An Italian film has the honor of inaugurating the premieres on the program on Monday, October 22^nd in the PREMIERE section, at 7:30pm in the Sala Santa Cecilia: Giorni e nuvole – Days and Clouds by Silvio Soldini, a love story, and a tale of job insecurity as well, starring Margherita Buy, Antonio Albanese, and Giuseppe Battiston. Noise by Henry Bean follows at 10:30, starring a superb Tim Robbins eccentrically crusading against noise pollution in New York City.

The CINEMA 2007 screenings kick off at 7pm with a film by master filmmaker Sidney Lumet, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, shown out of competition: a family drama dressed in noir, with an A-list cast featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, and Marisa Tomei. Following at 10pm, Mongol by Russian director Sergei Bodrov (The Prisoner of the Mountains).

Two films for the youngest filmgoers are on the morning program in the ALICE NELLA CITTA’ section: Canvas by Joseph Greco and La Tete de maman – In Mom’s Head by Carine Tardieu, both scheduled for 10:30, the former in the Sala Sinopoli and the latter in the Salacinema IKEA. In the same section, On dirait que – Let’s Say, by Francoise Marie, is showing at 5pm in the Salacinema IKEA.

It is the EXTRA/Other Visions screenings that will start the day on Monday and cap it off: the appointment is at 9am in Teatro Studio, with the Italian documentary by Saverio Costanzo, Auschwitz 2006. At 8pm Teatro Studio once more hosts an EXTRA screening, Manda Bala – Send a Bullet, by Jason Kohn. On the program in the Sala Petrassi, starting at 9pm, is the short La Cravate by Alejandro Jodorowsky, followed by Niente è come sembra – Nothing Is As It Seems by Franco Battiato. Wrapping up the Monday program for EXTRA is La sombra del iceberg – The Shadow of the Iceberg by Raul M. Riebenbauer and Hugo Doménech, in Teatro Studio at 10:30pm.

The Casa del Cinema-Deluxe is hosting the Monday screenings for the EXTRA/Sophia Loren section: at 6pm, Madame Sans-Gêne by Christian Jaque, and at 9pm, Boccaccio ’70 by Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, and Luchino Visconti.

First on the lineup for Monday is a film in the EXTRA/Actors Studio section, in Studio 3 at 9am: The Graduate by Mike Nichols, followed at 11:30am by Coming Apart by Milton Moses Ginsberg.

Monday’s Tribute in the EXTRA section is dedicated to Marco Ferreri, with two screenings on the program in the Sala Petrassi: at 4pm L’Udienza by Ferreri himself, and at 6:30pm the documentary by Mario Canale, Marco Ferreri, il regista che venne dal futuro.

Last but not least, the Farnese Persol has three screenings on the program on Monday in the NEW CINEMA NETWORK section: Pura Sangre by Leo Ricciardi at 5pm, Was am Ende zählt – Nothing Else Matters by Julia von Heinz at 8pm, and lastly, Ex Drummer by Koen Mortier.