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.
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.
Following the success of L'acqua del lago non è mai dolce, Giulia Caminito returns to bookstores with Il male che non c'è (Bompiani), and we at GO are thrilled to welcome her on stage alongside Agnese Pini and Roberta Mazzanti. With readings by Michele Ragno.
About the Book:
In life, we sometimes find the world divided between those who act fearlessly and those of us who are haunted by a hidden pain beneath the surface. For Loris, it all began in childhood summers spent in the magical vegetable garden of his grandfather Tempesta, near the ruins of ancient Galeria. With his grandfather, his obsessive need to read away his worries would vanish as he learned wonderful things, like how to build an aviary and care for pigeons—loyal and iridescent. Now thirty, Loris has made a career out of reading, lives in the city, and has a girlfriend nicknamed Jo. But his job at a publishing house is precarious, and the pressure of adulthood weighs heavily on him, nearly consuming him. Loris retreats inward, at first to protect himself, and then to understand the warning signs his body is sending. A deep malaise grips him, one capable of extinguishing any remaining hope. As doctors, his girlfriend, and family grow more distant, Loris is left with only two allies: social media, which feeds his inner ghosts, and Catastrophe, a shapeshifting creature—cat, wolf, friend, bride—who stands by him in his darkest hours. Once again, Giulia Caminito uses the novel to portray herself and her generation, one that hasn’t experienced wars or material deprivations, yet has been marked by the isolation of the internet and insecurity. Her spare, vivid prose here opens to an unexpectedly dreamlike atmosphere, making hypochondria a memorable protagonist—the seductive, mocking Catastrophe—while bringing to life a contemporary “dark wood,” where our most painful experiences take shape amidst the urban landscape.
About the Author:
Giulia Caminito is an Italian author. With a degree in Political Philosophy, she decided to pursue a career in writing. Her father is from Asmara, her grandparents met in Assab, and her great-grandmother was a truck driver, liquor smuggler, and a lively figure in the Italian communities of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Her debut novel, La Grande A, dedicated to her great-grandmother's adventurous life, won several awards, including the Bagutta Opera Prima, the Berto, and the Brancati Giovani. She also authored her first children’s book, La ballerina e il marinaio (Orecchio Acerbo, 2018). Her 2019 novel, Un giorno verrà, published by Bompiani, received the XXVIII Premio Fiesole Narrativa Under 40. In 2021, she won the prestigious Premio Campiello with L'acqua del lago non è mai dolce (Bompiani, 2021). In 2024, Bompiani published her latest work, Il male che non c'è.
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!
In 1923, Walt and Roy Disney began an adventure that would change the history of cinema forever. Since then, the films made by Disney have enchanted several generations, amazing us each time with their timeless and ageless stories. Today, a century later, Giunti Odeon continues to celebrate this great dream factory by proposing a selection of great Disney classics, with the most famous films, suitable for young and old, to be enjoyed all together and continue to dream...
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).
Gabriele Galasso's digital photography course is aimed at anyone interested in photography, both from a technical perspective and a linguistic one, who is taking their first steps with digital photography.
The goal of the course is to provide participants with all the knowledge needed to shoot in manual mode independently, immediately putting into practice photographic techniques through exercises that stimulate creativity, both day and night.
Through viewing images by past and contemporary photographers, the course analyzes the potential of photographic language. A camera capable of shooting in manual mode is required.
The subscription fee is €120 (€60 for under 25s) and can be purchased at the GO box office. Enrollment is limited.
The History of Photography and Basic Digital Techniques
After a brief introductory presentation, we will take a short historical excursion to understand digital photographic language and how digital cameras function.
Gabriele Galasso was born in 1995 in Umbria. He graduated in Cinema from the DAMS program at Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna. Following his passion for art, he realized that his artistic expression occurs through photography. He enrolled in a two-year photography course at Spazio Labo' and, upon completing his training, initially joined the team as an assistant for courses and masterclasses, later becoming an instructor for digital and analog photography courses.
His photographic interest is particularly directed towards personal artistic research while undertaking commissioned work for brands, companies, and events. Additionally, he designs educational programs aimed at children, using tools to raise awareness of photographic language through practical and experiential workshops and basic photography concepts.
