Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Ilaria and Francesca get into a heated discussion about their pasts and their futures. Ilaria has to deal with a pregnancy and Francesca has to either follow Vincenzo to Iceland or go her own way. It's pretty clear that he intends to take his new job.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
The friends are taking care of the paraphenalia from their days at the theater. They muse on the past and the future.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Cioni and Vincenzo are having a rather inebriated conversation in the little swimming pool on the roof. In the house, the friends are proposing some strange ideas of using up some old hallucinogens that have sat there unused.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Andrea has a surprise for his housemates. Later, they party with a bunch of friends.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Marta and Andrea find themselves alone in his room, now empty, and they remember the time when they had been together. He tells her of his plans.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Andrea continues to be mistrustful of what Marta is intimating to him. She mentions a house she is borrowing ai Ronchi (in the Ronchis). This prompted us to want to find out where this place is and why she says it in the plural. Here (link to lesson) is what we found out.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Cioni is very suspicious about Marta's true intentions toward Andrea. The others begin talking about their past relations and aspirations.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Francesca and her travelling companion have just gotten a flat tire. Learn the steps for changing a tire along with Francesca.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This documentary is about 2 brothers — the Taviani brothers — who are famous for having made many award-winning Italian movies. The short clips from their films will surely entice us to see the complete movies in the original Italian. Perhaps the most famous one is La Notte di San Lorenzo from 1982, whose English language release had the title: The Night of the Shooting Stars.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The Taviani brothers lived through the war, so they had a good feel for the terror people felt. But as kids they were also very much affected by the movies offered at the time.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The Taviani brothers talk about how, as young movie lovers, they would grab their bikes and go to whatever movie theater in the area was showing their favorite films. Then they had to go to the big city, Rome, to pitch their first documentary. They learned a valuable lesson.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
San Miniato is where the Taviani brothers were born, but it was also the birthplace of their careers in filmmaking. Their first was a documentary and right away they had some problems with censorship.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Actor Giulio Brogi talks about how his role in The Subversives mirrored his character at the time. The Taviani brothers describe how they found another actor in that film, young Lucio Dalla, the famous (and now deceased) singer-songwriter.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In nineteen sixty-nine they made a different kind of film, Under the Sign of Scorpio, and needed a special place to film it in. The whole cast, together with the directors, felt a particular sense of community both during and after the filming.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The Taviani brothers talk about how their movie Under the Sign of Scorpio was received at the Venice film festival, and about their location scouting for the film.
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