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A journey through fascinating facts for film history enthusiasts, in the order in which they were discovered.<\/p>\n
The Excelsior Palace Hotel<\/a><\/strong> in Rapallo was the set for some of the first external film shoots with Battesimo di Nave (1914), played and directed by Giano Paolo Rosmino, a historic name in Italian cinema. For the now virtually lost film Vita Futurista, the brainchild of Marinetti, the father of Futurism, and the painter Balla, amongst others, Arnoldo Ginna chose Caff\u00e8 Ristorante La Loggia<\/a><\/strong> in Florence, in the summer of 1916, as the set for the scene in which the old gentleman is abruptly addressed by the young Futurists, symbolising the contrast between a rearward-looking world and their dynamic new culture. In Sergio Leone\u2019s Once Upon a Time in America (1984), the solitary and exquisitely tender dance scene with De Niro and McGovern in the luxury restaurant with all the tables laid was actually shot at the Excelsior in Venice<\/strong>. The battle scenes in Visconti\u2019s Senso (1954) were filmed around the Antica Locanda Mincio<\/strong><\/a> in Valeggio. Hitchcock created some shots for his To Catch a Thief (1955) at the Hotel Bristol Palace<\/strong><\/a> in Genoa, and a scene in Mario Monicelli\u2019s The Organizer (1963), with Marcello Mastroianni and Annie Girardot, was played out at Pasticceria Arione<\/a><\/strong> in Cuneo. Caff\u00e8 Meletti<\/strong><\/a> in Ascoli Piceno formed the backdrop for scenes in Francesco Maselli\u2019s I Delfini (1960), with Claudia Cardinale and for Alfredo, Alfredo by Pietro Germi (1972), with Dustin Hoffman; Caff\u00e8 Fiorio<\/strong> in Turin features in Mario Soldati\u2019s “Piccolo mondo antico” (1941) and in Davide Ferrario\u2019s “Tutti gi\u00f9 per terra” (1997); and Caff\u00e8 Mulassano<\/a><\/strong> in Turin was the setting for a scene in Addio Giovinezza (1940) and Dario Argento\u2019s Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971). The Bicerin<\/strong><\/a> in Turin appears in the TV drama Amore e Ginnastica (1973) by Luigi Filippo D\u2019Amico, taken from the writings of Edmondo De Amicis. [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A journey through fascinating facts for film history enthusiasts, presented in the order in which they were discovered. Some of the earliest outdoor film shots were shot at the Excelsior Palace Hotel in Rapallo for the film “Battesimo di nave” (1914), starring and directed by Gian Paolo Rosmino, a historic figure in Italian cinema. At the Caff\u00e8 Ristorante La Loggia in Florence, in the summer of 1916, Arnoldo Ginna set the scene of the elderly gentleman being accosted by young Futurists (to symbolize the contrast between the traditionalist world and the dynamism of the new culture) in the now-untraceable film \u201cVita futurista,\u201d conceived, among others, by the father of Futurism, Marinetti, and the painter Balla… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[945],"tags":[306,404,307,479,389,482,483,371,366,345,506,418,365,317,425,335,320,349,496,358,686],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-record-breakers","tag-caffe-costanti","tag-caffe-gambrinus","tag-caffe-meletti","tag-caffe-pasticceria-bicerin","tag-caffe-pasticceria-cucchi","tag-caffe-pasticceria-fiorio","tag-caffe-pasticceria-mulassano","tag-confetteria-romanengo-pietro-fu-stefano","tag-hotel-bristol-palace","tag-hotel-de-la-poste","tag-hotel-excelsior-lido","tag-hotel-excelsior-palace","tag-hotel-grand-hotel-gardone","tag-hotel-majestic","tag-hotel-royal-victoria","tag-hotel-villa-deste","tag-panificio-pasticceriapaolo-atti-figli","tag-pasticceria-arione","tag-ristorante-antica-locanda-mincio","tag-ristorante-la-loggia","tag-ristoranteo-vittorio-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localistorici.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localistorici.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localistorici.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localistorici.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localistorici.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/localistorici.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26593,"href":"https:\/\/localistorici.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/26593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localistorici.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localistorici.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localistorici.