Libreria del Cinema (Via dei Fienaroli 31d, Rome, in Trastevere, on Via dei Fienaroli between the Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere and the Viale di Trastevere, accessible by tram 8 from Largo Argentina): the Rome bookshop specializing in cinema and film culture, the screenplays, the monographs on directors and actors, the film history and theory, the Italian and international film journals, and the specific ephemera (film posters, lobby cards, and cinematographic objects) that the cinephile collector uses as the primary indicators of a genuinely specialized cinema bookshop.
The Libreria del Cinema significance in the Rome cultural geography: Rome is simultaneously the production capital of Italian cinema (Cinecittà, the Rome film studios where the Italian film tradition was built, where Fellini shot his major films, where the Italian genre cinema of the 1960s-1970s was produced) and the city with the most specifically cinephile cultural infrastructure in Italy (the Rome Film Festival, the Casa del Cinema in Villa Borghese, the weekly Cineforum programs at the Casa del Cinema and the Tibur cinema): the Libreria del Cinema is the specific bookshop that this cinephile cultural infrastructure anchors in Trastevere, the neighborhood that historically housed the film community (the directors, the actors, the cinematographers who lived in the Trastevere-Pigneto-Ostiense area and whose community the Libreria del Cinema's events program serves).
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Libreria del Cinema: Collection, Events, and Community
The Screenplay Collection
Libreria del Cinema screenplay collection (the most extensive Italian-language screenplay collection in any Italian bookshop, the published and archival screenplays of Italian and international films, from the classic Italian cinema (the De Sica, the Rossellini, the Visconti, the Fellini screenplays in the specific Italian published edition) to the contemporary Italian cinema (the Sorrentino, the Garrone, the Moretti screenplays) and the international cinema in Italian translation): the specific value of the Libreria del Cinema screenplay collection for the visiting filmmaker, film student, or cinephile is the concentration of material unavailable in any comparable single bookshop in Italy, the shop that the Rome film community uses as its primary reference and supply source.
The Events Program
Libreria del Cinema events (the weekly events program, the author presentations, the director discussions, the film criticism panels, and the specific anniversary and retrospective events that the cinephile calendar generates): check the Libreria del Cinema social media and website for the current events calendar, the events are typically free or €5 entry and draw the specific Rome film community (the directors, critics, and academics who treat the bookshop as the primary informal venue for the film culture discussion that the institutional venues (the Rome Film Festival, the Casa del Cinema) formalize).
Q&A: Libreria del Cinema
What languages is the Libreria del Cinema collection in?
The primary collection is Italian (the Italian-language film books, screenplays, and monographs that form the core stock) with a significant English-language section (the international film theory and criticism, the English-language director biographies, and the specific English-language screenplays that the international co-production tradition has produced in bilingual editions). The French-language cinema collection is the third largest section, reflecting both the French cinema tradition's historical importance to the Italian cinephile and the specific Rome-Paris co-production history of the 1960s-1980s. The shop can order specific international film publications not in stock, allow 2-3 weeks for orders from the international distributors.
