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.

Giunti Odeon celebrates female cinema, proposing three cult films, one from the past and two from the present, with women as the absolute protagonists. Tenacious and passionate, torn between difficult choices and passionate loves, those told in these two films are the women who stop at nothing and who are not afraid to face the pitfalls of life, without giving up their own identity.

Wes Anderson is one of the masters of contemporary cinema, beloved by audiences all over the world for his unmistakable style and poetics. Giunti Odeon dedicates a tribute to the great American director with a selection of his most famous films, all in original version with Italian subtitles.

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!

Giunti Odeon offers 2 unmissable films dedicated to Dante Alighieri, in restored version. Inferno (1911), produced by Milano Films, the first adaptation of the Dante's Divine Comedy. Long available only in damaged, mutilated or censored copies, Inferno has been restored to its princeps edition, to the correct sequence of shots, to the fullness of its light and colours by a lengthy restoration work carried out by the Cineteca di Bologna. One hundred years later, the spectator finds himself once again enveloped in the horrific and marvellous vision of figurations inspired by Gustave Doré (and other illustrators), but as if revisited by a cruel Méliès: desolation of the moors pierced by open sepulchres, sudden flashes, the petrousness of the gorges, the acuteness of the dry brambles, damned crawling or proceeding decapitated mutilated disembowelled, the bizarre features of mythological creatures, the monstrous metamorphoses. Next is one of the first films made on the life of Dante Alighieri. Released more than a century ago (in 1922) Dante in his life and times was shot entirely in Florence and is one of the longest films (92') in the history of Italian silent cinema. In the film, Dante is at the centre of political plots and the love affair between Segna de' Calligai and Coronella, the latter a nun who is kidnapped from the convent. The abduction triggers a series of reactions in which Guelphs and Ghibellines are the protagonists. After Dante's death in Ravenna, where he had gone to avert war with the Venetians, his son finds, thanks to a night vision, the last part of the Divine Comedy, which had been lost.

At Giunti Odeon a rich selection of films and documentaries on painting, visual arts and comics in the 20th century. This is a selection of very rare titles (with many experimental and artist films) - from the Cineteca di Bologna archive - dedicated to the life and works of Alberto Burri, Umberto Boccioni, Primo Conti, Giorgio De Chirico, Antoni Gaudì, Alberto Grifi, Hugo Pratt, Gino Rossi and many others.

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’.

Ready to take a journey with us into the minds of America’s most ruthless predators — and of those who tried to stop them?
Stefano Nazzi will join us to talk about his book Predatori (Mondadori) in conversation with Edoardo Orlandi!

The Book:

There were years in America when evil seemed to lurk everywhere: in dark parking lots, on the sides of roads, in the most unsuspecting homes. The FBI called it “the epidemic”—the golden age of serial killers—when, between the 1960s and the 1990s, there were nearly two thousand of them. They killed silently, methodically, with imagination, and often with a reassuring face. “We are your children, we are your husbands, we are everywhere,” said Ted Bundy, one of the most infamous. And he was right.

With his vivid, relentless prose, Stefano Nazzi retraces those dark decades, taking us into the minds of some of America’s most terrifying serial killers:

• John Wayne Gacy, who dressed as a clown at children’s parties and buried teenagers under his house.

• Edmund Kemper, the “gentle giant” who discussed Shakespeare with the police and then returned to dismember bodies.

• David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam, who claimed to kill on the orders of a demon-possessed Labrador.

• Dennis Rader, a family man and security technician who signed his crimes BTK—“Bind, Torture, Kill.”

• Aileen Wuornos, who said she killed to defend herself but did it six times, in cold blood.

• And Ted Bundy himself: educated, brilliant, magnetic, “a typical American boy who killed typical American girls.”

Alongside their stories are those of the men and women who hunted, studied, and catalogued them. In the basements of Quantico, two FBI agents—Robert Ressler and John Douglas—began analyzing the profiles of serial murderers and then speaking with them. Together with psychologist Ann Burgess, they visited maximum-security prisons and interviewed thirty-six killers. From those conversations came the science of profiling: the idea that behind the apparent chaos there was a method, and that even the unpredictable could be anticipated. Ressler coined the term “serial killer,”and Douglas outlined the first typologies. They searched for patterns, models, and recurrences. They were the first mindhunters, the hunters of the mind.

This book tells the story of that era.

The Author:

Stefano Nazzi is an Italian journalist, podcaster, and author. He runs the blog Kronaka.it, where he tells contemporary stories, often of true crime. The same theme dominates his successful podcast Indagini for Il Post. In 2011, Laterza published Kronaka. Viaggio nel cuore oscuro del Nord. Mondadori later released Il volto del male (2023), Canti di guerra (2024), and Predatori. I serial killer che hanno segnato l’America (2025).

At Giunti Odeon a selection of American classics from the 1980s! Colourful, crazy, experimental, joyful and dark at the same time: the films of that decade are the kaleidoscope of a renewed and euphoric society, but not without its shadows. Here then are the films of masters such as Robert Zemeckis, David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam, Martin Scorsese and many other cult films to see and see again!

The Australian who reinvented the musical and sentimental genre, conquering Hollywood. Giunti Odeon pays tribute to the visionary, colourful and pop talent of Baz Luhrmann, one of the most original and controversial directors of contemporary cinema, with two of his most famous films.

