The Torino Film Festival, under the direction of Steve Della Casa, launched its 40th edition on Friday evening at the sumptuous Teatro Regio, not with a film screening, but with music. For this jub…
, and their love for cinema which made them work with Jean-Luc Godard and Martin Scorsese, among others.
In front of the crowd, the guests told some memorable and sometimes unpublished anecdotes about their history with the two English bands’ music. The director David Grieco made the audience laugh by telling why, while he was initially a Beatles fan in his teens, he became a Stones fan. He had bought his ticket a year in advance for the Beatles’ double concert at Rome’s Teatro Adriano in 1965, “but in the middle of the first song, a woman in the audience, taller than me, threw up on me.
Also on stage were Italian solo singer Noemi and Samuel from the group Subsonica, the music critic John Vignola and the journalist and former TV host Vincenzo Mollica. The gala was animated by the patroness of the 40th edition of the festival, actor Pilar Fogliati, Della Casa and the presenters of “Hollywood Party,” Claudio De Pasqualis and David Grieco. While the singer Francesco De Gregori participated in the event via videolink.
McDowell, who is also celebrating the 50th anniversary of “A Clockwork Orange’s” release this year, spoke about Mick Jagger’s links with cinema. “We used to be friends. We were hanging around in New York. At the time, we were the ‘In Crowd’ with Andy Warhol and all. One evening, we were hanging out at somebody’s apartment on the east side of Central Park. We were sitting in a window seat and talking because Jagger wanted to play Alex in ‘A Clockwork Orange.
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