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Lecture

The Italian Program and the Circolo italiano at SDSU present
A CONVERSATION WITH SOPRANO INDRA THOMAS
Thursday April 17 at 2pm - SDSU BA 441

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Film

The San Diego Italian Film Festival and Allied Advertising, PR, invite all
teachers and students to a FREE SCREENING by invitation of

MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD (Mio Fratello è Figlio Unico, 2007),
on Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at 7 p.m. at the Landmark Theater’s Hillcrest Cinemas in Hillcrest, 3965 Fourth Ave., San Diego, between Washington and University. There is underground parking. The theater will validate. 

Each ticket provides free entry for two people. NB:  While the ticket grants permission to enter, it does not guarantee a seat, so please come to the theater early. View ticket

For further information please contact The San Diego Italian Film Festival at SDItFF@GMAIL.COM

MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD is a politically charged family drama set in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s - think "The Best of Youth" (director Daniele Luchetti collaborated with that epic film's writers) at a more butt-friendly running time. The focus is on Accio (Elio Germano), who rebels against his older brother Manrico (Riccardo Scamarcio), a Communist leader in their small Italian town, by enlisting with the local fascists. Accio also loves his brother's girlfriend (Diane Fleri). Manrico eventually becomes disillusioned with politics, but Accio drifts over to the left with tragic results in this intelligent, well-acted movie. In Italian with English subtitles. Running time: 100 minutes. Not rated (violence, sexuality).

Daniele Luchetti's MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD scored five David di Donatello (the Italian Oscar) awards. The film earned Elio Germano (left photo, bottom) a best actor trophy for his role as a young man who gets involved in Italy’s neo-Fascist movement, in addition to awards for best screenplay (Luchetti, Stefano Rulli, and Sandro Petraglia), best supporting actress (Angela Finocchiaro), best editing (Mirco Garrone), and best sound (Bruno Pupparo).

Contest

The San Diego Italian Film Festival announces a FILM/VIDEO CONTEST for 2008. Winning films will be screened at the Festival in October 2008 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.

$3,500 in prizes. Deadline for submission September 1st 2008.

Three Entry Categories and Prizes:

I.      Senior in High School or below in June 2008. Italian Theme. (3 prizes)
II.     Freshman in College or above in June 2008. Italian Theme. (3 prizes)
III.    Open to anyone. Ferrari motors theme (in celebration of Ferrari 60th
birthday) (1 prize)

For application and information write to SDItFF@GMAIL.COM

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Film

The San Diego Italian Film Festival is coming back to MoPA in Balboa Park with one free film a month (all start at 7pm)
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Ginger and Cinnamon  (Dillo con Parole Mie),Thursday, February 14
While vacationing on the Greek "Isle of Love", a repressed 30 year old Stefania reluctantly plays chaperon to her precocious 14 year old niece, Meggy, who plans to lose her virginity before the summer is over.

Agatha & the storm (Agata e la Tempesta), Thursday, March 6                     
A swirl of pop-art color, madcap magic, and the bittersweet call of life and love suddenly take the mature, ravishing, self-reliant Agata by storm. When Agata, the popular bookshop proprietor and dispenser of sunny wisdom in the form of books, is suddenly wooed by a man almost half her age, her electricity hits high-voltage.

Light of my eyes (Luce dei miei Occhi), Thursday, April 3
Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the pulp science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance encounter with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been lacking in his detached existence.

CLASSIC AND MARVELOUS CINEMA PARADISO, Thurs, May 8, 7pm
A delightful look at the life and times of cinema in a small Sicilian town in the early 1950s. A young boy becomes apprentice to a projectionist whose lessons bridge everyday life with life on celluloid.

All films are free, donations welcome. Films introduced and discussions led by Prof. C. Clò, SDSU and Prof. P. Verdicchio, UCSD.

Special thanks to the IIC, Mopa and the Linnie Cooper Foundation

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Cinema Club at the Italian Community Center

In the region

Cinema Italian Style – New Films from Italy in L.A. http://www.cinemaitalianstyle.org/