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Silvio Soldini set a scene in Agata and the Storm (2004) at the \u00d6 Vittorio<\/a><\/strong> restaurant in Recco. At Caff\u00e8 dei Costanti <\/a><\/strong>in Arezzo, Roberto Benigni shot the scene of the boy who reads the words \u201cAccess forbidden to dogs and Jews\u201d in the Oscar-winning Life is Beautiful (1997); Martin Scorsese filmed scenes from *The Departed* (2006), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson, at the Barbetta Restaurant<\/strong> in New York. In 1925 Alfred Hitchcock set the brief honeymoon scene of his first feature film, The Pleasure Garden, with Virginia Valli and Miles Mander, in the splendid gardens of the Grand Hotel Villa d\u2019Este<\/a><\/strong> in Cernobbio. And it was here that Carlo Lizzani\u2019s Mussolini. The Last Four Days was shot with Rod Steiger and Henry Fonda in the winter of 1974, when the hotel was closed, to ensure the privacy of its guests. The hotel gardens were also used as a setting for the soap opera Beautiful. Making an exception before the opening, Villa d\u2019Este<\/a><\/strong> opened its doors on 29 February 2008 to the troupe of the film The Other Man with Richard Eyre, Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, and Laura Linney. In 1957 Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones, the lead characters in A Farewell to Arms, based on Hemingway\u2019s novel,stayed at the Hotel de La Poste<\/a><\/strong> in Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo, and the director, Charles Vidor, shot a scene from the film here. The Caff\u00e8 Reggio<\/a><\/strong> in New York was the set for John Huston\u2019s The Kremlin Letter in 1969, with Patrick O\u2019Neal and Bibi Andersson and for Next Stop, Greenwich Village of 1975, directed by Paul Mazursky, with Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters and Christopher Walken; in the 2013 film Inside Llewyn Davis, by Ethan and Joel Coen, which paints a splendid portrait of Greenwich Village in theyears when it was the cradle of folk music, Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), the protagonist, explicitly mentions the establishment: \u201cSee you at the Reggio\u201d \u2013 which was one of the cultural landmarks at the time \u2013 and here, at a table, he is subjected to a tragicomic outburst from Jean Berkey (Carey Mulligan). Barbetta Restaurant<\/strong> in New York was the setting for Mervyn LeRoy\u2019s 1959 film “The FBI Story”, starring James Stewart and Vera Miles; Woody Allen\u2019s 1990 film “Alice”, starring Mia Farrow, William Hurt and Alec Baldwin; the television series “Sex and the City”, which ran from 1998 to 2004, created by Darren Star and starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis; and “The Departed” (2006), directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson.
In 2012, a scene for Pupi Avati\u2019s television drama Un matrimonio, with Christian De Sica and Andrea Roncato, was shot at the Pasticceria Paolo Atti<\/a> in Bologna<\/strong>. The opening shot of Pier Paolo Pasolini\u2019s 1975 Sal\u00f2, or the 120 Days of Sodom contains a view of the Grand Hotel Gardone<\/strong>. And some scenes of The Yes Man of 1991, with Nanni Moretti and Silvio Orlando, were shot by the director Daniele Lucchetti also at the Grand Hotel Gardone<\/a><\/strong>. Some scenes in Hanno rubato un tram, of 1954, starring and directed by Aldo Fabrizi, with Carlo Campanini, and stunning photography by Mario Bava, were shot on the first floor of the Hotel Baglioni, now the Grand Hotel Majestic<\/a><\/strong>, in Bologna. A theatre anecdote: the unforgettable Gilberto Govi, life and soul of Genoese theatre, mentioned the Confetteria Romanengo<\/a><\/strong> in Genoa in every performance in Genoa of the comedy Maneggi per maritare una figlia: he would come on stage with a little package wrapped in sugar paper and, dangling it on a string like a bow, he would joyfully repeat a gluttonous \u201cRomanengo zuccari!\u201d causing great hilarity among the audience. Gabriele Salvatores shot \u201cHappy Family\u201d in 2009, choosing the Pasticceria Cucchi<\/a><\/strong> in Milan for a scene in which Fabio De Luigi purchases a delicacy for the girl he cares for, and says \u201cthis is the best zuccotto in the world\u201d. The Royal Victoria Hotel<\/a><\/strong> in Pisa has been the set for many films and even more episodes of TV drama: of particular note the movies “L’amore ritrovato” by Marco Mazzacurati, “La fanciulla del lago” by Paolo Benvenuti, “Che resti tra noi” by Cristina Comencini and “Niente di serio” directed by Laszlo Barbo were filmed here. Also set at the Royal Victoria Hotel<\/a><\/strong> is the second season of the successful series “L’amica geniale”, and many theatre plays took place in various rooms of the hotel. Scripts and screenplay for the television series \u201cI bastardi diPizzofalcone\u201d directed by Carlo Carlei, first took shape at a table at the Gran Caff\u00e8 Gambrinus<\/a><\/strong> in Naples. And \u2013 who\u2019d have thought it! \u2013 Maurizio de Giovanni, who wrote the stories, made his artistic debut at the Gambrinus<\/strong>, where he won the first Porsche 911 Creative Writing Contest. <\/p>\n