Cinema Little Italy: We’ll Meet Tomorrow by Andrea Zaccariello
Every Saturday night, all summer, Italian Films with English subtitles will be screened outdoors in San Diego Little Italy’s Amici Park amphitheater (Date and State streets) through August 27th. Santilli is looking for a lucky break to change his life. In the south of Italy there is a town whose entire population is over eighty. […]
Read moreNanni Moretti: Mia Madre in Los Angeles
The acclaimed film Mia Madre (My Mother, 2015, 107 min) will open in Los Angeles on August 26 at Laemmle’s Royal Theatre in West L.A., Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 in Pasadena and Laemmle’s Town Center 5 in Encino. Moretti finds comedy and pathos in the story of Margherita, a harried film director (Margherita Buy, A Five Star Life) […]
Read moreRossini Summer Series: Matilde di Shabran
Matilde di Shabran (Matilde of Shabran, 2012, 220 min) is the fourth opera of this special screening series dedicated to Gioachino Rossini thanks to a new collaboration between the IIC and the Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) in Pesaro, Italy. Directed by Mario Martone, Matilde di Shabran (Matilde of Shabran, 2012, 220 min) features some of Rossini’s most outrageously […]
Read moreEttore Scola: Ugly, Dirty and Bad
Ettore Scola earned a Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for this tragicomic portrait of a very dysfunctional family. Patriarch/slumlord Giacinto Mazzatella (Nino Manfredi) lives in a Roman ghetto, sharing a tiny shack with a legion of relatives. Giacinto has money from an accident settlement, but doesn’t share it with his family; when […]
Read moreCinema Little Italy: It May Be Love But It Doesn’t Show by Salvatore Ficarra and Valentino Picone
Every Saturday night, all summer, Italian Films with English subtitles will be screened outdoors in San Diego Little Italy’s Amici Park amphitheater (Date and State streets) through August 27th. Salvo and Valentino, childhood friends, are partners in owning a colorful tourist bus. Salvo is an enterprising bachelor, he has just recruited as an a assitant […]
Read more12th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival
A showcase of the best and brightest short films from around the globe, including Italy! www.hollyshorts.com
Read moreRossini Summer Opera Series: La Gazza Ladra
La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie, 2007, 201 min)is the third opera of this special screening series dedicated to Gioachino Rossini thanks to a new collaboration between the IIC and the Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) in Pesaro, Italy. With La Gazza Ladra Rossini succeeds in mixing comic, sentimental and dramatic elements, thus achieving a new music style […]
Read moreCinema Little Italy: We Loved Each Other So Much by Ettore Scola
Every Saturday night, all summer, Italian Films with English subtitles will be screened outdoors in San Diego Little Italy’s Amici Park amphitheater (Date and State streets) through August 27th. Three partisans, inseparable friends while fighting the Nazis, must subsequently deal with disillusionment. This year the great director Scola passed away. Having made close to 40 […]
Read moreRossini Summer Opera Series: Ciro in Babilonia
Ciro in Babilonia (Cyrus in Babylon, 2012, 165 min) is the second opera of this special screening series dedicated to Gioachino Rossini thanks to a special collaboration between the IIC and the Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) in Pesaro, Italy. The Biblical story of Belshazzar’s hubristic arrogance, set against the valor of the young Cyrus, provided the […]
Read moreCinema Little Italy: The Legendary Giulia by Edoardo Leo
Every Saturday night, all summer, Italian Films with English subtitles will be screened outdoors in San Diego Little Italy’s Amici Park amphitheater (Date and State streets) through August 27th. Claudio, Diego and Fausto decide to purchase a country vacation home together in an area controlled by the Camorra. If they would have stopped to think about why the […]
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