He currently lives and works in Florence, collaborating with various organizations.
Corpo, umano (Einaudi). This is what Vittorio Lingiardi will discuss in a captivating lecture on the stage of Giunti Odeon! Following his presentation, the author will also introduce a screening of Habla con ella (in Spanish with subtitles) by Pedro Almodóvar, scheduled for 9:00 PM.
The Book:
Like a medical examination, a science fiction film, or an afternoon of love, this is a journey into the body. Of all the books on this theme, it’s the only one marked by a comma: Corpo, umano. The comma signals a pause—a breath, a moment of thought—during which readers can search for their own body. Today, our bodies are in the spotlight yet often neglected: medicine breaks them down into isolated parts, online life removes them from physical connection, and politics turns them into tools. With sensitivity, Vittorio Lingiardi brings the body back to center stage, guiding us organ by organ—from liver to brain, eyes to heart—through the lenses of science, myth, art, and literature. He achieves the feat of restoring the body to us whole: "electric," as Whitman might say, "alive," as Winnicott might put it, inseparable from the psyche.
This autobiographical, psychoanalytic, medical, and imaginative book is structured into three sections—the remembered body, the detailed body, and the rediscovered body. It takes readers on an adventurous journey within, celebrating the body’s physicality while embracing its poetic nature. Blood and cells, symbols and memories. With scientific explanations, artistic images, and literary words, Vittorio Lingiardi narrates the life of the body as “our I, but also our first you.” In his clinical practice and the work of caregiving, he has listened to many bodies. The search for connection, the turmoil of adolescence, the experience of illness, the awakening of desire, the transformations of gender. But also the symptoms and silences: the cut on the arm that dulls mental pain; the sharp bones of anorexia; the inflated muscles of muscle dysmorphia; the distorted gaze seeing flaws where there are none; the panic simulating a heart attack. Our body follows and accompanies us, able to console or become an adversary. It is an alchemical laboratory capable of endless manifestations: anatomical, pathophysiological, social, political, religious, aesthetic, naked, clothed, dancing, energetic, tired. Body, Human is an evocation, an idiosyncratic and enchanting reconstruction. Page by page, organ by organ, it brings to light the awareness that, even when it risks disappearing, the only way to rediscover the body is to tell its story.
The Author:
Vittorio Lingiardi (Milan, 1960) is an Italian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, professor of dynamic psychology at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome. From 1985 to 1998, he carried out clinical and research work at the Institute of Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Milan and the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. In 1987-88, and again in 1995, he pursued studies and training in the United States and Canada at the Menninger Clinic (Topeka, Kansas), the Chestnut Lodge Clinic (Rockville, Maryland), and McGill University (Montreal, Canada). His books include Citizen Gay: Affections and Rights (il Saggiatore, 2016), Mindscapes: Psyche in the Landscape(Raffaello Cortina, 2017), Diagnosis and Destiny (Einaudi, 2018), I, You, We: Living with Oneself, the Other, Others(DeA Planeta, 2019), Archipelago N (Einaudi, 2021), and Body, Human (Einaudi, 2024). He has also published poetry collections, including Precision in Love’s Confusion (nottetempo, 2012) and Alterations of Rhythm (nottetempo, 2015).
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.
The Kaleidoscope of the young Kubrick
It is impossible to understand the birth and evolution of the cinema of a great director-author like Kubrick without an overview of the workings of the Hollywood industry and the American Studio-System. After this ‘contextualisation’, we move on to an analysis of the young Kubrick's post-war activity as a photojournalist, a passage that marks him out for his research into the possibilities of the medium and his confrontation with reality, but above all for the expressive form of ambiguity, as a questioning of the principles of classical Hollywood cinema. It was following this track that he began his career as a director, first with a few short films and then with his debut film, Fear and Desire (1953).
Registration for the atelier (nominal and valid for all five 90' encounters) can be done at the bookshop's cash desk (every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.), at a cost of 100 euros (50 euros for those under 25).
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.
Giunti Odeon celebrates women's cinema, proposing three cult films, from the present, with women as absolute protagonists. Tenacious and passionate, torn between difficult choices and passionate loves, those told in these three 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.
