FILM: Blame Freud – Comedy |2013
Cinema at the Institute: Contemporary Italian BLAME FREUD Director: Paolo Genovese Year: 2013 | Duration: 120 min Cast: Marco Giallini, Vittoria Puccini, Anna Foglietta In Italian with subtitles in English Francesco Taramelli is a psychoanalyst who is dealing with three patients going through various hurdles in their love lives: Marta is chasing a deaf-mute man […]
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FILM: The Great Beauty – Drama – 2013
Cinema at the Institute: Rettrospettiva Paolo Sorrentino THE GREAT BEAUTY Director: Paolo Sorrentino Year: 2013 | Duration: 142 min Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli In Italian with subtitles in English Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his […]
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DHARAMSALA: Italian Wave – a selection of video-art curated by FRANCESCA FINI
Francesca Fini is an interdisciplinary artist mainly focused on new media, experimental cinema and performance art. She lives and works in Rome. The focus of her work is always the body and its own narrative power, but inserted in a sort of exuberant “multimedia pot” where live videoart pieces are mixed with generative audio, lo-fi […]
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FILM: The Consequences of Love – Drama | 2003
Cinema at the Institute: Rettrospettiva Paolo Sorrentino THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE Director: Paolo Sorrentino Year: 2003 | Duration: 100 min Cast: Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adirano Giannini In Italian with subtitles in English Titta di Girolamo has spent eight years living alone, not working. His only vices are cigarettes and hanging around in bars, he seems […]
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KOLKATA: Italian Wave – a selection of video-art curated by FRANCESCA FINI
Francesca Fini is an interdisciplinary artist mainly focused on new media, experimental cinema and performance art. She lives and works in Rome. The focus of her work is always the body and its own narrative power, but inserted in a sort of exuberant “multimedia pot” where live videoart pieces are mixed with generative audio, lo-fi […]
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DELHI: PIANO RECITAL – Gabriele Carcano
Gabriele Carcano, Born in Turin in 1985, began to study the piano at the age of seven and graduated from the Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi in Turin at the age of seventeen with the highest grades and honors. He continued his studies with Andrea Lucchesini at the Accademia di Musica in Pinerolo and with Aldo Ciccolini in Paris, […]
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CHENNAI: ITALIAN FILM SCREENING @ European Union Film Festival: L’INTREPIDO
L’INTREPIDO Director: Gianni AmelioGenre: Comedy / DramaDuration: 104 minsYear of production: 2013Cast: Antonio Albanese, Livia Rossi, Gabriele Rendina, Alfonso Santagata, Sandra Ceccarelli Set in modern day Milan, INTREPIDO: A LONELY HERO is a Chaplinesque odyssey through the world of work – every type of work, but primarily unskilled manual labour – as seen through the […]
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FILM: Fasten Your Seatbelts – Comedy; Drama | 2014
Cinema at the Institute: Contemporary Italian FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS Director: Ferzan Ozpetek Year: 2014 | Duration: 110 min Cast: Kasia Smutniak, Francesco Arka, Filippo Scicchitano In Italian with subtitles in English Elena and Antonio seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the […]
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TALK: ART – Michelangelo nella citta di Borgias
Speaker: Prof. Eugenio Lo Sardo, Director of the Italian National Archives and Professor of Museology at the Roman University “La Sapienza”. Author of numerous books and curator of international exhibitions, he has lectured at various colleges and universities around the world, especially on the history of Italian art and archeology. His most recent publication is […]
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TALK: ART – Caravaggio in Rome: The first years
Speaker: Prof. Eugenio Lo Sardo, Director of the Italian National Archives and Professor of Museology at the Roman University “La Sapienza”. Author of numerous books and curator of international exhibitions, he has lectured at various colleges and universities around the world, especially on the history of Italian art and archeology. His most recent publication is […]
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