Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips)
A Journey on the Screen An Italian housewife, Rosalba Barletta (Maglietta), finds herself stranded during a family vacation. Instead of waiting for her controlling businessman husband, she hitchhikes her way home, only to impulsively detour to Venice. She finds accommodations with Fernando Girasole (Ganz), and soon finds herself enjoying her new life. Directors: Silvio Soldini […]
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Rights(?)/Growth
at the Kennedy Center – Millenium Stage An Evening for Humanity Italian dancer and choreographer Mimmo Miccolis and Austrian dancer Gloria Benedikt develop contemporary dance on the edge of artistic innovation and human need and base their work around issues of public concern, for which they strive to create artistic responses that inspire, thought provoke […]
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Salvatore Scarpitta Traveler
LUOGO: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Una figura affascinante e singolare dell’arte del dopoguerra, Salvatore Scarpitta (1919-2007) ha creato una mole di lavoro che spazia dall’astrazione non oggettiva al realismo radicale. Questa mostra è dotata di opere recenti aggiunte alla collezione del Hirshhorn, questa sarà la prima mostra personale del lavoro di Scarpitta in […]
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Terre Rosse
Movie Screening CINEFORUM It’s 1944. A man and a woman meet in a train station during the Nazi occupation of Veneto. It’s the start of a touching story, an impossible love between a young teacher involved in the Resistance and the brilliant officer of a Fascist ministry during the partisan struggle taking place on the […]
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ore Diciotto in punto (At Precisely Six O’Clock)
Journey on the Screen A dusty office out of Time holds the files containing the most significant events that will mark the life of human beings. Paride has been working there for more than three thousand years. At six o’clock on a rainy afternoon, Paride has an appointment with Nicola, a homeless man defeated and […]
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GREAT ITALIAN CLASSICS
AT THE AFI SILVER THEATRE MOVIE SCREENINGS Three cinema programs featuring Italian classics directed by Mario Bava, Sergio Leone, Mario Monicelli e Francesco Rosi. Join us and AFI Silver to support these great movie screenings! MARIO BAVA CENTENNIAL: HERE CINEMA AND GREAT CINEMA: HERE SERGIO LEONE: HERE ORGANIZED BY LOCATION AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural […]
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Titian’s Danaë
at the National Gallery of Art From the Capodimonte Museum, Naples ABOUT THE PHOTO: Titian, Danaë (1544–1545), oil on canvas, Capodimonte Museum, Naples. Courtesy of the Photography Department of the Superintendency of Cultural Heritage for the City and the Museums of Naples and the Royal Palace of Caserta/Luciano Basagni, Fabio Speranza One of the most […]
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BAARÌA
A Journey on the Screen Baarìa is an epic drama, which tracks down five decades of the life in the small town of Bagheria near Palermo, Sicily. The town in local dialect is known as Baarìa. Giuseppe Tornatore‘s film focuses on Peppino, a shepherd’s son. Peppino isn’t massively compelling as a character in his own right, […]
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CINEFORUM: Mi Rifaccio Vivo (I’ll Be Back)
This film tells the hilarious story of entrepreneur Biagio Bianchetti – owner of BB stores and his eternal rivalry, which began at school, with the lucky, good-looking and charming Ottone Di Valerio. After a series of unfortunate events, dogged by bad luck and now on the brink of bankruptcy, Biagio makes a last and ultimate […]
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HANNO TUTTI RAGIONE (Everybody’s Right)
Based on Paolo Sorrentino’s Novel PERFORMED BY IAIA FORTE Performed by Iaia Forte, leading actress in The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino (Academy Award, 2014, Best Foreign Language Film.) The play is a monologue based on Sorrentino’s 2010 novel, Hanno tutti ragione (Everybody’s Right,) which tells the story of Tony Pagoda, a singer from the […]
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