Giunti Odeon presents Steven Spielberg’s highly anticipated return with what critics have already hailed as one of the films of the year—and some have even called it “Spielberg’s best film of the past twenty years.” The story centers on a Kansas City meteorologist, played by Emily Blunt. During a live television broadcast, the woman loses her voice and begins to emit a series of sinister, alien “ticks,” leaving the audience and her colleagues in a state of shock. This event is just the beginning of what is known as “Revelation Day.” While the government tries to contain the panic, a group of individuals argues that the truth about extraterrestrial presence belongs to the seven billion people inhabiting the planet and should no longer be a state secret. The film explores what would happen if humanity discovered irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial life on our planet, bringing Spielberg back to the realm he has done more than anyone else to turn into a popular myth: that of the encounter with aliens.

Giunti Odeon presents the third installment of the “Marilyn 100” retrospective, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth (June 1, 1926), with Billy Wilder’s legendary The Seven Year Itch. Richard Sherman, who works at a small publishing house in New York, is left alone in the city while his wife and son leave for their summer vacation. Returning home after seeing them off at the train station, he discovers that a commercial actress has moved in upstairs. He is immediately taken with her, and the situation becomes complicated when he reads the galleys of a book in which a psychologist discusses the seven-year marriage crisis. From that moment on, Richard begins to fantasize about his own power of seduction, and when a tomato plant falls from upstairs, a new encounter is in store for him with the neighbor who has just told him that she keeps her underwear in the fridge because of the intense heat. François Truffaut claimed that this is Billy Wilder’s most wicked and scandalous film. Scandalous because it is rife with sexual innuendo, and wicked because the male character comes across as sordid, consumed by his erotic passions and steeped in petty-bourgeois vice. Marilyn, the embodiment of the male fantasy, is nonetheless too beautiful, too clever, and too brilliant for him. A dream that surpasses the dreamer.

Francois Truffaut sosteneva che si tratta del film più cattivo e scandaloso di Billy Wilder. Scandaloso perché le allusioni sessuali si sprecano, e cattivo perché il maschio fa una figura sordida, preso dalle sue passioni erotiche e intriso di vizio piccolo-borghese. Marilyn, materializzazione del sogno maschile, è comunque troppo bella, furba e brillante per lui. Un sogno che supera il sognatore.

One of Hayao Miyazaki’s greatest masterpieces and one of the greatest in the history of animated cinema returns to the big screen at Giunti Odeon: Princess Mononoke, in a stunning new 4K version. After a clash with a beast possessed by a demon, Prince Ashitaka is afflicted by a deadly curse. He therefore sets out on a journey to discover its origin and seek a cure from the great Beast God, the only one capable of healing him. Upon arriving in the regions where the beast came from, he discovers a war between humans and a primitive race of forest animals—giants, sentient beings aided by the one they call the Ghost Princess, a girl raised by wolves who has renounced humanity. On the other side, the humans, led by Lady Eboshi — who governs her village of blacksmiths with love, justice, and compassion — want to work the mountain and cut down the trees to extract iron (a source of wealth). In the midst of this, a group of monks tries to incite the humans to kill the Beast God and steal his head because, it is said, it grants eternal youth. Before the screening, all audience members will receive a complimentary reprint of the film’s original poster.

Giunti Odeon presents the fourth and final appointment of the “Marilyn 100” retrospective, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth (June 1, 1926), with The Misfits, one of John Huston’s masterpieces. Immediately after signing the papers to finalize her divorce, the beautiful Roslyn Taber meets a gambling-loving cowboy, Gay Langland, and a former pilot, Guido Racanelli. The two men fall in love with the young woman at first sight, and the three of them decide to move in together in a house in the desert. It is the era in which Marilyn seeks controversial support for her mental decline in Paula Strasberg, Lee’s wife and a teacher at the Actor’s Studio; Montgomery Clift, though in a somewhat limited role, is magnificent in his aged innocence (amidst some Oedipal issues). Arthur Miller writes for a wife he is leaving, and Russell Metty delivers breathtaking cinematography.

The most famous film in the history of Italian cinema returns to the big screen at Giunti Odeon, in a restored version with English subtitles: one of Federico Fellini's masterpieces, La dolce vita (1960). In Rome, in broad daylight, a statue of Jesus Christ appears in the sky, transported by a helicopter. The vision arouses the interest of a large part of the population, from the youngsters of the suburbs to the rich ladies of the penthouses in the city centre, and a reporter, Marcello Rubini, takes the opportunity to have the scenes immortalised by his photographer friends and the faithful photojournalist Paparazzo. Marcello is an aspiring writer who works for a tabloid newspaper, stationed every night in front of the clubs in Via Vittorio Veneto in search of some gossip or sensational photos of the acquaintances of showbiz personalities, rich bourgeoisies or aristocrats in search of excess. Despite living with a very jealous and depressed woman, Emma, Marcello has acquaintances with women of all kinds and from all walks of life. On the day an important Swedish actress arrives in Rome, Marcello accompanies the delegation to an open-air club in the Roman ruins and then escapes with the woman through the streets of central Rome.

Giunti Odeon presents one of the most anticipated films of recent years: The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan, the epic blockbuster that adapts Homer’s poem. The film follows the perilous journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as he struggles to return home to his wife Penelope after the Trojan War. The hero faces mythological monsters (such as Polyphemus and the Sirens) and the wrath of the gods, only to find his homeland occupied by hostile suitors upon his return to Ithaca.