At Giunti Odeon is the new film by Bong Joon-ho, the Korean master director of the cult film Parasite, winner of 4 Academy Awards. Starring a stellar cast (Robert Pattinson, Mark Ruffallo, Toni Collette) and just presented at the Berlin Film Festival, the film is set in 2054: the lack of opportunities on Earth drives the masses to interstellar pilgrimage, which inevitably means exploitation by the powerful demagogues at the helm of these expeditions. One of them is Kenneth Marshall, a failed politician seeking a new era for humanity on an inhospitable planet inhabited by strange creatures. In order to escape dangerous moneylenders, Mickey Barnes agrees to board the spaceship by signing a contract as an expendable, a handyman destined to die repeatedly thanks to a technology that allows a body to be ‘reprinted’ indefinitely while maintaining its consciousness.

To celebrate the first, legendary chapter of the Ragioniere film saga, Giunti Odeon, in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, brings the restoration of Fantozzi to the big screen, on the very day of the 50th anniversary of the film's release: Thursday 27 March 2025.

On 27 March 1975, exactly fifty years ago, one of the most formidable comic masks of the entire 20th century in Italy saw the light of day on the screen - after a successful passage in story form. Paolo Villaggio, its inventor and performer, had indeed been an employee, and the world he described knew him intimately. Based on the two novels that Paolo Villaggio published for Rizzoli in 1971 (Fantozzi) and 1974 (Il secondo tragico libro di Fantozzi), the film Fantozzi was directed by Luciano Salce. Like that of a mysterious hero, the cinematographic epiphany of Rag. Ugo Fantozzi takes place from behind: a back shot, a blow to the head, and the character already has his destiny sewn on. The face is, of course, that of its author, who had been polishing his features on television for some time, and then pulled from the pages of two best-sellers what we can now consider the most popular comic mask in Italy.

At Giunti Odeon the film that won 5 awards at the Oscars (including Best Movie) and the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. Anora, known as Ani, is an American erotic dancer of Russian origin, an expert in lap dances, who takes clients to private rooms offering them extra services for a fee. One day at the club where she works Ivan arrives, a Russian boy who seems enthusiastic about her and her many talents. The next day Ivan invites her to his house, and Ani discovers that the boy lives in a megavilla and is the only son of a multi-billionaire oligarch. Things go so well between the two boys that Ivan takes Ani to Las Vegas and there asks her to marry him. But his parents don't agree at all, and send a small ‘intervention team’ to retrieve their misguided son. What follows is a rousing adventure full of surprises, which nevertheless does not forget to have a heart and an eye for reality even within comic exaggeration. The film is forbidden to minors under the age of 14.

At Giunti Odeon the premiere of one of the most eagerly awaited films of the year: Queer. The film will be presented by Protagonist actor Daniel Craig and director Luca Guadagnino (in video link-up). Queer, adapted from the novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs and already in competition at the last Venice Film Festival, is set in 1950. William Lee is an American in his forties expatriate in Mexico City. He spends his days almost entirely alone, apart from his few relationships with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, a young student who has just arrived in the city, deludes him for the first time of the possibility of finally establishing an intimate connection with someone. Queer will be screened at Giunti Odeon from 17 April.

Almost fifty years after its theatrical release, Martin Scorsese's masterpiece starring Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver, returns to the big screen at Giunti Odeon in an extraordinary 4K restored version (in Italian), to relive the great visual and narrative power of a film that has forever marked the history of cinema. Taxi Driver recounts the descent into madness of Travis Bickle, a former marine and night taxi driver, alienated from a corrupt and violent New York. Between insomnia, loneliness and a growing obsession with violence, Travis falls into a spiral of madness that leads him to plan an extreme act. Featuring Paul Schrader as screenplay and accompanied by Bernard Herrmann's score, the film explores themes of alienation, violence and redemption in a dark and suffocating metropolis. A Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Taxi Driver has become a cultural icon thanks to Scorsese's visionary direction and the extraordinary performance of Robert De Niro, flanked by a very young Jodie Foster and Harvey Keitel. This 4K restored edition offers an unprecedented visual and sound experience, allowing audiences to rediscover every detail of a film that defined an era.

More than forty years after its first release, Amadeus, Milos Forman's masterpiece and winner of no fewer than eight Academy Awards, returns to the big screen at Giunti Odeon in an incredible 4K restored version, ready to captivate audiences once again and take them back to the heart of an extraordinary musical era, 18th century Vienna.

In the Vienna of Joseph II, son of Maria Theresa of Austria, comes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He is introduced by Salieri, a court musician, respected and appreciated everywhere. Within a short time Mozart's immense talent arouses great enthusiasm, but also enmity and jealousy. Salieri, who knows the limits of his musical professionalism, thus begins to harbour a genuine hatred towards him. He admires his art but deplores his insolent behaviour and foul language. But Mozart also seems to triumph in the Sovereign's soul, while Salieri, consumed with envy, swears to himself that he will not rest until he sees his rival dead. Despite his great successes, Mozart at the end of his short life finds himself poor and abandoned by his wife Constance. He agrees to compose a Requiem, which he dictates to Salieri himself because he is too ill. All this is narrated by Salieri himself locked in a chronicarium, now old and restless.