Thank you for making our Fall 15 film screening a success! Enjoy your Spring semester (and btw, in Florida it was the first time I was able to call it Spring Semester, it has always been Winter Semester, to me... and I had due cause to call it Winter semester...:-)

Buona Befana a tutti e Buon 2016!

Italian Film Screening

FALL 2015

Wednesday, October 28, starting at 3:00 pm

GRACE ALLEN ROOM, USF Library

The Spaghetti Western and its Legacy

Looking for some excitement before Halloween?

Come and enjoy these suspenseful and spine-chilling films by Italian, American, and Japanese directors! Info: fcolleoni@usf.edu

Django (Italy, 1965, 92 min., In Italian with Eng. subtitles)

by Sergio Corbucci

Django Unchained (USA, 2012, 165 min., in English)

by Quentin Tarantino

Sukiyaki Western Django (Japan, 2007, 121 min., in English)

by Takashi Miike

In March 2015 we organized a short film festival devoted to Italian film director Mario Monicelli and to his collaboration with actor Marcello Mastroianni. It was very successful. We miss both Mario and Marcello, two Italians we loved!

Aggiungi didascalia

End of Spring Semester: we made it!

Ciao a tutti, 

The Great Beauty, 2013, P. Sorrentino

Well, the April 2014 screening of LA GRANDE BELLEZZA (2013) was a successful one, not just because you guys came to the movie night, but because your comments were so clever, thought-provoking, profound!
Paolo Sorrentino's film THE GREAT BEAUTY, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film 2014, also gave us the opportunity to expand our discussions in our MAFIA IN THE MOVIES class. 
We compared it with THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE (Le conseguenze dell'amore, 2004), also by Sorrentino. Moreover, we made connections with Garrone's GOMORRAH (2008), since both filmmakers are interested in Naples, an extremely complex, problematic and exceptionally creative city.
As usual, movies give us a lot to think about and discuss about, this is why we like them so much!!!
Have a great summer and enjoy your well-deserved vacation!
IFS