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Napoli - Lanificio25

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy Neapolitan

Pupia tv presents the “Lanificio25”, a multipurpose space in Naples devoted to the arts and performing arts. There you will find all kinds of music, theater, dance, exhibitions, and workshops.

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Gianluigi and Sergio Bonelli both wrote Tex stories, but they had different approaches, and their relationship was complex on a personal level. We learn about what inspired the images of the countryside where Tex and Carson would roam.

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Caption 39 [en]: the right space and the right dignity.
Caption 39 [it]: il giusto spazio e la giusta dignità.

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 10

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Still on the beach, Pasolini asks more people their opinions on divorce, which became legal in 1970. The second part of this segment is part of a 1969 episode of Processo alla tappa, a TV talk show devoted to the Giro d'Italia (the Tour of Italy), a famous, 21-stage bike race.

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Caption 41 [it]: Lei? -A me pure piace il divorzio perché mi piace l'indipendenza. -Brava.
Caption 41 [en]: You? -I like divorce, too, because I like independence. -Good for you.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 22

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Franca's career is going nicely, and Mimmo decides that he'll do whatever they want him to: Sing, dance, act...

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Caption 37 [it]: Che poi a me Milano piace.
Caption 37 [en]: Besides, I like Milan.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 20

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Franca was very skeptical about doing the broadcast with Mimmo, but ends up on the radio with him. There's one word to describe them: bravissimi! Remembering that these performances were live, not taped makes it all the more exciting to watch.

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Caption 38 [it]: Pure io mangio e mi piace tanto.
Caption 38 [en]: I do too and I like it a lot

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 17

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico isn't very adept at keeping his emotions, including jealousy, in check, and at the dinner party, he allows them to get the better of him. But there are all kinds of people at that party, and they aren't all against him.

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Caption 52 [it]: Alle donne piace il coraggio.
Caption 52 [en]: Women like courage.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 16

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico keeps telling his story, fast-forwarding a bit, and focuses on when he got a new place to live with his friends helping him, and meeting up with Franca again.

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Caption 59 [it]: Scusa, se Franca ti piace.
Caption 59 [en]: Excuse me, if you like Franca.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

In Sicily, at one time, horses would work in the sulfur mines and slowly become blind. The story is told through a Sicilian ballad, sung by Domenico Modugno. Mimì's mother sits with him as he prepared his bags, but she struggles to understand why he would want to leave. See complete lyrics (in Sicilian) here.

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Caption 38 [it]: Cu si piace si piglia e cu nun si piace se lassa [pugliese: chi si piace si piglia e chi non si piace si lascia].
Caption 38 [en]: You take whomever you like and you leave the one you don't like.

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 11

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Giuseppe Pitrè loved attending performances of chivalric folk plays in Palermo. This segment follows a marionette player at Palermo's Opera dei Pupi, the same theater where Pitrè went to see folk epics.

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Caption 67 [it]: Chissa 'a [questa la] cosa che mi piace di più.
Caption 67 [en]: This is what I like the best.

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Pitrè's mission was to conserve and safeguard the traditions of his people, the Sicilians, and to keep the roots alive. Looking at religious traditions is one important way to do this.

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Caption 38 [en]: We judge it by its capacity to give space to everyone,
Caption 38 [it]: La valutiamo dalla capacità che ha di dare spazio a tutti,

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Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 18

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman, two of the most important film directors in international cinema, discuss a joint project. They come from completely different worlds, but have some important points in common. Fellini's film, Satyricon is in the spotlight at the Venice Film Festival of 1969.

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Caption 22 [it]: No, ma che cosa ti piace in Bergman?
Caption 22 [en]: No, but what do you like in Bergman?

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Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 17

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Italian TV is broadcasting from the set of Fellini's Satyricon in Cinecittà as well as from the show, Canzonissima, a well-known variety TV show being hosted in this case, by Mina (one of Italy's most famous pop singers).

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Caption 48 [en]: So, now we're going into another space close by, I'll climb over the rubble...
Caption 48 [it]: Dunque, adesso andiamo in un altro ambiente qui vicino, io supero le macerie...

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Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 7

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Fellini is at Cannes for the festival and screening of La Dolce Vita. He tells of his ironic encounters with unusual characters, who complain about the oddity of Fellini's movie characters.

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Caption 19 [it]: mi piace passeggiare sulla Croisette.
Caption 19 [en]: I like walking on the Croisette.

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That's Italy - Episode 2 - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Donatella Versace, go-to designer for movie stars and rock stars, talks about her love of color, designing the various Versace collections, and the legacy of her brother.

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Caption 25 [it]: Adesso mi piace da morire fare l'uomo Versace,
Caption 25 [en]: Now doing Versace Man is something I love to death,

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Claudio Capotondi - Scultore - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

"Innercore" is the title, inspired by an article in the New York Times, of Claudio Capotondi's masterpiece. He talks about the significance of the sculpture, and about the special kind of stone he used to make it.

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Caption 15 [en]: about rising in space.
Caption 15 [it]: della lievitazione nello spazio.

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