Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Ennio Morricone talks about what it means to be a composer and Nicola Piovani talks about the music he composed for Ennio Morricone's birthday celebrations in his later years.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Normally, someone else writes your obituary when you die, but Ennio Morricone wrote his own! His attorney was authorized to read it aloud in public, and here it is.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
A young university student tells us about her interests as a kid, how her ideas changed as she grew up, and what her dream is.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Erica and Martina talk about their friendship, which started in the first year of high school and continues today.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Genoese
Federica Reale is a Genovese artist who now lives in Rome. She tells us her story and how she uses it in her art.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Federica conducts art workshops for children and adults. Participants use paper, often recycled, to create highly personal books.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Pupazzo is the word for "doll," but Federica has transformed it (as she likes to do with words) into pupezza because pezzo means "piece," and as you will see, she uses pieces or scraps to make these dolls. Federica uses these rag/paper dolls as a means for looking deeper inside herself, at the dark as well as the light parts. It is part of a kind of therapy she uses to help others discover hidden areas inside themselves, by means of creative imagination.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
An exclusive interview with the world-famous Italian film director and screenwriter, Federico Fellini.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Fellini, interviewed at the Trevi Fountain, during the filming of La Dolce Vita, discussed his relationships with producers.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Fellini describes his relationship to a producer who became so exasperated by the director, that he drank ink in mock suicide.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Crowds of Romans gather to watch the filming of Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain. Federico Fellini tells of his inspirations for the film La Dolce Vita.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Fellini tells how La Dolce Vita scenes were filmed both on the Via Veneto and on a set reconstructing the famous street in Cinecittà. The director also discusses his being a Capricorn.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Federico Fellini discusses Marcello Mastroianni's role as "everyman" in La Dolce Vita. He encourages viewers to see Mastroianni's "passions, hopes, fears and cowardice, and anguish and sleaziness" as similar to their own.
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.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
At the Cannes festival, Fellini talks about La Dolce Vita, as does Georges Simenon, president of the jury, who proclaimed its success by standing up and applauding.
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