Audience choice
You may have noticed our suggestion box, located just outside our projection room at Casa d’Italia. It’s not there for decoration! We take great pleasure in going through the little slips of paper on which you write your film suggestions (especially because you have good taste in films). The ritual inspired “Audience Choice”, the series where you choose the films to be shown. What’s the next film in the series? Maybe you’ll be the one to decide on your next cinema outing…
Audience Choice
2001: A Space Odyssey
A tribe of ape-like beings are visited by a large black monolith. Thousands of years later, on the moon, a scientist discovers a similar object emitting a signal aimed at Jupiter.
Stanley Kubrick
United Kingdom
language: English
subtitles: French
134 min
Audience choice
Drive
A quiet, anonymous stuntman undergoes a metamorphosis as soon as night falls: he becomes a getaway driver for the mafia. It’s a well-oiled machine, until one of the heists goes wrong. A meeting with his new neighbor and her son also upsets his plans…
Nicolas Winding Refn
United States
language: English, Spanish
subtitles: French
100 min
Audience choice
Harold and Maude
The story of the emotional bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light.
Hal Ashby
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
91 min
Audience Choice
Jason et les argonautes
To regain his throne in Thessaly, Jason must conquer the Golden Fleece. He boards the Argo with the Argonauts, bold warriors and sailors, to reach the kingdom of Colchis.
Don Chaffey
United Kingdom, United States
language: English
subtitles: French
104 min
Audience Choice
Mort à Venise
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio, his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city.
Luchino Visconti
Italy
language: English
subtitles: French
131 min
Audience choice
The Big Lebowski
Living nonchalantly in Los Angeles, Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski doesn’t want any drama in his life… Heck, he can’t even be bothered with a job. But, he must embark on a quest with his bowling buddies after his rug is destroyed in a twisted case of mistaken identity.
Joel Coen
United States, United Kingdom
language: English
subtitles: French
117 min
Audience choice
The Princess Bride
A kid, home sick from school, grudgingly allows his grandfather to read him a dusty storybook—which is how we meet the innocent Buttercup, about to marry the nefarious Prince Humperdinck, though her heart belongs to the handsome Westley. A fairy-tale classic.
Rob Reiner
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
98 min
Public's choice
The Watermelon Woman
Cheryl investigates an obscure 1930s black performer known as Watermelon Woman. The latter’s story turns out to have surprising resonances with her own life.
Cheryl Dunye
United States
language: English
90 min
