Magnifica Presenza (Magnificent Presence)
MOVIE SCREENING This event is part of the 2013 Turkish Cultural Heritage Month and is presented in collaboration with ATA-DC. Pietro (Elio Germano), a young Sicilian gay man, moves to Rome to pursue his life-long dream of being an actor. He is shy, introverted, and a bit confused about his sexual orientation. As he must […]
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VERDI’S I MASNADIERI
by Washington Concert Opera Antony Walker, WCO Artistic director and conductor, presents a WCO production of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera I masnadieri. Musical excerpts will be performed by soprano Colleen Daly and tenor Rolando Sanz, accompanied on the piano by Patrick O’Donnell. Washington Concert Opera presents this masterpiece as part of its 2013-14 Season “Celebration of […]
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Mine Vaganti (Loose Cannons)
Movie screening Tommaso Cantone has lived in Rome for some time, and there he has been able to set up his own independent life as a homosexual man. At some point he goes back to his native Salento, in the South of Italy, soon to realize how difficult it is for him to adapt to […]
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Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era una volta il West)
Movie screening An intricated story of loyalty and betrayal, love and hate, mercy and revenge, unfolds in a forlorn small village in the wildest West. Many critics consider Once Upon a Time in the West Leone’s greatest cinematic achievement. It sealed his worldwide success in the American Western genre, making him a link to the […]
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QUALITY OF CARE AND QUALITY OF CURE IN DIABETES
Italy and USA: Diabetes Panel Experts Meeting SCIENTIFIC, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLICY APPROACH Featured speakers are world class experts who will discuss the state of the art in the field of diabetes research: its complications, prevention, treatment and management. MORE INFO AND SCHEDULE: CLICK HERE Participants: Renato Lauro (President, Rome Tor Vergata University), Giuseppina Imperatore […]
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Le notti di Cabiria
The nights of Cabiria was Fellini’s seventh movie and his second Academy Award (1958), securing his international movie stardom. It also marked the beginning of his love affair with the city of Rome. The story unfolds in the city’s most depressed and seedy circles. Cabiria is a prostitute unlucky in love. The movie starts out […]
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SHUN LI AND THE POET (IO SONO LI)
at AFI Silver An indentured servant indebted to the snakehead who brought her from China to Italy, Shun Li is sent from her factory job outside of Rome to work in a pub in a small town along the Venetian Lagoon. There she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a Slavic refugee and fisherman named […]
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Bernini: His Life His Rome
Lecture by Franco Mormando Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And Bernini’s artistic vision remains palpably present today through the countless statues, fountains, buildings […]
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La Scoperta dell’Alba
Movie Screening Cineforum The screening will be followed by a discussion with the Director, Susanna Nicchiarelli. SYNOPSIS: Rome, 1981: with seven shots from a revolver, two members of the Red Brigade gun down professor Mario Tessandori in the university courtyard, in plain sight. He dies in the arms of his friend and colleague Lucio Astengo. […]
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Dario Zucchi: New and Selected Photographs
ON VIEW: By appt. (Mon-Fri:10am-12/2pm-4pm), Reservations at rsvp@iicwashington.info Dario Zucchi explores those brilliant, generally unrecognized connections between modern art and its admirers. The photographer’s search for visitors displaying the perfect combination of colors, shapes, textures, and attitudes to be juxtaposed with paintings and sculptures, yields the delight of surprise and the shock of recognition. Introduction […]
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