In 1923, Walt and Roy Disney began an adventure that would change the history of cinema forever. Since then, the films made by Disney have enchanted several generations, amazing us each time with their timeless and ageless stories. Today, a century later, Giunti Odeon continues to celebrate this great dream factory by proposing a selection of great Disney classics, with the most famous films, suitable for young and old, to be enjoyed all together and continue to dream...
Gabriele Galasso's digital photography course is aimed at people who are interested in photography, both from a technical and a creative language perspective, and who are taking their first steps with digital photography.
The purpose of the course is to provide participants with all the knowledge they need to shoot in manual mode independently, immediately applying shooting techniques through photographic exercises that stimulate their creativity both day and night.
By viewing images from past and contemporary photographers, the course analyzes the potential of photographic language. A camera capable of shooting in manual mode is required.
The subscription fee (€120, €60 for those under 25) can be purchased at the GO box office. Enrollment is limited.
PROGRAM: 2° lesson
Photographic Exposure
ISO sensitivity, shutter speed, and aperture: studying light and the parameters for shooting in manual mode, while analyzing images from past and contemporary photographers.
Gabriele Galasso
Gabriele Galasso was born in 1995 in Umbria. He graduated in Cinema from the DAMS program at Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna. Following his passion for art, he discovered that his artistic expression comes through photography. He enrolled in a two-year photography course at Spazio Labo' and, upon completing his training, initially joined the team as an assistant for courses and masterclasses, later becoming an instructor for both digital and analog photography courses.
His photographic interests are particularly focused on personal artistic research, while he also undertakes commissioned work for brands, companies, and events. He also designs educational programs for children, providing tools to raise awareness of photographic language through practical and experiential workshops and basic photography concepts.
He currently lives and works in Florence, collaborating with various organizations.
Encounter 2 - The confrontation with genres
After his debut film, Kubrick confronted one of the most important elements of American cinema, the genre system. Thanks to his desire to be independent, Kubrick made The Killer's Kiss (1955), halfway between noir and gangster-movie, in which he experimented with the symbolic use of images and the subjectivity of narration. He continued with Armed Robbery (1956), another ‘genre film’, but constructed through the fragmentation of the narrative. In the subsequent war-movie Paths of Glory Kubrick subverted the epic-militarist rhetoric of the genre, in which it is space that determines the action (and not vice versa), until the historical film Spartacus (1960), in which he accentuated the linguistic elements of modernity.
Gabriele Galasso's digital photography course is aimed at all those interested in photography, both from a technical and creative language perspective, who are taking their first steps with digital photography.
The goal of the course is to provide participants with all the knowledge necessary to shoot in manual mode independently, immediately putting shooting techniques into practice through photographic exercises, stimulating creativity both during the day and at night.
By viewing images from past and contemporary photographers, the course analyzes the potential of photographic language. A camera capable of shooting in manual mode is required.
The subscription fee (€120, €60 for those under 25) can be purchased at the GO box office. Enrollment is limited.
PROGRAM: 3° lesson
Evening Practical Session
During the evening outing, the theoretical concepts will be put into practice through photographic exercises, capturing the city during the day with natural light.
Gabriele Galasso
Gabriele Galasso was born in 1995 in Umbria. He graduated in Cinema from the DAMS program at Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna. Following his passion for art, he discovered that his artistic expression comes through photography. He enrolled in a two-year photography course at Spazio Labo’, and after completing his studies, he initially joined the team as an assistant in courses and masterclasses, later becoming a teacher of both digital and analog photography.
His photographic interests focus particularly on personal artistic research, while he also undertakes commissioned work for brands, companies, and events. He also designs educational programs aimed at children, providing tools to raise awareness of photographic language through practical and experiential workshops and basic photography concepts.
He currently lives and works in Florence, collaborating with various organizations.
Encounter 3 - Figures of Modernity
From the beginning of the 1960s Kubrick accentuated the modernity of his cinema, thanks also to a new idea of the character. An example of this is the protagonist of Lolita (1962), a figure of a mysterious and ambiguous maiden, but this is also the first film in which Kubrick reflects on the potential of the gaze. The director amplified this dimension in Dr. Strangelove (1964), a biting satire on the atomic destruction of the world, up to the absolute masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1969), a world-film that invented a new type of gaze, the cognitive gaze, and a new way of making cinema.