Hellen Ligios is back from GO to present her latest release, Ci volevamo noi – Claimed (Magazzini Salani), together with our bookseller Sabrina Patanè!

The Book:
JACKSON HAS LEARNED TO LET HIS GUARD DOWN.
LIZ HAS LEARNED TO FIGHT.
ONLY LOVE CAN DECIDE WHETHER THIS IS A NEW BEGINNING—OR TRULY THE END.

Jackson never believed he deserved a future, but when he finally admitted to himself that Liz had always been his light in the darkness, something inside him changed. Now that the past comes knocking harder than ever, and the present is tainted by threats and betrayals, Jax is ready to risk his life to protect her.

Liz, however, is no longer the girl who needs saving. She still carries the wounds Jax left behind, but day by day she is finding the strength to move forward. Trusting him again is a dangerous gamble—especially when love becomes entangled with secrets, dangers, and enemies bent on revenge.

In a game where everything can shatter, one thing is certain: happy endings are never simple. They must be fought for. Even at the cost of losing everything.

The Author:
Hellen Ligios is an Italian author writing under a pseudonym. Born and raised in Rome, she studied Oriental Languages with a specialization in Japanese and lived in Tokyo for two years. A passionate reader since childhood, she loves creating worlds to escape into. She made her debut on Wattpad, where her stories quickly gained a devoted following. With Magazzini Salani she has already published Ci volevamo noi. Chained and Ci volevamo noi. Cursed.

At Giunti Odeon the traditional Sunday appointment with 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!

Claudia Zanella and Christian Brogna, in conversation with Ginevra Barbetti, present Awake. Il magnifico viaggio nella mente umana di un neurochirurgo che opera i suoi pazienti da svegli. (Rizzoli)

The Book

A work that blends scientific insight with narrative tension, Awake weaves together many stories — including that of the surgeon himself, who, a few years ago, fell into a coma after contracting meningitis and personally experienced what happens to the mind in the limbo between life and death.

Rome, October 10, 2022.
In an operating room, a man presses his lips to his saxophone and his fingers to the keys, playing the notes of Love Story, while another man removes from his brain a tumor that everyone, until that moment, had deemed inoperable.
The surgeon is Christian Brogna. With his team, he has for years practiced “awake surgery,” a technique in which the patient remains awake, conscious, and able to interact — allowing the surgeon, through the patient’s responses, to map with millimetric precision the countless neural connections and minimize the risk of damaging them, thus preserving the cognitive, emotional, and relational functions that define each of us.

The operation on the saxophonist resonated around the world, but it was only one step in a long and complex journey — a path marked by study, discovery, decisive encounters, intuition, travel, and love.
In Awake, written in collaboration with author Claudia Zanella, we find it all: the sincere, moving, and deeply human story of a doctor who has always put his patients before everything else.

The Authors

CHRISTIAN BROGNA (Rome, 1980) is a neurosurgeon and the author of numerous scientific publications in international journals. He conducts research projects on innovative technologies and therapies for the treatment of brain tumors. After many years abroad, he has recently returned to Italy.
In 2024, he received a prestigious award from the Italian Medical Association for excellence in medicine and his remarkable contribution to patient care. He currently practices in Rome, supported by a team of internationally trained specialists.

CLAUDIA ZANELLA, born in Florence in 1979, lives in Rome. After earning a degree in Arts and Philosophy and a diploma from the National Film School, she began working as an actress. She has been directed by, among others, Luca Guadagnino and Gabriele Salvatores. She has written articles for various magazines and published Tu e nessun’altra(2015) and Meglio un giorno da vegana (2017).

AutografiaGOgò gets even more exciting!
We’re thrilled to announce that Charlotte Rose will be joining us to sign copies of her brand-new release, Prohibited (Sperling & Kupfer) — already available for preorder in our store!

Useful information:

Here’s how the book signing will work:

• Priority passes are available to those who preorder the book from us (in-store only) or purchase it (in-store only) from the release date up to the day of the event. Passes will be distributed in time slots, and on the day of the signing, each slot will be called over the microphone as the line moves along.

• Those in the priority line must show their pass (with the correct time slot) to the staff member in charge of access control.

• Once the priority line has finished, all other attendees who did not purchase the book from us (and therefore do not have a pass) will be able to join the signing.

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.

New event on stage: Lo stalking. Analisi criminologica, aspetti normativi, strategie di prevenzione e contrasto  (Edizioni Del Faro) by Armando Ago.

In addition to the author, the event will feature Dr. Maria Cristina Papa (Senior Police Chief, Head of the Anti-Crime Division of the Florence Police Headquarters), lawyer Annalisa Gordigiani, and psychologist Elisa Bongini, head of the men’s violence unit at Artemisia.

Drawing on his professional experience and in-depth criminological and legal research, the author offers a comprehensive analysis of the roots of stalking — from traditional forms to cyberstalking and its most recent developments. The book also examines the Italian and international legal and jurisprudential frameworks, highlighting prevention strategies and concrete legal and operational tools to protect victims and counter perpetrators.

This presentation offers a valuable opportunity to reflect on one of the most disturbing and pressing phenomena in our society.

The author:
Armando Ago, Lieutenant Colonel of the Carabinieri and instructor of Investigative Techniques at the Carabinieri Non-Commissioned Officers School in Florence, is the author of Lo stalking. Analisi criminologica, aspetti normativi, strategie di prevenzione e contrasto, published in April 2025 by Edizioni del Faro (Trento).

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).