Italian movies at the 30th Miami International Film Festival
This year Italian cinema is represented at the Festival by five important features, covering a wide range of genres and styles. OFFICIAL WEBSITE: miamifilmfestival.com FEATURED ITALIAN FILMS BOB WILSON’S LIFE AND DEATH OF MARINA ABRAMOVIC Giada Colagrande 2012 Run time: 96 min. | UK, Spain, Italy | ( screenings ) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE. Marina Abramovic’s […]
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THE NEXT WAVE: INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INNOVATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
THE WASHINGTON, DC INTERNATIONAL DESIGN FESTIVAL A three-month multidisciplinary design celebration featuring the exhibition What makes an object useful, engaging and beautiful? What is it about a distinct design that conveys calm, wonder and excitement in the user and helps us recall a moment in time? Artisphere and Apartment Zero present the Washington, DC International […]
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A Life on Its Own Line
The Secret of Glass – Poems by Corrado Calabrò Book Presentation A collection of Italian contemporary poems presented by Mrs. Grace Cavalieri, poet, Dr. Joseph Abraham Levi, George Washington University, and by the author Corrado Calabrò. A Life on Its Own Line – The Secret of Glass – Poems by Corrado Calabrò English translations by […]
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La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
at Palm Beach Opera Gioachino Rossini’s Angelina (Cinderella) is a beautiful, tolerant and forgiving young woman who is treated as little more than a scullery maid by her abusive family. She must overcome the cruel antics of her scheming stepfather and jealous stepsisters to win her devastatingly handsome Prince. The startlingly beautiful Vivica Genaux brings […]
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Manon Lescaut
Inside Washington National Opera’s Production of Puccini’s Passionate Drama Presented by Washington National Opera and the Embassy of Italy/Italian Cultural Institute. Join director John Pascoe and Italian baritone Giorgio Caoduro for a program of discussion and music that explores this Puccini classic. Intensely romantic and dramatically compelling, Manon Lescaut was Puccini’s first popular work; it […]
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Michelangelo, The Art, The Affections
A lecture by Pina Ragionieri A lightness full of pathos characterizes this unusual biography made of glimpses and flashes of inspiration of Michelangelo Buonarroti, told by the guardian of his family home in Florence’s Via Ghibellina. Pina Ragionieri goes on the trail of the life of this great genius of boundless humanity, with a light […]
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Obama in Naples
Playwright Claudio Angelini and Director Stephan Morrow present Neapolitan crazyness and fun break out when an Italian journalist, who covered the terrible Irpinia earthquake of 1980, returns to Naples to investigate whether conditions will ever improve there. He is mistaken for a member of President Obama’s advance party and ends up getting more involved in […]
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THE RIGHTEOUS ENEMY
INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2013 About the Photo: Venice, 1941: Italian Foreign Minister Ciano (left) and German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop (seated at right). Circled: The Marquis d’Ajeta (left) and Count Pietromarchi, two high-ranking Italian officials who were to become instrumental in preventing the deportation of thousands of Jews from territories occupied by Fascist Italy. […]
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1938 l’Invenzione del Nemico (The Invention of the Enemy: 1938)
INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2013 On the occasion of Remembrance Day 2013, the play 1938 L’invenzione del nemico will be launched at the Embassy of Italy. The evening will include an illustrated lecture on the racial laws of 1938, which constitute the historical background on which events unfold and the lives of the characters entangle. […]
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow The film consists of three short stories about couples in different parts of Italy. Starring in all three episodes Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. The film won the Academy for Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards. Director: Vittorio De Sica – Italy 1963 – 118 min. Marriage Italian […]
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