CSC
February 19, 2026
Scheduled at the MAXXI Auditorium from February 28, with free admission.
After the excellent response recorded by the review "The great restored Italian cinema", the CSC - Cineteca Nazionale and the MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts are once again collaborating together for a new review dedicated to genre cinema of yesterday and today, in a happy and fertile comparison.
The curator of the festival, the historian and film critic Fabio Melelli, explains: "Genres have always been the backbone of national cinema, today they are more alive than ever, sometimes declined in a different way from the past, but always present on Italian screens, whether small or large. The review intends to examine some of the most significant works of Italian film production, of yesterday and today, in which the classic genres find an absolutely peculiar and authorial location. A review that takes its cue from the Po Valley Gothic by Pupi Avati, represented by one of his most recent titles, 'Il signor Diavolo', an authentic summa of the Bolognese master's work, ideally compared with the masterpiece of the seventies thriller, 'Deep Red' by Dario Argento, then passing through the classic noir by Fernando Di Leo, 'Milano Calibro 9', also celebrated for his extraordinary soundtrack, in a rock-progressive theme, by Osanna and the contemporary neo-noir 'Dogman' by Matteo Garrone. Without forgetting the great season of the Italian western, evoked with two of his most famous and beloved films, an unattainable model for legions of filmmakers, the elegiac and fairytale 'Once upon a time in the west' by Sergio Leone and the visionary and surreal 'Django' by Sergio Corbucci».
The President of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Gabriella Buontempo said: "This exhibition is part of the fruitful collaboration between the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts. The films proposed by the Cineteca Nazionale find new life and an audience of enthusiasts for a cycle of screenings that relaunch the great Italian cinema as an opportunity for meeting and debate, renewing the ritual of Sunday screening for the whole family and creating new habits for the new generations. Great authors and popular films, as in the great tradition of our cinema».
SUNDAY 8 MARCH
at 16:30 Once Upon a Time in the West by Sergio Leone
(1968)
Introduced by Fabio Melelli
A lone gunslinger, Harmonica, arrives in Flagstone to meet Frank, but only finds his henchmen trying to kill him. In the meantime, Frank and his other gunslingers exterminate the entire McBain family at Sweetwater: they are hitmen of the railroad magnate Morton who wants to take possession of that land, destined to become the nerve center of the new railway route. To mess up his plans, however, comes Jill, a former prostitute from New Orleans, whom Brett McBain married and who is therefore now the owner of the land.
Once the courtly rules of the genre have been subverted in the dollar trilogy, Leone tries to immerse himself in the classic atmosphere of the western by keeping the figure of the infallible and solitary gunslinger (Harmonica) steady, but opening the story to the legendary spaces of Monument Valley and taking inspiration from one of the main themes of the conquest of the West, the advance of civilization along the railroad tracks. With Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale and Henry Fonda. Music by Ennio Morricone. From a story by Leone, Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci.
SUNDAY 29 MARCH
at 16:30 Django by Sergio Corbucci (1966, 92')
Introduced by Fabio Melelli
Border between the United States and Mexico: in a remote village, devastated by the clashes between a racist sect commanded by Major Jackson and the revolutionaries led by General Rodríguez, Django arrives, a war veteran seeking revenge for the murder of his wife. After getting the better of Jackson's men and winning the trust of the revolutionaries, Django is betrayed. Seriously injured, the man decides to face his nemesis once and for all... A true cult movie of the spaghetti western genre, Django has given rise to an endless saga, with often apocryphal titles. In the central role we find Franco Nero: thanks to this film the Italian actor has achieved enormous popularity even on the international territory. Recently honored by Tarantino in his "Django Unchained".
All appointments are free admission subject to availability.
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