at American University
Our Journey on the Screen continues with three evenings of classic and contemporary movies.
Friday, September 26 @ 7PM
VIAGGIO IN ITALIA (1954)
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders
Sunday, September 28 @ 4:30PM
IL SORPASSO (1962)
Director: Dino Risi
Starring Vittorio Gassman and Catherine Spaak
Sunday, October 5 @ 4:30PM (Contemporary Film Double Feature)
LA MIA CLASSE (2013)
Director: Daniele Gaglianone
TIR (2013)
Director: Alberto Fasulo
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Malsi Doyle & Michael Forman Theater
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC
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NO TICKET OR RESERVATIONS REQUIREDLimited capacity (145 seats). First-come, first-serve until AU’s Doyle/Forman theater is full.
ADDITIONAL INFO
Viaggio in Italia
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring Ingrid Bergman and George SandersCatherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle’s villa. There’s a coolness in their relationship and aspects of Naples add to the strain. She remembers a poet who loved her and died in the war; although she didn’t love him, the memory underscores romance’s absence from her life now. She tours the museums of Naples and Pompeii, immersing herself in the Neapolitan fascination with the dead and noticing how many women are pregnant; he idles on Capri, flirting with women but drawing back from adultery. With her, he’s sarcastic; with him, she’s critical.
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Il Sorpasso
Director: Dino Risi
Starring Vittorio Gassman and Catherine SpaakAn impulsive braggart takes a shy law student for a two-day ride through the Roman and Tuscany countries. It is considered Risi’s masterpiece and one of the most famous examples of Commedia all’italiana film genre.
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La Mia Classe
Director: Daniele GaglianoneThe ostensibly simple story of a sympathetic veteran teacher giving Italian lessons to a weekly class of diverse immigrants is given infinitely more depth and complexity by the manner in which director Daniele Gaglianone renders his story.
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Tir
Director: Alberto FasuloBranko has been a truck driver for only a few months, a choice that is quite understandable, given that he now earns three times as much as he did as a schoolteacher. But everything has a price, which is not always quantifiable in terms of money. As children we were told: “work ennobles man”. But here the opposite seems true: it is Branko, with his efficiency, his obstinacy, his good will, who ennobles a job that grows more and more alienating, absurd and enslaving.
TRAILER (via Youtube)
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