Italian Film Festival USA : Phoenix
The Italian Film Festival USA is held in 12 cities throughout the US featuring the most recent Italian films in locations where Italian cinema is not often shown. The 2016 edition brings you the best line-up of contemporary Italian cinema with films from award-winning directors, as well as debut films from exciting new talent. Enjoy […]
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Ezio Gribaudo: Theaters of Memory and IIC Lifetime Achievement Award
A solo exhibition of Ezio Gribaudo, an internationally recognized artist and art publisher, curated by Professor Victoria Surliuga. Gribaudo will receive the IIC Lifetime Achievement Award that recognizes Italian excellency in the world and the honorary citizenship of the City of Lubbock during the private preview of the show on March 31. This exhibition brings […]
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Roman Mosaics Across the Empire
Roman decor was unique for the elaborate mosaic floors that enlivened interior spaces and reflected the cultural ambitions of wealthy patrons. Drawn primarily from the Getty Museum’s collection, this exhibition presents the artistry of mosaics as well as the contexts of their discovery across Rome’s expanding empire—from its center in Italy to major […]
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Nanni Moretti: Mia Madre
A screening of the film Mia Madre by Nanni Moretti (2015, 106 min.), presented within the series Reel Talk by the film critic Stephen Farber, President Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and a discussion with Professor Federico Pacchioni, Associate Professor of Italian, Chapman University and author of History of Italian Cinema. Landmark’s Regent Theatre 1045 Broxton […]
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Feel the Tuscan Breeze
An introduction to Tuscany’s “Silver Coast” with a taste of Tuscan specialties and their award winning wines. For IIC members and invitation only. www.enit.it
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Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
Puccini’s cherished music expresses the heartbreak of a naive young woman who commits herself to a man unworthy of her loyalty. Soprano Ana María Martínez returns as the beloved geisha, one of her signature roles. A love that knows no boundaries goes horribly wrong in a fateful meeting of East and West. What begins as […]
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JOE MANTEGNA READS HERCULES BY GABRIELE TINTI
Poetry reading by actor Joe Mantegna in front of The Hope Herakles (Hercules) a Roman, 2nd- or 3rd-century marble sculpture copy after a Greek original of circa 370–350 B.C. by Skopas that is part of the William Randolph Hearst Collection at LACMA. Hercules, hero and demigod of Greek mythology, the strongest of men, is sung by […]
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BUSINESS & CULTURE: AN ITALIAN PROSPECTIVE
This free symposium open to students and the general public brings together innovative business leaders who are working at the crossroads of Italy and the US to share stories and engage with new challenges and ideas. This series of presentations with distinguished speakers representing film, architecture, design, agriculture and other industries from California and Italy. The […]
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REMEMBERING GIORGIO BASSANI
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, the IIC pays tribute to the great novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual, Giorgio Bassani and his book The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini). The novel chronicles the relationships between the narrator and the children of the Finzi-Continis, a Jewish family in Ferrara, […]
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIOACHINO ROSSINI!
A special birthday celebration for one of the greatest Italian opera composers with the presentation of the Rossini Opera Festival which is held every summer in Rossini’s hometown, Pesaro, located in the central region of Marche region. LA based soprano Elisabetta Russo who studied with ROF Artistic Director, Maestro Alberto Zedda at the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, […]
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