Description

Azienda di Promozione Turistica di Roma, [No date: circa 2002]. Wraps, 51, [1] pp.; 24 cm; illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs and film stills. In Good+ condition. Black and white pictorial wraps with some bumping and creasing and mild shelf wear. Binding tight (staple bound). Light spotting to edges of first and last leaves where black from covers has rubbed off onto pages. Gentle creasing to some pages. Otherwise unmarked. Film-location guide to Rome issued jointly by the city's tourist promotion office and the Roma Film Commission, with an introduction by Walter Veltroni, mayor of Rome 2001-2008, who launched the Rome Film Festival in 2006. Eight walking itineraries by district pair squares and streets with scenes shot there, from neorealism (Open City, The Bicycle Thief, Umberto D.) through Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini and Bertolucci to Roman Holiday, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Titus and Gangs of New York. Includes a list of the 53 films mentioned, with directors and page references, and the Film Commission's permit procedures and fees for shooting in Rome, given in euros. Trevi Fountain still from La Dolce Vita on front cover. Translated by Ludovica Nagel; graphics by Valeria Lemmi. Contents: Pantheon - Piazza Navona - Piazza Farnese - Piazza Mattei; Via Veneto - Fontana di Trevi - Piazza di Spagna - Piazza del Popolo; Colosseo - Campidoglio - Foro Romano - Aventino; Trastevere - Testaccio - Ostiense - Garbatella; Vaticano - San Pietro - Ponte Sant'Angelo - Piazza Cavour; Flaminio - Parioli - Salario - Nomentano; Pigneto - Tuscolano - Piazza San Giovanni Bosco - Cinecitta; Eur - Ostia; List of the mentioned motion pictures; Useful information to film in Rome