Welcome to the LAVAZZA ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2006 website.

The BY POPULAR DEMAND sessions have been announced:

Palace Norton Street - Mon Nov 13
6.30PM MY BEST ENEMY
8.50PM THE WEDDING DIRECTOR

Palace Academy Twin - Mon Nov 13
6.30PM MY BEST ENEMY
8.50PM DAYS OF ABANDONMENT

Cinema Chauvel 
9.00PM BLOW UP - Thu Nov   9
9.00PM BLOW UP - Fri Nov 10
6.30PM THE RED DESERT - Sat  Nov 11
3.45PM THE PASSENGER - Sun Nov 12

Tickets now on sale at venues, or:
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- or call 1300 306 776 for telephone purchases

This year’s Festival will present an award-winning programme of contemporary films at Palace Norton Street, Leichhardt & Palace Academy Twin, Paddington, as well as an exciting Michelangelo Antonioni retrospective at The Chauvel, Paddington, the largest collection of films from legendary director ever screened together in Australia!

The Festival will open at 7.45pm on Thursday 26 October at Palace Norton Street with the Sydney premiere of popular actor and director Carlo Verdone’s MY BEST ENEMY, the delightful smash-hit generational comedy that re-unites Verdone with his Manual of Love co-star Silvio Muccino, followed by an official reception featuring a performance by Italy's pop-opera sensation Vittorio Grigolo!

Other contemporary film highlights include: Cannes Palme d’Or winning director Nanni Moretti’s THE CAIMAN; Academy Award-winning director Gabriele Salvatores’ slick thriller QUO VADIS, BABY?; Christina Comencini’s moving ‘family-secrets’ drama THE BEAST IN THE HEART starring the luminous Giovanna Mezzogiorno; Michele Placido's absorbing gangster epic CRIME NOVEL from the writers of the acclaimed The Best Of Youth; and renowned auteur Marco Bellocchio’s THE WEDDING DIRECTOR starring Sergio Castellito.

The Antonioni retrospective includes fifteen feature films, and four programmes of shorts and documentaries, with highlights including his first feature film CHRONICLE OF A LOVE (1950), his biggest success: the trilogy THE ADVENTURE (1960), THE NIGHT (1961) and THE ECLIPSE (1962) and his most famous international English-language films BLOW-UP (1966) and ZABRISKIE POINT (1970).

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