FELLINI’S 8 1/2
at AFI Silver 50th Anniversary 50TH ANNIVERSARY! In his films with Federico Fellini, actor Marcello Mastroianni always registered as an alter-ego for the director, but never more so than here, where he plays Guido, a director who, following an enormous hit, has no idea what his next film will be about. Creatively stifled and unsure […]
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SUDESTIVAL in DC brings to the USA films that participated in the 2013 SUDESTIVAL competition. It offers six feature films and three shorts, which will reveal to the American audience aspects of the most contemporary Italian reality through the lens of a new generation of talented filmmakers. Following this first edition, SUDESTIVAL in DC will […]
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Tour Around Italy
Photographs from ANSA News Agency An exhibit on fascinating photographs taken by the leading Italian news agency Ansa Walk Through: May 23 On display: May 20 – May 24, 2013 Sara Forden (Bloomberg), Ryan Lizza (New Yorker), Frances Sellers (Washington Post), and Marcello Campo (ANSA) will provide a commentary on the Italy they know and […]
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Michelangelo’s David-Apollo: AN OFFER HE COULDN’T REFUSE
Lecture by Dr. Alison Luchs Michelangelo created the statue now known as David-Apollo around 1530 to please the tyrannical governor of Florence, Baccio Valori. This unfinished work was recently lent by the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence to the National Gallery of Art, where it was on view from December 13, 2012, to March 7, […]
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EUROVISION 2013
at the Embassy of Sweden LIVE HD Broadcast from the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. 39 countries, 600 million viewers – only one winner! Join Europe on May 18 for a LIVE High-Definition broadcast from the song contest in Malmö. The Embassy of Sweden in Washington DC, in partnership with the EU Delegation and European Broadcasting […]
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Roberto Palomba: Italian Industrial Designer
at Artisphere Presented by Apartment Zero at Artisphere on the occasion of The Washington, DC International Design Festival and in conjunction with The Next Wave: Industrial Design Innovation in the 21st Century. Experience this unique opportunity to meet one of the world’s most prolific and sought-after product designers, direct from Milan. Roberto Palomba founded Milan-based […]
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2013 EU OPEN HOUSE: Call for Volunteers
Interested in the European Union? Get to know us firsthand by volunteering at the 7th Annual European Union Embassies’ Open House on Saturday, May 11, 2013; 10AM – 4PM. We are looking for volunteers to help us direct visitors to the participating embassies from Open House bus stops along Embassy Row and other downtown locations […]
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Tour Around Italy – CANCELLED
Photographs from ANSA News Agency An exhibit on fascinating photographs taken by the leading Italian news agency Ansa THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Walk Through: May 15 On display: May 11 – May 25, 2013 Ryan Lizza (New Yorker), Sebastian Rotella (ProPublica), and Frances Sellers (Washington Post) will provide a commentary on the Italy they […]
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Imagining the Renaissance: ALBRECHT DÜRER AND ITALY
Lecture by Alice Jarrard WITH MUSICAL INTERLUDES BY CAPELLA DE LA TORRE Presented in collaboration with the Goethe Institut. Albrecht Dürer’s relationship to Italy inspired him, of course, but also Italians in his own time, writers reimagining the Italian Renaissance in the late 19th century, and thinkers today. This talk, by art historian Alice Jarrard, […]
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Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini
Movie Screening Cineforum con Italians in DC Ferrara, 1930s, la dolce vita of Micòl and other young bourgeois of the Jewish community turns into a tragedy with the fascist racial laws and the outbreak of the war. Italy- 1970, color, 95 min. Directed by Vittorio De Sica Film in Italian with English subtitles TRAILER […]
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