Vita Gazette – My heart is drunk in Rome… What a joy it is to watch movies in Rome’s historical squares… Yes, every part of Rome has opened its arms to cinema lovers… This time, Quo Vadis is waiting for cinema lovers. Where? In the Colosseum, one of the most important heroes of human history.

To celebrate Rome, an extraordinary protagonist in the history of cinema, the second edition of Quo Vadis At the cinema in the heart of Rome, promoted by CSC – National Cineteca and Parco Archeologico del Colosseo, is presented this year, once again in the temple of Venus and Rome, an authentic tour of the world between film and city. It is a world tour that touches 13 cities on four continents in over a century of cinema history.

A tour that spans nine decades (from 1921 of Manhattan by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, the first avant-garde film of American cinema, to the Tokyo of Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola, dated 2003) and four continents. There are two Italian stages: the visionary and rambling Rome of Federico Fellini, to whom we could only entrust the opening, and the Naples scarred by the illegality of Le mani sulla città by Francesco Rosi. The obligatory capitals of cinema are (almost) all of them:

At the cinema in the heart of Rome’, scheduled for free admission from 4 to 16 July at the Temple of Venus and Rome, in the Colosseum Archaeological Park. The film arena, in the ruins of the Eternal City, will always start the films at 21, with access from 20.30 (bookings expire at 20.50).

The program

(all films in original version with Italian subtitles; Italian movies in original version with English subtitles)

Tuesday 4 July – ROME

Rome – Federico Fellini, 1972, 119

Wednesday 5th July – NEW YORK

Manhattan – Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, 1921, 10

Manhattan – Woody Allen, 1979, 97

Thursday 6 July – TAIPEI

Taipei Story – Edward Yang, 1985, 119

Friday 7 July – BERLIN

One two three! (One, Two, Three) – Billy Wilder, 1961, 110

Saturday 8 July – TOKYO

Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola, 2003, 104

Sunday 9 July – ISTANBUL

Topkapi – Jules Dassin, 1964, 120

Monday 10 July – NAPLES

Hands over the city – Francesco Rosi, 1963, 107

Tuesday 11 July – SILENT CITY

Aurora (Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans) – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927, 94

Live musical accompaniment by Maestro Antonio Coppola

Wednesday 12 July – DAKAR/CAIRO

Borom Sarret – Ousmane Sembène, 1963, 22

Cairo Station (Bāb al-Hadīd) – Youssef Chahine, 1958, 74

Thursday 13 July – MARIUPOL

Mariupolis – Mantas Kvedaravičius, 2016, 96

Friday 14 July – PARIS

There’s a rendezvous – Claude Lelouch, 1976, 9

Cléo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) – Agnès Varda, 1962, 90

Saturday, July 15 – LOS ANGELES

To Live and Die in L.A. – William Friedkin, 1985, 116

Sunday 16th July – LONDON

Blow up – Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966, 112