Tornando a casa – Returning Home (Vincenzo Marra – 2001)
Sunday October 13, 2007 Cinemasud continues its path.
CinemaSud – The First Italian Film Festival in San Diego
Cinemasud is now performing at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, San Diego.
Mio cognato – My Brother-in-Law (Alessandro Piva – 2003)
Friday October 11, 2007
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.
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.
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.
Story of a Love Affair – Cronaca di un amore (Michelangelo Antonioni – 1950)
Rainy dark streets, unfulfilled love, alienated ambience, restless camera movement and mimialistic soundtrack come together here in Michelangelo Antonioni’s first full-length feature film.
Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi – 1962)
In this masterpiece classic director Francesco Rositells the story of Salvatore Giuliano, a famous Sicilian gangster that during the mid-40’s collaborated with a Sicilian separatist group, Movement for the Independence of Sicily (MIS), with close ties to the Mafia engaging with small-scale attacks on government and police targets.