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… Continue reading Cinemasud – The First Italian Film Festival in San Diego
Tag: Drama
From Cinemasud San Diego: My brother in-law – Mio Cognato (Alessandro Piva – 2003)
Friday October 11, 2007 Cinemasud discretely opens the doors. At the Museum of Photographic Arts of Balboa Park, we find all the organizers calm yet excited personally welcoming the guests. Victor and his big smile impossible to miss. Black-dressed, he lost some weight I guess, maybe due to some insomnia and certainly a lot of… Continue reading From Cinemasud San Diego: My brother in-law – Mio Cognato (Alessandro Piva – 2003)
Golden Door – Nuovomondo (Emanuele Crialese – 2006)
The latest film by director Emanuele Crialese (who also did 2002 Respiro) is a fine example of modern Italian cinema at its best – amazing photography, supported by clever screenplay and pounding soundtrack that will keep you relishing the experience days after watching. [youtube width=”615″ height=”461″]http://youtu.be/-NkoJXHiQTc[/youtube] The film vividly tells the story of Italian emigration… Continue reading Golden Door – Nuovomondo (Emanuele Crialese – 2006)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica – 1952)
In one of the greatest accomplishments of the Neorealist film movement, Vittorio De Sica dedicates this film to his father and effectively captures the grim life of the elderly in post-war Italy. The film paints a vividly emotional picture of Umberto D. (Carlo Battisti non-proessional actor – a university professor from Florence), an older man… Continue reading Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica – 1952)
Fists in the Pocket – I Pugni in Tasca (Marco Bellocchio – 1965)
Marco Bellocchio, Italy’s second generation of film directors after WW2, highly influenced by the British cinema, provides in his film debut a counter and radical approach to the bourgeois family values, religion and the Neo-realism movement. Charged with the director’s autobiographical elements, over the edge acting style and Ennio Morricone’s circular vocal treatments – the… Continue reading Fists in the Pocket – I Pugni in Tasca (Marco Bellocchio – 1965)