Monday, November 29, 2021
5 pm, Room 9A
Il Caimano
By Nanni Moretti, 2006
Starring Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy and Jasmine Trinca, 112 min, color, Italian with English subtitles
Bruno Bonomo is a film producer who hasn't made a film for years. He's separating from his wife and his studio. At a retrospective showing of one of his B-movies, young filmmaker Teresa presses a copy of her new script into his hand. Bonomo reads the script distractedly and agrees to produce the film. He doesn’t understand that it's a serious political piece about the rise of Berlusconi.
This film is part of the course F2102 Italian Contemporary History in Films.
Open to students and faculty.
Monday, November 22, 2021
5 pm, Room 9A
Quando sei nato, non puoi più nasconderti
By Marco Tullio Giordana, 2005.
Starring Alessio Boni and Michela Cescon, 115 min, color, Italian with English subtitle
Sandro is twelve years old and has a carefree life in a small provincial town. One day, during a boat trip in the Mediterranean with his father, he falls into the water and they cannot reach him before he disappears into the waves. He is rescued from a hull on which illegal immigrants are on their way to Italy, hoping for a better life and the mirage of a job to support their families. Among the emigrants are two Romanian brothers, Radu and Alina. They are the same age as Sandro and between the three boys there is a relationship that increasingly resembles a friendship, despite the differences and the different language. Sandro feels close to them, and especially to Alina, so beautiful in his teenage eyes. It is adulthood that bursts into his life, showing him the squalor and rawness of reality and forcing him to look at the world with different eyes...
This film is part of the courses F2118 Anthropological Perspective and Borders, Migration and Mobility in the Mediterranean and F2119 Italian Immigration Film.
Open to students and faculty.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
5 pm, Room 9A
Blade Runner 2049
By Denis Villeneuve, 2017.
Starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, 152 min, color, English.
After a series of violent riots in 2020, Tyrell-produced replicants have been banned. In the same year, a major blackout that almost completely destroyed every digital data on the planet, and severe climate change kicked off a season of famine, which was only survived thanks to the synthetic crops of Wallace, a company headed by the mysterious Neander Wallace.
This film is part of the course F2117 Science (Fiction) and Posthuman.
Open to students and faculty.
November 15, 2021
5 pm, Room 9A
Mimì Metallurgico
By Lina Wertmuller, 1972
Starring Mariangela Melato and Giancarlo Giannini, 125 mins, color, Italian with English subtitles
Mimi is a Sicilian dockworker who inadvertently becomes embroiled in an increasingly complicated array of personal conflicts. When he loses his job after voting against a Mafia kingpin in an allegedly secret election, Mimi leaves his wife to find new work.
He moves to Turin, where he engages in an affair with a Communist organizer. Soon Mimi finds himself juggling two demanding relationships while plotting to take revenge against the corrupt forces that ruined his life.
This film is part of the course "F2102 Italian Contemporary History in Films".
Open to students and faculty.
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
5 pm, Room 9A
Blade Runner
By Ridley Scott, 1982.
Starring Harrison Ford e Rutger Hauer, 118 min, color, English.
The film is set in a bleak Los Angeles located in the future, in 2019, where a company, the Tyrrel Corporation, has developed a daring program: the creation of androids, synthetic beings completely similar to humans, but endowed with remarkable intellectual and physical abilities. Their lifespan does not exceed four years and they are used as slaves for dangerous operations in off-Earth colonies. When clones engage in a violent mutiny at an extraterrestrial station, they are outlawed on Earth.
This film is part of the course F2117 Science (Fiction) and Posthuman.
Open to students and faculty.
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
5 pm, Room 9B
Shun Li and the Poet
By Andrea Segre, 2011
Starring Zhao Tao e Rade Sherbedgia, 110 min, color, Italian with English subtitle.
