Cinema Lux
Via di Pietralata,
Rome
00157
Via di Pietralata,
Rome
00157
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Previous Names: Cinema Nevada, Cinema Boston
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A long-gone neighborhood cinema and variety theatre in the Pietralata district. A key scene in Fellini’s 1957 film “The Nights of Cabiria” was shot here and the location may have been selected by Pier Paolo Pasolini who assisted Fellini in the writing of that movie and was very familiar with that impoverished “borgata” or neighborhood. The Cinema Lux was demolished and replaced by the Pietralata station of the Metro B subway line.
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Gerald DeLuca
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In Fellini’s “Nights of Cabiria,” Cabiria is a Roman prostitute with a penchant for bad luck. One night she enters this cinema-variety venue, is made to appear onstage by a hypnotist who has her pour out some of her most personal memories and feelings, to the derision and hoots of the loutish male audience. After the show she is approached by a seemingly kind man who, professing love, later exploits here for a large sum of money. The story of this film became the basis for the stage musical and movie “Sweet Charity.”