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

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Nel film Le affinità elettive lo stile di Paolo e Vittorio Taviani si fa coerente, essenziale e ricco di densità poetica. Il film è tratto dall’omonimo romanzo di Goethe nel quale si racconta del conflitto tra ragione e passione, progetto e natura, nell'intrecciarsi di due coppie e del loro sentimento amoroso.

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Benvenuti in Galera - Bollate, Milano - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

In this part, we see an excerpt from a job interview with one of the inmates at Bollate. The young man tells about the different detention experiences he had had before coming to Bollate.

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Caption 48 [it]: E sì, sì, questo sì, ha ragione, è una soddisfazione.
Caption 48 [en]: And yes, yes, yes, you're right, it is a satisfaction.

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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 40 [it]: non c'è nessuna cosa [ragione] di stare insieme.
Caption 40 [en]: there is no reason to stay together.

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Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

What works in the relationship between Vera and Giuliano is partly the fact that they complement each other, like yin and yang. They talk about a biographical movie they made about Giordano Bruno, a 16th-century Italian philosopher and cosmological theorist, with Gian Maria Volonté.

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Caption 32 [it]: Hai ragione, Vera.
Caption 32 [en]: You are right, Vera.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 30

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The episode closes with one of Domenico Modugno's most famous songs, Tu si' 'na cosa grande (you are something great to me), as Mimmo muses about the present and the future.

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Caption 30 [it]: O forse avevano ragione mia madre e mio padre,
Caption 30 [en]: Or maybe my mother and father were right,

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 14

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Isabelle Huppert talks (in French) about the craziness of the film and the Taviani brothers talk about the character of their male protagonist and why they set the film in Tuscany, even though the story is German.

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Caption 3 [it]: [In ogni caso sembra esaltare le virtù della ragione e del controllo di se stessi,]
Caption 3 [en]: [In any case it seems to exalt the virtues of reason and self-control,]

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico goes to the Experimental Center where there is a sea of candidates waiting their turns to go in and take the entrance exam. He meets a friendly guy named Riccardo Pazzaglia. He also meets a girl who is rather nervous and feeling insecure.

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Caption 43 [it]: È un'altra cosa. No, hai ragione, e in effetti è più bella, sì, "réalisateur".
Caption 43 [en]: It's a whole different thing. No, you're right, and in fact it's nicer, yes: "réalisateur."

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 11

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The political vision of the Taviani brothers comes through in their movies, especially Allonsanfàn. The choices they made in the story were simply a reflection of their thinking at the time, not because the movies themselves were affiliated with a particular political party.

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Caption 29 [it]: capisce che il mondo è ca'... cambia e... ed ha ragione!
Caption 29 [en]: He understands that the world has chan'... changes and... and he's right!

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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 43 [it]: Mi date ragione perché voi la rivoluzione non l'avete saputa fare
Caption 43 [en]: You agree with me because you haven't been able to bring about a revolution,

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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The narrator goes over the vanishingly small number of expressions coined during Mussolini's time that are still in use today. The song that gives the series its name is provided in full.

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Caption 37 [it]: S'ostina, vuol sempre lei ragione
Caption 37 [en]: Insists, always wanting to be right

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Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 9

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Fellini talks about being an artist and about not being afraid to face one's doubts in order to carry out a mission.

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Caption 11 [it]: questa sua idea è espressa, mi pare che abbia ragione.
Caption 11 [en]: this idea of his gets expressed, I think he's right.

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L'isola del gusto - Pasta alla New Norma

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Catena and Agata relax in the garden of Agata's baglio [Sicilian architectural form with buildings arranged around a courtyard]. They're getting ready to cook typical Sicilian dishes that Catena will include in a cookbook she's writing.

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Caption 65 [it]: Hai ragione. Hai ragione.
Caption 65 [en]: You're right. You're right.

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Tiziano Terzani - Cartabianca - Part 1

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Tiziano Terzani (1938–2004) was an important journalist and writer. This interview, considered to be of historical value, took place during the broadcast of the Swiss television show, Cartabianca [Carte blanche], conducted by Leo Manfrini, who was a close friend of the writer.

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Caption 24 [it]: ragione per cui chiedo scusa ai telespettatori se...
Caption 24 [en]: which is why I'll ask the television audience for forgiveness if...

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