THE MARATHONS
‘DISNEY – UNDER THE SEA’
In the year in which the theme of the Giffoni Experience is water, there has to be a film marathon dedicated to it. Our journey begins ‘under the sea’ with THE LITTLE MERMAID by Ron Clements and John Musker (1989, 83 '): Ariel is a free spirited mermaid who dreams of becoming a Princess and being part of the human world. After bravely making a deal with Ursula, a deceitful sea witch, Ariel is ready to embark on the adventure that will forever change her life. We meet with the young Milo in his search for ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise(2001, 95 '): an extraordinary adventure to discover the mystery that surrounds the legendary lost empire of Atlantis. Driven by the desire to find the mythical kingdom of the abyss, Milo, a young adventurer, discovers an ancient manuscript containing clues to a secret location. Together with group of eccentric explorers guided by the lively Rourke, Milo will board the submarine Ulysees to go on the risky expedition in the depths of the sea. Then we jump in the heat of the Hawaiian island of Kauai in the company of LILO & STITCH by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois(2002, 82 '):Lilo is a sweet little girl who adopts a bizarre little blue dog, without knowing that Stitch is actually an outlaw alien experiment, who had a fortunate crush on Earth with his spaceship. The Pacific Ocean, the largest on Earth, gift us with a fantastic spectacle: the Great Barrier Reef. It is exactly there that starts the story of FINDING NEMO by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (2003,100 ') about Marlin a very protective clown fish, and his son Nemo; they get separated when Nemo is unexpectedly taken away to be put in a dentist’s aquarium. Encouraged by his travelling companion Dory, a palette surgeon fish suffering from memory lapses, Marlin will go on a long an dangerous journey in which he will become the unlikely hero in an amazing mission to save his son. A year later in the mind of Dory, memories about her parents resurface and she starts looking for them. Following an unfortunate encounter, she will end up in the High Sea section of the Marine Life Institute, that is the adventure of FINDING DORY by Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane (2016, 97 ') and rescue her. We finish our journey with MOANA by Ron Clements and John Musker (2016, 107 ') on the island of Motunui, where the young protagonist will bravely go on an mission to save her people. Moana, who has an inexplicable connection with the Ocean and all its marine forms, will manage to persuade the powerful demi-god Maui come along on her journey.
BACK TO THE 80'S IN COLLABORATION WITH INFINITY AND UNIVERSAL PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT ITALIA
On Wednesday, July 19th, on the eve of the official opening of the 48th edition, the new Giffoni Multimedia Valley Blue Hall will become a 'time machine' to let the younger kids experience, and to feel them once again for those who were then teenagers at the time, the emotions of the films that made history: the Back to the '80s marathon will start at 15:00, made with the collaboration of INFINITY and UNIVERSAL PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT ITALIA, with six of the more representative titles of the decade, the crucial years of the tee and young oriented films. A journey through the cult film of the decade, from BLADE RUNNER, 1982 film directed by Ridley Scott (Alien, The Gladiator), with the timeless Harrison Ford in the shoes of a bounty hunter committed to chasing four replicants who stole a spaceship and are back on Earth to find their maker, to GREMLINS directed by Joe Dante, who in 1984 conquered the audience with the story of Billy, played by Zach Galligan, who inadvertently breaks three important rules regarding his new pet, unleashing a horde of monsters in a small town. Then form 1988 THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, one of Terry Gilliam's masterpieces, loosely base on the novel with the same name by Rudolf Erich Rasoe, to transport on screen the fantastic adventures of the Baron and the amazing experiences he shared with his friends. In a post apocalyptic future is set. In a post-apocalyptic future, however, is set MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME, directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie in 1985 with a very young Mel Gibson (Braveheart, What Women Want) in the role of the protagonist 'Mad' Max Rockatansky, defeated by the curel Aunty Entity (an amazing Tina Turner), but rescued by a community of young people that drive, at the risk of their own lives, toward 'tomorrow'. Of course, BACK TO THE FUTURE couldn't possibly be missing; with the first two films directed by Robert Zemeckis, and Michael J. Fox starring as the unforgettable Marty McFly, Christopher Lloyd sporting the white coat of the genial 'Doc' Emmett L. Brown, creator of the 'flux capacitor' that transformed a DeLorean into a time machine. The first accidental journey takes Marty from the Hill Valley of 1985 (release year of the film) to 1955: third wheel in the nascent relationship of his young parents, Marty manages to turn his presence in the past in a resource to chance the future of all the main characters. The sequel BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (1988), will take the protagonist to a futuristic 2015 to prevent the 'future' son to get a one way ticket to jail, and will force him to realign the space-time continuum to restore the peace in his family and in his picturesque town. An exceptional programme that manages to put together famous names, styles, genres and different stories to give the public a fascinating and overwhelming view of a truly exciting period of cinema: absolutely not to be missed.