The films of two immense masters of the history of cinema offered at Giunti Odeon in splendid and extremely rare restored versions. We start with the 34 comedies interpreted and shot by Charlie Chaplin for the Keystone Company between 2 February and 7 December 1914. In less than twelve months Chaplin went from being an almost unknown vaudeville actor to a film star. He learnt to conceive, direct and edit his own films: just one year of whirlwind activity and a world taking shape, a character gradually taking possession of his own suit, a filmmaker conquering his place in front of and behind the camera. The Keystone comedies record, in real time, and with a dynamism, vitality and energy that are unrepeatable, the birth and evolution of one of the 20th century's most universal characters. It continues with three overwhelming masterpieces by Buster Keaton: ‘Cops’ (1922), ‘The High Sign’ (1921), ‘Neighbours’ (1921). 

François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard: two great masters of film history, undisputed protagonists of an unrepeatable season as the French Nouvelle vague. First friends, then rivals, very different from each other, but both bound by a visceral love for cinema: at Giunti Odeon a series of documentary films recounting their contrasting relationship. 

Three films released in recent years that have entered the collective imagination of our time. Winners of numerous Oscars, directed by great directors and starring famous actors, these three films are now to be regarded as true new cinema classics.

An 'other' look at America. Low budgets, little-known actors or stars who put themselves on the line, original stories, far from clichés and stereotypes, able to excite and make us reflect. At Giunti Odeon three cult films of American independent cinema made in recent years.

When one of the greatest British actors and directors meets the queen of detective stories. In recent years Kenneth Branagh has begun adapting Agatha Christie's most famous novels for the cinema, impersonating with originality and sophistication the most famous of her characters: Hercule Poirot. Giunti Odeon offers the first two films of this ‘series’.

Events are back, and in September we’re bringing you a new #Autografiagogò meet & greet: this time with Karim B., author of Limitless – Senza pietà (Sperling & Kupfer)!

From August 6, you can pre-order your copy by visiting Giunti Odeon! With the preorder, you’ll receive a pass for the priority signing line.

Useful information:

• The priority pass is available with the preorder of the book made in-store, or with the purchase of the book (in-store only) from the release date until the day of the event. Passes will be distributed with specific time slots.

• In the priority line, you must show both the pass and your receipt.

• Once the priority line is complete, anyone who has not purchased the book from us (and therefore has no pass) will be allowed into the signing.

• The number of books that can be signed depends on the author’s availability (we recommend prioritizing the new release).

The book:

Sky Miller thought that, after all the pain, she could finally breathe. That her wounds would heal, that love would conquer hate, and that the past could stay where it belonged. But when the fragile balance she fought to build begins to crumble, Sky finds herself back on the front lines. This time, however, the enemy isn’t just outside.

Trevor De Marco has learned to live with his demons. He has sought redemption, done everything he could to rebuild himself. But some mistakes can’t be erased, and some truths can no longer stay buried. Now that Sky is back in his life, every certainty he’s clung to starts to crack. The only way to survive may be to finally face everything he’s always run from.

What Sky and Trevor share is not just love—it’s a battle. Against the world, against others, against themselves. But they’re not alone. Along this journey through pain, forgiveness, and rage are Jake, Dean, Ivy, Angel, Tom, Evan, Chloe: the Raiders. A bond that goes beyond blood, beyond law, beyond reason.

As the past comes knocking and danger slips through the cracks, each of them will be forced to make a choice: stay or run. Fight or surrender. Lose everything or risk it all for those they love. Because true courage is not the absence of fear—it’s choosing to fight despite it. And when love returns, stronger than anger, it might not be the end at all, but the beginning of something that will change them forever.

T

he author:

Karim B. is the pen name of an Italian author. She describes herself as passionate about vampires, Taylor Swift, and her paternal grandmother’s cooking. She began writing by experimenting first with poetry and then with full stories, which became popular among readers on Wattpad and TikTok. Since 2024, Sperling & Kupfer has been publishing the Limitless series.

Giunti Odeon events are back with a very special guest: Felicia Kingsley, the queen of romance, returns to present her latest book Scandal in Hollywood (Newton Compton Editori) alongside Serena Dottore Giachino.

From August 6, you can pre-order your copy at Giunti Odeon! With the preorder, you’ll receive a pass for the priority signing line.

Useful information:

• The priority pass is available with the preorder of the book made in-store, or with the purchase of the book (in-store only) from the release date until the day of the event. Passes will be distributed in time slots.

• In the priority line, you must show both the pass and your receipt.

