Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The students tasked by Marioni to help Matteo create a chat group, and Sara immediately puts her foot in it. At Robbo's house, things are a bit tense and little Chiara is worried about what might happen.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Eva visits an old friend, and then goes to the market with Dante for fish. She's certainly more at ease with one than with the other.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Documentary in three parts, of the famous Italian car race La Mille Miglia (the one thousand miles) with historical shots of some of the greatest drivers in the world and their cars. Fasten your seatbelts for the first part of three.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This historical footage of the Mille Miglia [thousand miles] car race from Brescia to Rome and back includes a cameo appearance by Ingrid Bergman.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Not only does the race go from Brescia to Rome, it goes back to Brescia, and the last part, uphill, is very tricky. This historical footage and commentary is priceless! Fasten your seat belt for the finish line.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
If two important works of Piero's survived the bombings during World War II, it was due to the efforts of art historians and restorers such as Ugo Procacci. In addition to the Resurrection, a wonderful painting of the Virgin Mary as she was expecting a child, "La Madonna del Parto" was saved and is now housed in the museum in Monterchi, Arezzo.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
This documentary opens with some lines from a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini, “10 giugno” from 1962. The famous filmmaker and poet talks about his life, beginning with his troubled relationship with his father.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini talks about his first book of poetry and what he realized about his country when it was published in 1942. He explains why reviewers wouldn't touch it.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini talks about the Italian language and how it has been transformed over the years.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini talks about how artists are always controversial. They are a living protest. His protest involves language and national identity.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Pasolini talks about how he moved from literature to cinema, and how his ideas about language changed. He talked about providing Italians with an opportunity to demonstrate racism, perhaps for the first time, with his movie, Accattone.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
In this segment, we're on the set with Pasolini as he shouts directions to Totò through his megaphone, and at the same time discusses the shoot with his crew. Naturally, authenticity often means people speak over each other, so it's hard to understand what is said. Then, Pasolini is asked by a journalist about his views on neorealism and here, the speech is clearer (and interesting), so don't give up!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Pasolini is asked what he thinks about progress and development. He is also asked about the inspiration he seems to have taken from subjects of the New Testament of the Bible.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Pasolini doesn't want to talk about his enemies, but does talk about the people he loves the most: simple folk, who might not have even finished grade school. For his early films, he took inspiration from Antonio Gramsci.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
In a Q & A, Pasolini explains to a journalist what he means when he refers to the elite. In another clip, he asks people on the beach about sex.
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