A vote is scheduled for next week in Italy that can transform cultural places in Rome – including 50 cinemas – into shopping centers and supermarkets. Martin Scorsese are among the filmmakers who portray to save them.
Architect Renzo Piano has Shared a letter Which showed up has now been approved by filmmakers and Hollywood fixtures includes Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, Spee Lee, Wes Anderson, David Cronberg, Ari Aster, Julie Taymor, Yorororororos Lanthmos, JD Abrams, Juddow, Josh Safdie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie, Toddie. Damien Chazelle, Mark Cousins, Alfoonso Cuarón, Willm Dafoe, Robert Eggers, Jonna Hogg, Dawn Hudson, Isabella Rosselni, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Schrader, Léa Seydou, John Turro, Thomas Vinterberg, Jeremy Thomas, Paweł Pwlicowski and Debra Winger.
The Lazio region’s government, which hosts the Italian capital, is approving a law that will be voted on next week that would make 50 cinemas, including Roma’s many historical and abandoned cinemas, vulnerable to new development and becoming commercial real estate. Indiewire understands that Italian properties are already looking at these places to potentially convert them while waiting for the vote. Over 500 filmmakers have signed an appeal in the Italian press, including Venice Film Festival Director Alberto Barbera and asks to preserve these spaces. Italy’s own top football player and former as Roma captain Francesco Totti Has also stated strongly as opposed to the upcoming vote.
Here is what Scorsese had to say in a statement shared with IndieWire: “Since Renzo -Piano eloquently reflects on the current situation in Rome, it is obvious that the attempt to reuse spaces intended for the possible cultural renaissance of the eternal city to hotels, shopping centers And supermarkets are completely unacceptable. Such a transformation would represent an irrevocable loss: a deeply Holy not only to the city’s rich history but also to cultural heritage for the future generations. We urge our colleagues all over the world, festival leaders and all cultural operators to sign this letter to save the last chance of redemption of one of the most important cultural and artistic cities all over the world. This letter is also personally processed to President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to prevent the transformation of the cultural spaces in Rome. It is our duty to convert these abandoned “cathedrals in the desert” into real cultural temples, places that can close to the souls in both current and future generations. ”
Indieview has been in contact with the leaders of Little Americawhich runs both Rome’s largest outdoor film festival and The Cinema Troisi, a single screen theater in Rome that plays 24 hours a day. They ask for more signatures to be sent to protect parks and historical sites in Rome. You can write to valerio.carocci@piccoloamerica.it, “Whether you love Rome and may have gone to the parks and the places in our cinema in Piazza or because you have visited the movie Troisi in Piccolo America in Rome,” said Carcci.
“As Renzo Piano wrote, and I subscribe after spending three months around Paris and Marseilles who studied their cultural offers, we believe that these cultural spaces can develop as ‘Tiers-Lieux’ that I had the pleasure of experiencing in France. Each of these can certainly return to be a cinema, but the important thing is that they open again as cultures and education, temples to nourish the soul and creativity … if we save these places from transformation to commercial centers, there may be dawn of a new world in Rome; A cultural renaissance that Italy needs. We ask for help from all over the world for the city where we were born and raised. “
