Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice)

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

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…

41° Parallelo

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

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…

Shalom Italia

Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY 25 W 43rd St #17, New York, NY, United States

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…

Screening of Brooklyn (dir. John Crowley)

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

  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 their homeland seeking a better life and new opportunities. From the U.S. to Italy and Germany, these films portray the values and aspirations, dreams and nightmares associated with the places where immigrants and refugees settle. As much as…

Quanto Basta

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

N.I.C.E. Opening Night New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E.) Film Festival celebrates its 28th edition in the United States. Quanto Basta (As Needed) (Italy, 2018, 92 min.) Directed by Francesco Falaschi Screening to be followed by Q&A with Francesco Falaschi in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU). Francesco Falaschi addresses the issue of Asperger syndrome by showing the difficulties faced by those…

Tea with Mussolini

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

N.I.C.E. Opening Night New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E.) Film Festival celebrates its 28th edition in the United States. Tea with Mussolini (Italy/UK, 1999, 117 min.) Directed by Franco Zeffirelli Starring Cher, Judy Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin The touch of Maestro Zeffirelli can be seen through the frescoes of Florence in the 1930’s, although the atmosphere is enchanting,…

Ladri di biciclette [Bicycle Thieves]

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Vittorio De Sica (1948) In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Ladri di biciclette (Italy, 1948, 89 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Vittorio De Sica Starring Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola Introduced by Ara Merjian, NYU. Hailed as one of the greatest movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948) defined an era in cinema.…

Film: Rafiki

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

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. Kena helps her father John Mwaura run a small convenience store in Nairobi as he campaigns for a local election. Kena lives with her mother, who isn't really on speaking terms with John. Kena starts…

A Retrospective of Pawel Pawlikowski’s films

Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New York

Since making his first film nearly 30 years ago, Academy Award–winning director Pawel Pawlikowski has established himself as one of the most accomplished and adventurous filmmakers working today. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he emigrated to England as a teenager, and made his first films there—documentaries with peripatetic themes and titles (From Moscow to Pietushki: A Journey with Benedict Yerofeyev, Dostoevsky's…

Spanish Cinema Days | Film Screening: The fury of a patient man

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York, United States

The Fury of a Patient Man (Raúl Arévalo / Spain / 2016 / 92 min) Synopsis Madrid, August 2007. Curro (Luis Callejo) is the only one arrested for the robbery of a jewelry store. Eight years later, his girlfriend Ana and their son are waiting for Curro to get out of prison. Jose is a solitary and reserved man who…