• Once the priority line is complete, anyone who has not purchased the book from us (and therefore has no pass) will be allowed into the signing.

• The number of books that can be signed depends on the author’s availability (we recommend prioritizing the new release).

The book:

Sofia Cortez has always dreamed of working as an investigative journalist in the newsroom of a major newspaper. The harsh reality, however, has her stuck at the desk of Hollywood and Beyond, a publication on the brink of collapse which, to avoid losing sponsors, asks her to cover what she hates most: gossip.

Hayden West—better known as “Wild Wild West”—is the king of gossip: every celebrity fears him, no secret is safe from him, and he always knows everything before anyone else. His tell-all book UnHollywood tops every bestseller list. Long-time rivals since their university days, Hayden and Sofia lead opposite yet parallel lives… until they find themselves chasing the same story. The cutthroat competition reignites at first glance, triggering a battle for the ultimate scoop.

Under the Hollywood spotlight, between exclusive parties and investigations skirting the edge of legality, Hayden and Sofia might discover that teaming up could be more useful than fighting—especially when the sparks between them threaten to set everything ablaze.

The author:

Felicia Kingsley is an Italian romance novelist. She works as an architect, a profession she balances with writing. She debuted with Matrimonio di convivenza (“Marriage of Convenience”), initially self-published and later republished by Newton Compton. The publisher has also released Stronze si nasce (2020), Una Cenerentola a Manhattan (2020), La verità è che non ti odio abbastanza (2021), Bugiarde si diventa (2021), Due cuori in affitto (2022), Non è un paese per single (2022), Ti aspetto a Central Park (2022), as well as the novellas Il mio regalo inaspettato (2022), Appuntamento in terrazzo (2022), Una ragazza d’altri tempi (2023), Una conquista fuori menù (2024), and Ex Files. Il diario delle tue disavventure amorose (2024).

She writes under a pseudonym: “Felicia is a name very similar to my real one, and it has always inspired me as a good omen, a wish for happiness. Kingsley is a surname I often used for my fictional characters when I wrote fanfiction in high school, and I kept it out of affection.”

Giunti Odeon pays tribute to one of the most important directors of contemporary cinema, James Cameron, with his most famous film: an absolute masterpiece that marked the imagination, moving and enamouring several generations.

Children... let's read together at GO!

Every Sunday, from 11:00 to 12:00, our readers will take you through the pages of wonderful books, right under the stage at GO! Soft pillows and plenty of stories await you to end the week beautifully!

Each child who participates will receive a card where they can collect a sticker for each reading. Collect all 5 stickers on the card, and you'll receive a complimentary book (chosen from a selection of curated collections).

Free admission and no reservation required. Readings will be carried out only when the necessary attendance is reached.

At Giunti Odeon the traditional Sunday appointment with all the great Disney and Pixar classics! To see and see again the great animated films that over many years have enchanted generations of viewers, young and old!

With us at GO: Ilaria Maria D'Urbano presenting a poetic performance from her book Mani di prugna (Nino Aragno Editore), with an introduction by Ginevra Barbetti.

The book:

This collection, to which the author has given the evocative title Mani di prugna, gathers verses written between August 2022 and September 2023, a difficult time marked by pain, development, and personal growth.
The year began with a painful move—from an apartment in the center of Florence, on the fourth floor with no elevator, to a small house surrounded by greenery in the Florentine countryside. Settling into a new place generates an initial sense of disorientation that inevitably, and powerfully, demands a reconfiguration of identity. At the same time, however, it offers a magnificent opportunity for renewal.

These and other life circumstances weave an unceasing dialogue between life, death, and love. Here, words are given back to the dead, to the forgotten, while those who remain are entrusted with the task of questioning mystery. Loss and mourning take on a new guise, within a dimension of reciprocity.

The author:

Ilaria Maria D'Urbano is a poet, writer, and screenwriter. She has published the poetry collections Mirra (2023), Frantoio(2021), and the novel Alma, il dolore agile (with a preface by Pupi Avati, 2020). Her short film Alma, for which she wrote the story and screenplay, is its cinematic transposition. From Mani di prugna arise two multidisciplinary projects: E poi…? Dialogue between Love and Death — a theatrical experience, and Cuori sepolti — a meditation and writing encounter held in the cemetery.

Another book presentation + signing is coming up!
Fannie Heather will present her latest novel Violent Life (Magazzini Salani) together with Cami Blue!

Admission is free. No passes will be required for the signing session—there will be a single line for all participants.

