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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 13

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Italy

Pier Paolo Pasolini discusses the effects Fascism had on Italy. He talks about the city of Sabaudia, built by the fascist government on the reclaimed marshland of the ancient Pontine Marshes (Agro Pontino) and how later, what took hold was the culture of consumerism.

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Caption 37 [it]: che in fondo non ce ne siamo resi conto;
Caption 37 [en]: that deep down we didn't realize it;

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 5

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.

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Caption 17 [it]: Ma neanche questa è, in fondo, una spiegazione totale.
Caption 17 [en]: But not even this, after all, is a total explanation.

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 2

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.

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Caption 24 [it]: In fondo, io ho preso il Friuli
Caption 24 [en]: All in all, I chose Friuli

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La pittura più bella del mondo - La Resurrezione di Piero della Francesca - Part 15

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.

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Caption 79 [it]: [Opera realizzata con il sostegno della Regione Lazio- Fondo regionale per il cinema e l'audiovisivo]
Caption 79 [en]: [A work created with the support of the Lazio Region - Regional Fund for cinema and audiovisuals]

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Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 11

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Inti, who was the 9-year-old grandson of Giuliano and Vera, went to see them as they were filming in China. They put him to work and the experience had a huge influence on him.

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Caption 30 [it]: nell'altro in fondo c'era qui messo [sic] il trono
Caption 30 [en]: in the other one, at the end, the throne was placed

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 21

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

For the radio show, Mimmo sings a very sad song, based on a story he had read in the newspaper. Note: The images of the event may be disturbing. This broadcast was one of the last Mimmo and Franca would be doing, and they talk about the immediate future as they walk home.

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Caption 33 [it]: E in fondo lavoriamo insieme, no?
Caption 33 [en]: After all, we work together, right?

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 25

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

This is the final installment of the documentary dedicated to the Taviani brothers. It concludes as they do some location scouting in the marvelous old city of Montepulciano for Maraviglioso Boccaccio (Wondrous Boccaccio), a 2015 film. Vittorio Taviani died in 2015 at the age of 88, and Paolo is 89 and still making films.

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Caption 42 [it]: Ah, perché ha la curva la verso il fondo? -Sì.
Caption 42 [en]: Ah, because there's a curve there, towards the end? -Yes.

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 24

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

It's not often that two people, let alone brothers, can work together in perfect harmony. But artists who have worked with the Taviani brothers say they came very close. Paolo and Vittoio knew what they wanted and they knew how they wanted to obtain it, down to the letter.

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Caption 5 [it]: che in fondo l'Iliade è stato scritto - e [l'] Odissea -
Caption 5 [en]: that after all, the Iliad was written, and the Odyssey,

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 19

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Music plays an essential role in the films of the Taviani brothers. It's like having another actor. Composer Nicola Piovani knows something about this having worked with them on some of their movies. He also composed the soundtrack for the movie La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful) with Roberto Benigni.

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Caption 64 [it]: il segno della nostra ricerca, riuscire in fondo a coniugare,
Caption 64 [en]: the sign of our pursuit, to succeed, in the end, in combining

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 18

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Nanni Moretti tells about how he got to see Caesar Must Die before it was released. The composer, Giuliano Taviani talks about how he became interested in writing music for film, and how budget limits actually inspired him in writing the music for this movie.

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Caption 27 [it]: In fondo, ecco, la...
Caption 27 [en]: Basically, I mean, the...

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 13

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The Taviani brothers talk about their movie The Elective Affinities, based on a novel by Goethe. Central to the film is the conflict between reason and passion, nature and the idea of utopia, as the love stories of two couples unfold.

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Caption 13 [it]: ma che in fondo mi sarebbe molto piaciuto fare.
Caption 13 [en]: but which, deep down, I would have loved to do.

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 12

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Although their films weren't overtly political, the Taviani brothers saw and heard what was "in the air" in Italy, and somehow captured some the essence of it, without even being aware of it.

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Caption 15 [it]: Però, in fondo, avevan colto una verità
Caption 15 [en]: But, ultimately, they had grasped a truth

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The Taviani brothers talk about how color and images can be more important than the story itself. There are clips from interviews with them when they were much younger, and the director of photography contributes some thoughts, as well. The movie featured in this segment is Good Morning, Babylon from 1987.

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Caption 45 [it]: Poi, dopo molti anni ti accorgi, in fondo,
Caption 45 [en]: Later on, after many years, you realize deep down

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 5

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.

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Caption 29 [it]: Secondo me il film, proprio nel fondo, è
Caption 29 [en]: I think that movies are, in the end,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 12

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Palermo faces the sea and has a very long history of immigration. The narrator interviews a young woman whose great grandfather came to Sicily from Sudan. She is involved in educating immigrants from Africa and Asia. Pitrè was also highly involved in education.

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Caption 21 [it]: In fondo, la presenza così variegata di popoli che entrano,
Caption 21 [en]: Ultimately, such a diverse presence of peoples arriving,

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