Italy: Lazio: Roma: Trastevere: Cinema Pasquino

PattyTrish
Las Cruces

Worth visiting!

If you live in Rome a long time this may be a nice break

I lived in Rome two years and found it a nice break to take in a film in English. I remember seeing “Singing in the Rain” there, which was an old film, even then. During intermission, sales people would come down the aisle with ice cream for sale. It is in a wonderfully interesting neighborhood – at night it comes alive. Carry your valuables in a safe, inside pocket, though!

Great pizza in the pizza parlors all around the area.

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Paola
Noord-Holland

Unfortunately

Pasquino movie theatre (that was the name) has run out of business in the meanwhile.
Now there are Nuovo Olimpia, near Montecitorio, and Metropolitan, on Via del Corso, near Piazza del Popolo, that show movies in the original version.

Curmudgeon
Los Angeles

Jog to the memory

I find it charming, this tale about seeing Singing in the Rain in Rome. I gotta write up my 1980 trips to the cinema in the Mayfair Building, Hazratganj, Lucknow for at least one of the Pink Panther movies and for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, upon which occasion the fellow in the projection booth played the reels in the wrong order. (I feel foolish to admit that the reason I found the film mystifying was not immediately apparent to me.)

PattyTrish
Las Cruces

Wrong order

In 1981, the Eagles were in the playoffs and superbowl and the superbowl was broadcast in Rome, prerecorded earlier that day. An American couple let me into their home to watch it on their television (I didn’t have a TV). The Italian broadcasters had a “pregame” show where they introduced the terminology of “downs” and actually had a football player strip down to show off all the padding under the uniform. They held a football up to the camera and moved it to show the viewing audience a 360 degree look at the ball. Well, the broadcast started with the first half. Which they accidentally showed AGAIN, and then the second half. They never realized they were repeating the 1st half and their commentary was even different for the second “showing”. By the time the final whistle blew (well after midnight, Rome time) and the Eagles lost…my hosts were asleep. This was a little awkward as the TV was in their bedroom and I was sitting on the floor watching the TV while they fell asleep in bed. It’s a funny memory to me….I was, at least, glad that season that the Eagles whupped the Cowboys….

Another movie memory: there was a theatre that showed “Ben Hur” dubbed in Italian. I went to that film and the Italians watching it found it hysterical – the Hollywood representations of early Roman conquerers. There was a lot of laughing going on!

Did I ever mention the theatre in Rome that had unusual airconditioning? After the film started (at night) part of the roof slid open. You could look up at the stars from your seat. I think that was a theatre in Trastevere….

PT


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