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!

Three masterpieces of Italian silent films (at Giunti Odeon in splendid new restored versions with original musical accompaniment) to discover the fascination of "diva-film". Three films inhabited by formidable women and actresses, who a century ago became absolute protagonists of the culture of the image. Ma l'amore mio non muore (1913), Lyda Borelli's first film and the origin of the diva-film: a plunge into the imagination, culture and Italian Art Nouveau fashion. Sangue Blue (1914): Francesca Bertini achieves diva status in a sumptuous marital and maternal melodrama. Assunta Spina (1915), 'the' film of Bertini, also director: her greatest success, her most passionate role, the progenitor of cinematic realism.

An extraordinary journey through the myths, masterpieces and legends of Hollywood cinema. From Keaton to Kubrick, from Welles to Coppola and Scorsese, at Giunti Odeon a series of documentaries, rich in footage and testimonials, on a century and more of American cinema: a compelling account of the greatest and most dazzling industry of dreams.

The splendid "European Fairy Tales" series of animated films made in the 1970s and based on folklore tales and stories from various European nations, from Italy to France, from Belgium to Hungary, from Switzerland to England. The shorts in rotation take their cue from Carnival: fifteen short animated films resulting from international co-productions, each of which tells a fairy tale belonging to the folk tradition of a European country.

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).

An actor (and director) of incredible artistic talent, Paul Newman was one of the most admired performers in the history of American cinema, having brought unforgettable characters to life, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. Giunti Odeon pays tribute to the great actor with three of his most important films, authentic masterpieces directed by as many great directors.

At Giunti Odeon, three great classics of American cinema from the 1970s will immerse you once again in the psychedelic and futuristic atmospheres of a decade that forever marked the imagination of cinema, music, visual culture and fashion.

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.

Beauty and the star-system, talent and fragility, the lights of the cinema and the shadows of life: Giunti Odeon pays tribute to one of the most extraordinary divas in the history of cinema, Marilyn Monroe, with three of her most famous and iconic films, authentic masterpieces directed by as many great directors. 

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!

The writer Andrew Miller will be at Giunti Odeon to present his latest novel La terra d'inverno (NN Editore), together with Luca Starita.

The Book

England, early 1960s. During the coldest winter of the century, Eric, a country doctor proud of his humble origins, lives a seemingly peaceful life alongside his beautiful and devoted wife, Irene. The couple is expecting their first child, but beneath the surface lies a growing rift: Eric has been having an affair with a married woman, whose presence awakens in him a longing to escape.

Hurt by her husband’s emotional distance, Irene finds solace in her friendship with Rita, a young pregnant woman who has recently moved with her husband Bill from London to a nearby farm. Yet even this new couple is restless: Bill struggles to adapt to rural life, while Rita tries to leave behind a past that continues to haunt her.

As the relentless snow isolates roads and homes, a fatal mistake by Eric shatters the fragile equilibrium, forcing each of them to confront their disappointed hopes.

With the insight of a master storyteller, Andrew Miller portrays a small community of people caught in a moment of historical change—when the weight of the past collides with the promise of freedom—and reveals their dreams and disillusionments, their ghosts and fears.

The Author

Andrew Miller is a British novelist who lives in Somerset. His works have received numerous awards: Ingenious Pain (Bompiani, 1999) won, among others, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for foreign literature. The Land in Winter was awarded the Walter Scott Prize and shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. NN Editore will also publish Oxygen.

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 journalist Gianmaria Frati, 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).