Emanuele Caruso, 2018 La terra buona (The Good Place) (Italy, 2018, 110 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Emanuele Caruso Written by Emanuele Caruso and Marco Domenicale Starring Lorenzo Pedrotti, Fabrizio Ferracane, Viola Sartoretto, Cristian Di Sante Followed by a Q&A with director Emanuele Caruso The film is inspired by true events. The largest wilderness zone in Europe…
A biopic that offers an intimate insight into the family life of Antonin Dvorak who wrote his Cello Concerto while in New York City. The third movement was a tribute to his sister-in-law, Josefína, who had written him a letter saying she was seriously ill. Director: Jaroslav Brabec, 2015, 102 min, Czech Republic. In Czech with English subtitles. Free and…
Jonas Carpignano (2015) This screening is part of the NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts Fall 2018 Film Series The Immigrant Experience: Visions of Diaspora on Film in America and Abroad. As immigration ignites new conversations in the U.S., it continues to be a divisive issue across the globe. This film series explores the experiences of people who leave…
Screening details This event will recur Every Day until Nov. 8, 2018. Ruth Kaaserer is the recipient of the 2017 Erste Bank's ExtraVALUE Film Award, which she received for Gwendolyn at the 2017 Viennale. On the occasion of her residency at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Deutsches Haus co-presents together with Anthology Film Archives, Erste Bank, and the Austrian Cultural Forum two screenings of Gwendolyn (2017), on Wednesday, November 7,…
STILL FROM MEMORIES (SYLVIA SCHEDELBAUER, GERMANY/JAPAN, 2004) Experimental films by Aykan Safoğlu & Sylvia Schedelbauer Wednesday, November 7 at 6:00 pm Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor Aykan Safoğlu (Germany/Turkey) and Sylvia Schedelbauer (Germany/Japan) present a selection of their archival footage films encompassing a Turkish homage to James Baldwin and a retrieval of unremembered interracial intimacy. Working across film, photography and performance, Aykan Safoğlu makes…
A Film Series Presented by the Columbia Maison Française, co-sponsored by School of the Arts and curated by Nora Philippe with the participation of Maboula Soumahoro Films are free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English. France doesn’t have an equivalent word for speaking about “blackness” and has just removed the word “race” from its Constitution. However, a…
(Enrico Ventrice, 2018) Via da noi (Documentary, Italy, 53 min.) In ENGLISH and ITALIAN with English subtitles Produced by Global Vision Group in collaboration with Rai Cinema A film by Elena A. Perazzini Directed by Enrico Ventrice Followed by a conversation with Elena A. Perazzini. Moderated by Paolo Pellecchia (CUNY). With the participation of Gianluca Galletto (DG Advisors), scientist Alessandra…
A film by Rokhaya Diallo (2013, 52 min.) Screening followed by a discussion with Fredrick Harris, Nora Philippe and Maboula Soumahoro Fifty years after the Civil Rights March in Washington DC and the “dream” of Martin Luther King, thirty years after the “March for Equality and against Racism” in France, Diallo follows a group of young Americans who come to…
In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Mamma Roma (Italy, 1962, 110 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo Introduced by Rebecca Falkoff, NYU. Anna Magnani is Mamma Roma, a middle-aged prostitute who attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for her son’s sake. An unflinching…
With an introduction by Damion Searls, whose translation into English of Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries recently was published by New York Review Books -- German writer Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side for several years in the 1960s. The publisher Harcourt Brace had hired him as a textbook editor for their German-language school book editions, which allowed him to stay in…
A film by Sylvaine Dampierre (2009, 90 min.). Screening followed by Q&A with director Sylvaine Dampierre, Kim Hall, and Nora Philippe. To view the trailer, click here. This is part of the film series "Blackness in French and Francophone Film" organized by the Columbia Maison Française and co-sponsored by the School of the Arts. In this personal journey through the memory…
A film by Theresa Traore Dahlberg (2016, 80 min.). Screening followed by Q&A with director Theresa Traore Dahlberg, Abosede George, and Nora Phliippe To RSVP, please click here. To view the trailer, click here. Part of the film series "Blackness in French and Francophone Film" organized by the Columbia Maison Française and co-sponsored by the School of the Arts. A group of…
Giuseppe De Santis (1949) In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice) (Italy, 1949, 109 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Giuseppe De Santis Starring Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling Introduced by Jenny McPhee, NYU. In Northern Italy’s Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker (Silvana Mangano) falls in with a…
Short Films from the Naples Film Festival In collaboration with the Naples Film Festival. The following films were selected specifically for Casa Italiana by a special jury made up of graduate and Ph.D. students of the NYU Department of Italian Studies: Così in terra by Pier Lorenzo Pisano (Ita, 2018, 13') Roberto Citran, one of the most talented actors in…
A film by Tamar Tal Anati. Italy, November 1943. The Italian Social Republic orders the arrest of all Jews present on its territory. A Florentine family, the Gnagnattis, composed of parents, four children and two grandmothers, flees the first round up in the city and seeks refuge on the mountains. The brothers spent months hiding in a cave in the Tuscan…