AFI Fest 2018
AFI FEST by Audi is the American Film Institute’s annual free celebration of international cinema from modern masters and emerging filmmakers, featuring nightly red-carpet galas, special screenings, conversations and tributes in Hollywood. Its 2018 World Cinema section includes the following Italian movies: Daughter of Mine (Italy, Germany, Switzerland, 2018 100 min.)Directed by Laura Bispuri. Cast: Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, […]
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W di Walter
Casa Italiana di Las Vegas, in collaboration with the Lecco Film Commission and the West Charleston Library, presents a special screening of W di Walter (2013): a movie about the famous Italian mountain climber, explorer and journalist Walter Bonatti introduced by the Vice President of the Lecco Film Commission, Marta Soligo. The movie is the first […]
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The Cremona Quartet in concert
The Cremona Quartet, one of the most exciting chamber ensembles on the international stages, will play at the Maestro Chamber Music Society in Santa Monica (Nov. 3) and the Musco Center for the Arts in Orange (Nov 4). Regularly invited to perform at the most important festivals and concert seasons across Europe, North and South […]
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Discovering the Passionate Films of Luchino Visconti
This touring retrospective series arrives at Films at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Luchino Visconti, a member of Italian nobility, belonged to the Italian Communist Party during World War II. He was openly gay, staunchly Catholic, and inhabited a complicated, paradoxical, role in Italian cinema culture. A leader in the Neorealism movement, he also worked […]
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Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife
What did ancient Greeks believe would happen to them after they died? Organized around a monumental funerary vessel, on loan from National Archaeological Museum in Naples and recently conserved at the Getty Villa, this exhibition explores depictions of the Underworld in the art of Greece and Southern Italy. Beyond tales of famous wrongdoers and rulers […]
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The Renaissance Nude
Inspired by a renewed interest in classical sculpture and closer study of nature, Renaissance artists made the nude body ever more vibrant, lifelike, and central to their practice. Yet, pious European Renaissance society was troubled by the nude and its new sensuality—a conflicted response echoed in the world today, where images of nudity have become […]
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POP: La Traviata
Pacific Opera Project (POP) joins forces with The Occidental College Glee Club for two performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata. Following a wonderful experience together producing The Rake’s Progress in 2016, the collaboration allows POP to present Verdi’s masterpiece with a more than 50-member chorus of Occidental Glee Club students and a POP professional chorus, plus […]
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Italy in a day
One day in October 2013, over 45,000 Italians recorded short videos of their daily lives. The videos were collected by the director Gabriele Salvatores and edited together to form a portrait of a troubled but vibrant country. Organized by the Italian Cultural & Community Center in collaboration with the Italian General Consuate of Houston and the Italian […]
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New Italian Migrations to the United States
Authors Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra present New Italian Migrations to the United States, a two-volume collection that explores Italian immigration to the United States from 1945 to the present day. The books offer a radical rethinking of the history of Italian Americans by focusing on immigration to the United States over the last […]
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Italian-Swiss Movie Night
Screening of the Italian-Swiss film Finding Camille (Cercando Camille, 2017, 1h 33m) and the short film Invisible Trajectories (Traiettorie Invisibili, 2010, 14m). The Swiss-Italian director Bindu de Stoppani is back to talk about father-daughter relationships in her second feature film, Finding Camille, presented at the 12th Rome Film Fest as part of the Alice nella […]
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