Fans of The Name of The Rose author Umberto Eco turned out in NYC, boosting the documentary on medieval scholar turned novelist and social commentator to over $9.1k on one screen – a nice showing b…
The Cinema Guildauthor Umberto Eco turned out in NYC, boosting the documentary on medieval scholar turned novelist and social commentator to over $9.1k on one screen – a nice showing by The Cinema Guild for a foreign language documentary on a solid weekend for some indie and arthouse fare.
explores the life and work of the famed Italian writer and semiotics professor, whose bestselling novel was turned into a 1986 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater as a medieval monk detective and his apprentice.
Director Davide Ferrario, who worked with Eco a year before the writer’s death on a video project for the 2015 Venice Biennale, gained access to his Milanese library of more than 30,000 contemporary books and 1,500 rare and antique volumes. In the doc, the prolific author and original thinker, who has waxed eloquent on blue jeans and comic books, holds forth on the value low-brow books, the origins of fascism, the psychology of conspiracy theorists and brilliant mistakes in history.
Ferrario was in NYC this weekend for the opening at Film Forum, and for shooting on the third in a trilogy of literary documentaries, this latest on Italo Calvino. His 2006 film,, retraces the steps of Italian scientist and writer as he and other Auschwitz survivors set off on an eight-month trek home to Turin in 1945. Levi’s words, mainly from his book La Tregua , describe what he experienced. into week three at an expanded 1,900 theaters and a no.
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