Touching down on the red carpet on Tuesday, October 23rd, one of the brightest stars in the Hollywood firmament, Tom Cruise, accompanying another all-time classic star, Robert Redford, who directs and acts in Lions for Lambs, out of competition in the CINEMA 2007 section. The film tells the stories of a number of individuals all involved, in different ways, in the war on terror launched by the United States after 9/11 (the cast also features Meryl Streep).

 ‘La Notte d’Argento,’ a marathon devoted to filmmaker Dario Argento, consists of a very special PREMIERE on the program at the Salacinema LOTTO: it kicks off with the re-releases of Suspiria and Inferno, at 8:30pm and 10:10pm respectively, and winds up at the stroke of midnight, the witching hour, with La terza madre – Mother of Tears, the premiere of the last chapter in the trilogy. Another evening premiere in the PREMIERE section, at the Sala Santa Cecilia at 10:30pm, is The Dukes by Robert Davi, starring Chazz Palminteri along with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich.

On the program at 4pm in the CINEMA 2007 section is the screening of the film in competition Barcelona, un mapa – Barcelona, a Map by Ventura Pons, in the Sala Sinopoli, while Liebesleben – Love Life by Maria Schrader is being screened out of competition in the Sala Sinopoli at 10pm.

Top of the morning to ALICE NELLA CITTA’ at 10:30am in the Sala Sinopoli, for the screening of La misma luna – Under the Same Moon by Mexican filmmaker Patricia Riggen, while at the same time in the Salacinema IKEA Partes Usadas – Used Parts by Aaron Fernandez is on the program. A mid-afternoon screening for Pride by Sunu Gonera, in the Sala Santa Cecilia at 3:30pm.

Today in the EXTRA/Other Visions section, the Teatro Studio is hosting the following screenings: at 2:30pm, Clint Eastwood, le franc tireur – Clint Eastwood, a Life in Film by Michael Henry Wilson; at 5pm, Born – Children by Ragnar Bragason; at 8:30pm, Heima by Dean DeBlois, a documentary that tracks a sophisticated band like the Sigur Ros through a series of concerts in their native land, Iceland. Finally, last screening of the day in the Teatro Studio, at 11pm, Foreldrar – Parents, another work by Ragnar Bragason. At 10:30pm the Sala Petrassi joins in to host the documentary by Franco Fracassi and Francesco Trento, Zero – Inchiesta sull’11 Settembre (Zero – Investigation on 9/11).

On the program today in the EXTRA/Sophia Loren section are two screenings at the Casa del Cinema – Deluxe:  Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Vittorio De Sica at 6pm, and A Countess from Hong Kong by Charlie Chaplin at 9pm.

The EXTRA/Actors Studio section is getting a head start today with a 9am screening in Studio 3: Midnight Cowboy by John Schlesinger, followed at 11:30am in the same theater by The Rain People by Francis Ford Coppola.

Finally, the EXTRA section is also hosting today’s Tribute to Totò in the Sala Petrassi. The program is as follows: at 4pm the screening of the film by Mario Monicelli, Totò e Carolina; at 8pm the presentation of two documentaries, first Un principe chiamato Totò by Fabrizio Berruti and then Radiototò, teletotò by Silvana Palumbieri.