From Los Angeles Independent Festival in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles.
Great excitement for this movie which is again from and about Sardinia. The fact that the director was there presenting the film and holding the discussion makes it even more interesting.
Sonetaula is a book by Giuseppe Fiori that he recently re-wrote [...]
Posted by Laura Bianconcini on 08.12.2008 at 1:51 am// Tagged: Drama, Events, Italian Cinema, Neorealism, Regional Cinema, Romance , Salvatore Mereu, sardinia
The opening of the film festival last week was extremely successful. We started with the screening of The Job – Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi – 1961). The film drew a wonderful audience that stayed for the post-screening discussion that went around 45 minutes of active questions that showed me how engaged the audience was with [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 04.05.2008 at 5:08 pm// Tagged: Events, News , commedia all'italiana, Italian film festival, monicelli, olmi, Ossining
Cinemasud is now performing at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, San Diego.
A bit about the festival and its goals (description is from the Italian Cinema Sud site).
Cinema Sud, starting its worldwide tour with the screening of the documentary Détour De Seta at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, has been organized [...]
Posted by Laura Bianconcini on 10.20.2007 at 7:08 am// Tagged: Entertainment, Events, Italian Cinema, Modern Italian Cinema, News , cineamsud, Drama, Entertainment
We enter the VIP lounge and start a fight for the food. The buffet is overcrowded, as it’s already 10pm. Hands grabbing us from every side like uncontrollable tentacles, hard to keep away, so I decide to hit the bar and get some wine, leaving Shlomi and Odelia to the food mission.
After drinking some wine [...]
Posted by Laura Bianconcini on 02.21.2007 at 9:45 pm// Tagged: Drama, Entertainment, Events, Italian Cinema, Modern Italian Cinema, News , Documentary, Drama, Entertainment, Italian Cinema, Los angeles-Italia film festival, mimmo calopresti