US cinema greats Bill Murray, John Travolta, and Ethan Coen lead the stars descending on Rome for this year’s Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday in the Italian capital, reports BSS.
From gangsters to butlers, zombies and a private detective, the movie fest’s boasts nearly 40 films in its official selection as well as talks with a host of A-listers and a special focus on music.
Award-winning director Edward Norton will open the festival with “Motherless Brooklyn”, a noir murder mystery featuring a private investigator with Tourette’s syndrome — played by Norton — and starring Bruce Willis as his mentor.
Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman”, dubbed an “epic saga of organized crime in post-war America”, will then take center stage, landing in Rome after its world premiere at the New York Film Festival.
The Oscar hopeful, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, reunites Scorsese — who has been nominated for the best director Oscar eight times, more than any other living director — with his “Gangs of New York” screenwriter Steve Zaillian.
Fans of Downton Abbey, the smash-hit British period drama about the lives of an aristocratic family and their domestic servants, are in for a royal treat with the stand-alone movie in which King George V comes to stay.
Horror aficionados can brave “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” by Norwegian director Andre Ovredal, a Halloween gore-fest of evil scarecrows and severed toes produced by Oscar-winning master of all things terrifying, Guillermo Del Toro.
