Directors back Rome Film Festival
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008A-list moviemakers have attacked plans by Rome’s right-wing mayor-elect Gianni Alemanno to shut Hollywood out of the city’s annual film fest. On Sunday in Rome’s politically charged atmosphere, Alemanno repeated his vow to do away with “a catwalk of Hollywood stars, who were “just about image” at the Rome Film Festival. But two-time Oscar winner Milos Forman said it would be “really absurd to downsize an event” that in “just two years had managed to become a capital of cinema like Venice.”