Shun Li works in a textile workshop in the Roman suburbs to obtain the documents and be able to get her eight-year-old son to come to Italy. Suddenly she is transferred to Chioggia, a small island town in the Venetian lagoon to work as a bartender in a tavern. Bepi, a fisherman of Slavic origins, nicknamed "the Poet" by his friends, has been attending that small tavern for years. Their encounter is a poetic escape from solitude, a silent dialogue between different cultures, but not further away. It is a journey into the deep heart of a lagoon, which knows how to be a mother and cradle of never immobile identities. But the friendship between Shun Li and Bepi disturbs the two communities, the Chinese one and the Chioggia one, which hinder this new journey, of which perhaps they are simply still too afraid.
This film is part of the courses F2118 Anthropological Perspective and Borders, Migration and Mobility in the Mediterranean and F2119 Italian Immigration Film.
Open to students and faculty.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
5 pm, Room 9A
Saimir
By Francesco Munzi, 2004.
Starring Mishel Manoku e Xhevdet Feri, 88 min, color, Italian with English subtitle.
Albanian teenager, Saimir, emigrates to Italy to start a new life with his father. His father tries to make a living transporting illegal immigrants. When this fails to make his father any money, he is drawn into an insidious prostitution ring. Saimir helps his father, but a love interest makes him question his life and future.
This film is part of the course "F2119 Italian Immigration Film".
Open to students and faculty.
Monday, October 25, 2021
5 pm, Room 9A
Don Camillo
By Julien Duvivier,1952
Starring Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Leda Gloria
107 min, black and white, Italian with English subtitles.
The film is set in Brescello, a small village in the center of Italy and is based on the novel written by Giovannino Guareschi. The movie tells the story of the eternal struggle between the priest Don Camillo and the communist town’s major, Giuseppe Bottazzi, better known as "Peppone".
Laughs, gags and a touch of melancholy…
This film is part of the course "F2102 Italian Contemporary History in Films".
Open to students and faculty.
October 13, 2021
5 pm, Room 9A
Un Giorno Speciale
(A Special Day)
By Francesca Comencini, 2012
Starring Filippo Scicchitano e Giulia Valentini, 90 min, color, Italian with English subtitles.
Gina and Marco are very young and determined to become "someone". They meet one morning in a dazed suburb on the outskirts of Rome. She has an appointment with a politician who could put in a good word and help her get into show business, he is the driver who has the job of taking her to the appointment. It is the opportunity that both of them have been waiting for. The first day of work. The entry into the world of the greats. But nothing goes as it should go.
This film is part of the course "F2107 Comparing East and West. Heroines in International Films".
Open to students and faculty.
October 11, 2021
5 pm, Room 9A
La notte di San Lorenzo
By Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1982
Starring Margarita Lozano and Omero Antonutti, 105 min, color, Italian with English subtitles.
The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.
This film is part of the course "F2102 Italian Contemporary History in Films".
Open to students and faculty.
October 11, 2021
5 pm, Room 9A
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
by Ang Lee (2000)
Starring Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh, 115 mins, color, English.
A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
This film is part of the course "F2107 Comparing East and West. Heroines in International Films".
Open to students and faculty.
September 27, 2021
5 pm, Room 9A
Amarcord
by Federico Fellini (1973)
Starring Magalì Noel and Bruno Zanin, 127 mins, color, Italian with English subtitles.
Carnevalesque, sad and funny stories involving the family of a teenager son of a Socialist in provincial Italy during Fascism.
Set in Rimini, Romagna, in 1920’s-30’s.
Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film in 1975.
This film is part of the course "F2102 Italian Contemporary History in Films".
Open to students and faculty.
September 20, 2021
5 pm, Room 9A
Il Gattopardo
(The Leopard)
by Luchino Visconti (1963)
Set in Sicily, 1860, it follows the story of Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, and his family in their struggle to preserve their status amid the tumultuous social upheavals of the Risorgimento.
Based on Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s novel, it won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Festival 1963.
This film is part of the course "F2102 Italian Contemporary History in Films".
Open to students and faculty.