The Book

WHEN A REPORTER IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH MEETS A SERIAL KILLER DETERMINED TO HIDE IT, PASSION CAN BECOME THE ULTIMATE CONDEMNATION.

Nadine is twenty-three years old and has a dream: becoming a reporter. An internship at the Hollow Fey Magazine, the city’s most prestigious newspaper, finally seems to open the door to the future she’s always wanted. But when she’s asked to write an article about Armon Windblack—the notorious serial killer sentenced to death whose crimes shook the entire country—she realizes her task will be anything but simple.

Armon is nothing like she imagined. Nor like everyone describes him. Behind the mask of a monster hides not only a dangerous man, but also someone enigmatic, charismatic, and disturbingly intelligent. And the more Nadine digs into his story, the more she finds herself trapped in a web of lies, secrets, and untold truths.

Torn between a boyfriend who grows ever more distant, unable to understand the darkness she’s slipping into, and a man who can read her soul more than she would like, Nadine must face a series of unsettling questions: How much are you willing to sacrifice for the truth? And how much can you lose when you start to desire what you should fear the most?

Driven by a dangerous attraction and choices that defy all logic, Nadine will discover that the truth, at times, is a deadly trap. And to tell it, one must first live it—on their own skin. Even at the cost of being lost.

The Author

Fannie Heather is the pen name of a young Italian writer who first debuted on Wattpad before arriving in bookstores, winning the affection of a solid community of readers. While writing, she enjoys listening to the sound of rain through her headphones. Violent Life is her first novel published by Magazzini Salani.

At GO, the presentation of ConTatto - Io, il buio e la fisioterapia by Paolo Boccia (Le Lettere).
In conversation with the author will be Lady Radio journalist Eva Edili, Professor Mariella Zoppi, and psychologist and psychotherapist Dr. Piero Pirro.

The book:
After the success of his autobiography Dal mio punto di vista, Paolo Boccia returns with his new book, in which he recounts—without filters—his journey as a physiotherapist, from his beginnings at the CTO Hospital in Florence to today. His narrative draws on more than thirty years of professional experience. But don’t expect this book to present physiotherapy merely as a profession: the relationship with the patient is never reduced to simply resolving a specific and punctual physical problem, although that is important. Instead, it is part of a broader healing process in which body and mind form a single whole. The relationship Paolo builds with his patients is based on two key elements: listening and energy. Listening means trying to understand the issues, the tensions, the deeper causes from which physical discomfort often arises. Energy, on the other hand, is transmitted, received, produced: a virtuous cycle that accompanies rehabilitation, helps to restore confidence in one’s own abilities, and leads to recovery. Through anecdotes, people, and unique situations, Paolo— with his ironic and direct style—reveals the most profound and human side of his work as a physiotherapist.

The author:
Paolo Boccia (1968) was born to parents from southern Italy and lives in Florence. In 1984, an accident caused him to lose his sight. He earned his degree in physiotherapy and, since 1990, has worked at the CTO Hospital in Florence. He pursues his passions with enthusiasm: cars, animals—especially dogs—and traveling, which allows him to discover the traditions, flavors, and scents of the world. Above all, however, there is music: he began very young as a radio speaker, and in 1991 he founded the management agency Master Star.

Francesco Carofiglio will join us to present his latest book Tutto il mio folle amore (Garzanti), together with Nicoletta Verna.

The book:
July 1943, Bari. A peaceful march of students celebrating the fall of the Fascist regime clashes with a line of soldiers and militia. Gunshots tear through the scorching air, cutting down dozens of young lives marching for freedom. Alessandro Latorre, seventeen years old, stands powerless before this brutal violence—an event that will forever mark his generation. For him, as for many others, that summer is when innocence ends. Italo Acquaviva, known as Lallo, is Ale’s “twin cousin,” born the same day of the same year. They are opposites yet inseparable. Lallo is a rebel, a sports champion, a rising star of the city’s rowing club; Ale, politically engaged, excels at his classical high school studies and plays in the Jazz Boys, a small underground band.

In September, after the armistice, a group of young intellectuals takes over the Radio Bari station. In no time, what was once a tool of Fascist propaganda becomes the most important voice of the resistance in Europe. It is in those radio studios that Alessandro meets Carolina Fitzgerald, an Italian-Irish girl who fled Rome with her family after the bombing. Carolina is brilliant, witty, stunningly beautiful, and a gifted singer. The lives of these young people, teetering on the edge of a collapsing world, are about to change forever.

