Ermanno Olmi was an Italian film director and screenwriter. A selection of his works will be screened at The Capital theater thanks to a collaboration between the Italian Cultural Institute and Melbourne Cinémathèque.
The retrospective "The whisper of the generations: Ermanno Olmi’s realist cinema" features many of Olmi’s key works including his initial string of social-realist masterpieces, the Palme d’Or-winning opus that defines his popular and critical reputation, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, and his magisterial adaptation of Joseph Roth’s classic novella, The Legend of the Holy Drinker.
A talk titled "Il sentimento della realtà: Ermanno Olmi's cinema of Christian Humanism" will be delivered by Dr Gino Moliterno (ANU) as an introduction to the retrospective screening on Wednesdays October 2, 9, and 16 2019 at The Capitol. In collaboration with the Melbourne Cinémathèque.
Dr. Gino Moliterno is former Convener of the Film and New Media Studies Program at the Australian National University. Among his publications are the Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture (edited, 2000), a Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema (Scarecrow Press, 2008), and (co-authored with Gaetano Rando) Celluloid immigrant: Italian Australian filmmaker Giorgio Mangiamele (ATOM, 2011).
