Smog in 4K
Smog in 4K
Pre-screening Q&A with Todd Wiener, Motion Picture Curator at UCLA Film & Television Archive and Luca Celada, Correspondent/Film Critic, il Manifesto, moderated by Larry Karaszewski, Writer and former AMPAS Vice President.
One of many international filmmakers drawn to Hollywood in the 1960s, Franco Rossi brought his cast and crew to Los Angeles to shoot the city’s first-ever Italian-American co-production. As an Italian attorney’s vapid pursuits during a 24-hour layover take him between architectural marvels and anonymous locations, his encounters offer a darker take on the sunbaked vision typically manufactured by Tinseltown—and per the film’s title, his view is anything but rose-tinted. Never officially released in the US, and newly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, fans of LA’s architectural history will find much to discover under the film’s often cynical microscope.
DIRECTED BY: Franco Rossi. WRITTEN BY: Franco Rossi, Pier Maria Pasinetti, Gian Domenico Giagni, Franco Brusati, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Ugo Guerra. WITH: Enrico Maria Salerno, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, Max Showalter. 1962. 100 min. Italy. B&W. Italian. 4K DCP. Restored by Fondazione Cineteca Di Bologna and the UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Restoration funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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