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Taormina Film Exhibition: the festival, the protagonists, the locations


District: Sicily
Province: Messina (ME)
Locations: Taormina (ME)
Date: 2017-01-02

Taormina Film Exhibition: the festival, the protagonists, the locations

Taormina Cinema

Taormina is certainly one of the great location of the Italian cinema.

Taormina, land of cinema

Taormina Cinema

On the one hand because it is home from more than 60 years of one of the great Film Festival.

On the other because Taormina has been and is a prestigious set where major movies were filmed.

Since 1919, when it was shot in Taormina French silent film L'appel du sang by Louis Mercanton, were more than 40 films shot in Taormina.

Great italian and international directors have chosen this prestigious location for their shoot.

Michelangelo Antonioni, Giuseppe Tornatore, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Alberto Lattuada, Luc Besson, Luigi Zampa, Nanni Loy, Roberto Benigni, Carlo Verdone, with dozens of other prominent directors.

Truly remarkable is then the list of actors who have shot their scenes in these places or participated in the prestigious Film Festival.

From Woody Allen to Jack Nicholson to Richard Burton. From Ingrid Bergman to Marlene Dietrich, Liz Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. And then Rita Hayworth, Sophia Loren, Giulietta Masina, Gina Lollobrigida, Shirley MacLaine, Fanny Ardant, Sandra Bullock, Joan Crawford. And many others.

Taormina Film Exhibition

Taormina Cinema

The exhibition Taormina Film traces the key stages of this history of Taormina as a city of film.

The 60-year history of the Taormina Film Festival, but also the many locations that Taormina offered to Cinema.

Inaugurated on December 27 in the premises of the Ex Local Court, Taormina Cinema will remain open until next January 6th.

The exhibition was organized by Taormina Arte, coordinated by the General Secretary Ninni Panzera.

The exhibition was curated by Francesca Cannavò and his staff.

There is a long series of photos that started in the beginning of the Festival in Messina until today. There are films shot in Taormina and the novelty of Polaroid pictures, for the first time on display. They are in 70-100 format, which is certainly a huge size for this type.

The exhibition continues the work of promotion of this territory linked to the cinema started with the exhibition The Cinema Above Taormina - One Hundred Years of places, stories, characters and films, organized in 2013.

Taormina Film is a really interesting exhibition which is definitely worth a visit.

By inhabitants who can relive beautiful pages of the history of their territory.

And by tourists who can admire these territories with the eye of film and penetrate the most intimate secrets.

 

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