MEET THE ARTIST: FAUSTO ROMA – NEW START TIME !
On the occasion of the closing of Fausto Roma. On the Traces of Jazz, a solo exhibition on display at the Italian Cultural Institute, the painter, sculptor and visual artist, who lives and works near Frosinone, in the Lazio region, will be in conversation with art critics Peter Frank and Alfio Borghese, co-curators of his Los […]
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PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The Palm Springs International Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing the work of exceptional, new and emerging talents as well as the celebrated work of established directors. This year the 27th edition of the Festival once again features Italian cinema, co-productions and Italian-language films, including: My Mother (Mia madre, 106’) by Nanni Moretti, Sworn Virgin […]
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ONCE UPON A TIME… IN LA
Meet Screenwriter Sergio Donati Meet Once Upon a Time in the West’s screenwriter Sergio Donati. In conversation with Alessandro Ago Director of Programming and Special Projects, USC School of Cinematic Arts Born in Rome, Donati started as a crime novel writer and had some of his books optioned for film. He is well-known for his […]
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FRANCO MARROCCO: THE RED STUDIO & OTHER WORKS
A solo exhibition curated by Giovanni Iovane & Marisa Caichiolo. “The red studio evokes a famous painting by Henri Matisse, The Red Studio (L’atelier rouge, 1911), currently exhibited at New York’s MoMA. In English the word “studio” refers to the working space where a painter, a photographer or a sculptor brings his or her creation […]
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SCULPTURE SYMPOSIA 1965/2015: GIO POMODORO’S FOLLA
On the occasion of the FAR-SITED Sculpture Symposia 1965/2015 exhibition and initiative at the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, the IIC hosts a special evening dedicated to one of the two sculptures that can be found in its Patio Mariotti, Folla by Gio Pomodoro. This work and the artist who created have […]
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NATURE, ART & HABITAT IN THE TALEGGIO VALLEY
Participants in the Nature, Art & Habitat in Taleggio Valley, Bergamo residency summer program will talk about their experience presenting the projects they worked aimed aiming to engender an integrated vision on nature and culture.
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YOUTH by Paolo Sorrentino (2h 4min)
From Paolo Sorrentino, the internationally renowned writer/director of Italy’s Oscar-winning foreign language film The Great Beauty, comes a poignant tale of how we each find our own passion in life. Michael Caine plays Fred, a famous English composer/conductor, and Harvey Keitel plays Mick, a veteran American director anxious to launch one more film. They are […]
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SOCIAL IN THE WORLD, LOS ANGELES 2015
The 5th edition of the Film Festival dedicated to socially committed cinema returns to LA! The evening will include the screenings of selected short films. Among these, Cerchi d’Acqua by Giada Sara Barbieri, winner of the Social World Film Festival Instant Contest. The event is organized in collaboration with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts […]
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The Energy of Migration in Captivity: A View from Italy
The debut of US the exhibition by Mario Badagliacca, featuring a series of 31 photographs of migrants from different backgrounds detained in Centers for Identification and Expulsion (CIE) in Italy. www.commonexperience.sdsu.edu
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THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher (1h 52 min)
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and a standout at the New York Film Festival, young Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s appealing, richly textured drama centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by the simultaneous arrival […]
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