Francesco Carofiglio offers us a sweeping story of courage, friendship, and love, in which the dreams of adolescence intertwine with the harsh reality of a wounded Italy. Against the backdrop of events shaping the course of the world conflict, Alessandro, Lallo, and Carolina cross the threshold into adulthood, never to look back. From the microphones of Radio Bari rise the notes of a new music. A voice of hope emerges—the voice of those who refuse to give up and have chosen to fight. The resistance belongs to everyone.

The author:
An architect, director, and illustrator, Francesco Carofiglio has worked for many years as an actor and playwright. He writes screenplays and scripts for film and television. In addition to L’estate del cane nero (Marsilio, 2008, four editions), he published the novel With or Without You (BUR, 2005) and, with his brother Gianrico, the graphic novel Cacciatori nelle tenebre (Rizzoli, 2007). His more recent novels include Wok (Piemme, 2014), La casa nel bosco(Rizzoli, 2014), Voglio vivere una volta sola (Piemme, 2014), Una specie di felicità (Piemme, 2017), Il maestro(Piemme, 2017), the children’s book Jonas e il mondo nero (Piemme, 2018), L’estate dell’incanto (Piemme, 2019), and Prometto che ti darò il mondo (Piemme, 2021). With Feltrinelli he published Cattivi. Mister H. (2022) and Cattivi. Lady M (2023). In 2024, Garzanti released La stagione bella.

On the GO stage, Valerio Mieli presents his latest book Scelgo tutto (La nave di Teseo).

The book:
One boy, two possible lives told in parallel. In one, he stays where he grew up; in the other, he leaves in search of freedom. Cosimo is at the age when major decisions about the future must be made—even if he would gladly avoid making them. One evening, a woman invites him to turn his life around, and two worlds suddenly open before him. On one side: adventure, art, an extreme life. On the other: the building of love and family. Ambitions, sorrows, regrets, and laughter will shape Cosimo, until both lives are crossed by a decisive encounter, and by a question: is there only one right path to happiness?

The author:
Valerio Mieli is an Italian director, screenwriter, and writer. He won the David di Donatello and the Nastro d’Argento in 2009 for his debut film Dieci inverni — released the same year as the novel of the same name —and the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival’s Giornate degli Autori in 2018 for the film Ricordi?, starring Luca Marinelli.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 1: A visual revelation

Pasolini's first contact with the world of cinema came in the mid-1950s, when the writer and poet began working as a screenwriter. From there, it was a short step to directing, partly because Pasolini wanted to redefine his role as an intellectual and engage with a language, that of cinema, which was still unknown to him. The making of his first film, Accattone (1961), drawing on the neorealist tradition, allowed him to show the world of the Roman underclass in its twilight years. His visual and cultural sources are already evident in the film: Dante, Giotto, Masaccio, Bach.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 2: The “written language of reality”
After his debut film, Pasolini began to reflect on cinema from a theoretical point of view, defining cinematic language as “the written language of reality” and reasoning allegorically about some of its forms, such as editing, sequence shots, indirect free subjectivity and image-time. These ideas are clearly visible in the two films Mamma Roma (1962) and La ricotta (1963), combined with his ongoing poetic exploration of the underprivileged.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 3: The City of God

The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) represents Pasolini's first film-world, summarising his poetics and style in the first half of the 1960s, as well as the aesthetic and moral form of his idea of cinema. A film in the form of a sacred magmatic representation, where Marxism, Christianity and humanism give shape to a Gospel devoid of rhetoric, with an anarchic Christ above reason, in a South where the signs of the sacredness of life can still be glimpsed.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 4: Utopias and disillusions

For Pasolini, the second half of the 1960s represented the decline of utopia in a country that the director saw as increasingly doomed to self-destruction. These were years of progressive and melancholic disillusionment: with Uccellacci e uccellini (The Hawks and the Sparrows, 1965), La Terra vista dalla Luna (The Earth Seen from the Moon, 1966) and Che cosa sono le nuvole? (1967), Pasolini explored the form of satirical allegory, while Teorema (1968) was the film that marked Pasolini's conscious intellectual isolation and definitive condemnation of the Italian bourgeoisie.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 5: In search of the lost myth

In the last part of his career, Pasolini confronted one of the strongest cultural roots of his artistic and intellectual journey: Greek myth. First in Oedipus Rex (1969) and then in Medea (1970), Pasolini showed a strength and richness still available to man today, myth being the dark and vital core of lived experience. This theme continued in the three films of the “trilogy of life”, only to be interrupted in his last film, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975).