Gabriele Galasso's Digital Photography Course is aimed at all those who are interested in photography, both from a technical point of view and from a language perspective, and who are taking their first steps with digital photography.
The goal of the course is to provide participants with all the knowledge needed to shoot in manual mode independently, immediately putting into practice, through photographic exercises, the shooting techniques while stimulating their creativity both during the day and at night.
Through the viewing of images from past and contemporary photographers, the potential of photographic language is analyzed. A camera capable of manual shooting is required.
The subscription (120€ and 60€ for those under 25) can be purchased at the GO ticket office. Registration is limited.
PROGRAM FOR THE 4th LESSON
Daytime Practical Session
During the daytime outing, theoretical concepts will be put into practice through photographic exercises, shooting the city at night with artificial light.
Gabriele Galasso
Gabriele Galasso was born in 1995 in Umbria. He graduated in Cinema Studies at DAMS at Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna, and following his passion for art, he realized that his artistic expression comes through photography. He enrolled in a two-year photography course at Spazio Labo', and at the end of the program, he joined the team initially as an assistant for courses and masterclasses and later as an instructor for digital and analog photography courses. His photographic interest is particularly focused on personal artistic research, while he also works on commissioned projects for brands, companies, and events.
In addition, he designs educational programs aimed at young children, creating tools to raise awareness of photographic language through practical and experiential workshops and basic photography concepts for children and teenagers.
He currently lives and works in Florence, collaborating with various organizations.
Gabriele Galasso's Digital Photography Course is aimed at all those who are interested in photography, both from a technical perspective and from a language perspective, and who are taking their first steps with digital photography.
The goal of the course is to provide participants with all the knowledge needed to shoot in manual mode independently, immediately putting into practice, through photographic exercises, the shooting techniques while stimulating their creativity both during the day and at night.
Through the viewing of images from past and contemporary photographers, the potential of photographic language is analyzed. A camera capable of manual shooting is required.
The subscription (120€ and 60€ for those under 25) can be purchased at the GO ticket office. Registration is limited.
PROGRAM FOR THE 5th LESSON
Image Review
During the final lesson, the images taken during the outings will be reviewed.
Gabriele Galasso
Gabriele Galasso was born in 1995 in Umbria. He graduated in Cinema Studies at DAMS at Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna, and following his passion for art, he realized that his artistic expression comes through photography. He enrolled in a two-year photography course at Spazio Labo', and at the end of the program, he joined the team initially as an assistant for courses and masterclasses and later as an instructor for digital and analog photography courses. His photographic interest is particularly focused on personal artistic research, while he also works on commissioned projects for brands, companies, and events.
In addition, he designs educational programs aimed at young children, creating tools to raise awareness of photographic language through practical and experiential workshops and basic photography concepts for children and teenagers.
He currently lives and works in Florence, collaborating with various organizations.
Meeting 5: Eyes Open Closed
The modern character of Kubrick's cinema can also be found, renewed, in his last films: The Shining (1981), a variation on horror consisting of spatial and temporal labyrinths, in which it is the architecture (of the mind) that shapes the narrative; Full Metal Jacket (1987) in which war is shown as an abstract and symbolic space-time; Eyes Wide Shut (1999), an extraordinary parable on the deceptive seductions of the 20th century and a film-heading on cinema as ‘grand illusion’.
Encounter 4 - The cinema beyond cinema
From the never realised project on Napoleon to A Clockwork Orange (1971), Kubrick pushes the absolute ambiguity of images: the initial sense is turned upside down, also thanks to the manipulation of time. The expressive use of the zoom lens is the key to this style, as seen in Barry Lyndon (1975), a total film, which through the symbolic complexity of its framing and editing exhibits links with literature, theatre, painting, music, and in which meaning is emptied in favour of the visible.
Odeon, the history of cinema in Florence
All the most beautiful films, the most illustrious guests, and the most important events have had the grand hall of the historic center as their stage. Discover its history.
A century of cinema and culture
From 1922 to the present, the history of Florence's Odeon cinema in a book full of pictures, documents, stories and curiosities.
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