary tickets for FLC Members and Patrons are eligible for standard-priced screenings and events in this series.
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