La kryptonite nella borsa (Kryptonite!)
MOVIE SCREENING The year is 1973. Swingin’ Naples is the place. Frizzy-haired, bespectacled Peppino (Luigi Catani) is nine years old and watching the world changing through the misadventures of his dysfunctional family. Adapting his own novel for the screen, writer/director Ivan Cotroneo (I Am Love, Loose Cannons) nostalgically depicts the psychedelic era in an ancient […]
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Amici Miei (My Friends) – NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Movie Screening CINEFORUM WITH ITALIANS IN DC 2012 The main theme of Amici miei is friendship, seen from a rather bitter point of view. It tells the story of four middle-aged friends who live in Florence and organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, “gypsy shenanigans”) in a continuous attempt to prolong childhood throughout their adult […]
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Michelangelo Antonioni Centenary
at the National Gallery of Art September 29 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italian master filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007), arguably the most influential director of the postwar era. The National Gallery of Art joins the Italian Cultural Institute, Washington, in a retrospective of his most distinguished works. The early Italian films, including […]
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Amarcord
MOVIE SCREENING CINEFORUM WITH ITALIANS IN DC 2012 A carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during Fascism, Amarcord is maybe the most intimate of all Fellini’s films, turning daily life into a dreamlike show of social rituals, teenager desires, fantasies, and political intricacies. Nina Rota’s music aptly accompanies this magical journey back to a recent, still […]
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VINCERE
MOVIE SCREENING The story revolves around Benito Albino Dalser, son of the dictator Benito Mussolini, and Ida Irene Dalsen. The film traces the tormented love between Mussolini and Ida from the day they met each other to the day their son ends up in a madhouse. Italy, 2009 – color, 124 minutes Directed by […]
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Part of DC Jazz Festival For the first time in Washington, DC, and as part of DC Jazz Festival, Italian music legend Pino Daniele will perform live at newly renovated Howard Theatre. Born in Naples, Italy on March 19, 1955, self-taught guitarist Pino Daniele recorded his first album at the age of 22. From the […]
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EuroAsia SHORTS 2012
Short Films from Europe, Asia and the United States EuroAsia Shorts 2012, now in its seventh year, proudly presents a selection of 27 short films from Europe, Asia, and the United States, screened at embassies and cultural centers in Washington D.C. for five nights, June 4– 8, 2012. Each evening allows the local public to […]
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The Cahokia Project:
An Italian-American Archaelogical Project in an Ancient Native American Metropolis Presentation Professor Davide Domenici presents The Cahokia Project: An Effort Toward the Integration of Different Scientific Traditions, a research project started in 2011 in the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (IL), and one of the most important archaeological sites in the United States, National Historic […]
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Eurovision Song Contest 2012
On the occasion of the Eurovision Song Contest on May 26, 2012, a party will be held at the Embassy of Austria. The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among the 44 active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Eurovision has been broadcast every year since its inauguration in 1956 and […]
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L’America non esiste
A ParoLab Event Book Presentation The Embassy of Italy/Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with Italians in DC, present L’America non esiste (Mondadori 2012), a book by Antonio Monda. This book tells the story of two young Italians, brother and sister, who arrive in New York in the 1950s and are confronted with the harsh reality […]
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