perché - People - Advanced - Italian Videos

Warmup Workout

Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

As her condition worsens, Cloe tells Giuseppe about the child she had abandoned, and makes him promise to find him.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 19 [it]: Perché...
Caption 19 [en]: Because...

Warmup Workout

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 12

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Pasolini talks about the gates to the city of Orte. They may be simple, and built by unnamed men, but that doesn't mean they don't have value to protect. He moves on to talk about Sabaudia, a city built by the fascist regime, on reclaimed marshland, roughly halfway between Rome and Naples.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 4 [it]: perché sono de', de', delle mura semplici,
Caption 4 [en]: because they are simple walls,

Warmup Workout

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 11

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Pasolini explains the difficulty of framing a city through the lens, only for it to be ruined by modern buildings that seem to have nothing to do with the form of the city itself. He wants anonymous, simple poetry to be preserved just like the works of Dante and Petrarca.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 21 [it]: perché non son capace di parlare in astratto,
Caption 21 [en]: because I am not able to talk abstractly,

Warmup Workout

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.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 9 [it]: Perché? -Perché ognuno farebbe come je [romanesco: gli] pare.
Caption 9 [en]: Why? -Because everyone would do as they like.

Warmup Workout

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 9

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.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 21 [it]: perché io è proprio a questa élite che mi voglio ri', voglio rivolgere,
Caption 21 [en]: because I, it is just this elite that I want to, I want to address,

Warmup Workout

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 8

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.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 16 [it]: non lo dico per retorica, lo dico perché
Caption 16 [en]: I'm not saying it rhetorically, I'm saying it because

Warmup Workout

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 7

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.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 5 [it]: E per'...[ perché]... ed è questo sviluppo,
Caption 5 [en]: And be [because]... and it's this development

Warmup Workout

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.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 9 [it]: perché il cinema non è una tecnica letteraria,
Caption 9 [en]: because cinema is not a literary technique,

Warmup Workout

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Chiara tells about how she realized she knew how to read, which then led her to begin writing. She wrote her first "novel" in second grade. Where she grew up, on the outskirts of Rome, influence her writing to a significant degree.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 23 [it]: subito dopo, scrivere, perché, veramente, ho cominciato
Caption 23 [en]: right afterwards, writing, because actually, I started

Warmup Workout

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 4

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Pasolini talks about how artists are always controversial. They are a living protest. His protest involves language and national identity.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 8 [it]: un artista è per forza impegnato, perché
Caption 8 [en]: an artist is necessarily engaged, because

Warmup Workout

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.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 7 [it]: Perché ho scritto in friulano?
Caption 7 [en]: Why did I write in Friulian?

Warmup Workout

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 1

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.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 20 [it]: è difficile parlare di lui, perché
Caption 20 [en]: it's difficult to talk about him, because

Warmup Workout

Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 18

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Elena goes to see Giuseppe together with little Antonio. She notices right away that the apartment is empty. At the hospital, one of Mussolini's federal agents is visiting and gives Moscati some troubling news.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 24 [it]: Perché non provi a parlargliene tu?
Caption 24 [en]: Why don't you try talking to him about it?

Warmup Workout

Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 16

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Moscati can't find Aniello in the hospital and discovers he had run off. Moscati goes out looking for him.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 17 [it]: Anie' [Aniello], ma pecché nun [napoletano: perché non] m'hai aspettato?
Caption 17 [en]: Anie', but why didn't you wait for me?

Warmup Workout

Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Rita Levi Montalcini was a strong proponent of education and instruction as the means to gain freedom. She was also an example of it. This segment describes a visit to women in prison, and the obstacles Montalcini had to face, as a woman and as a Jew, during the Nazi-Fascist regime.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 34 [it]: per capire la questione, perché il nostro problema
Caption 34 [en]: to understand the matter, because our problem

Difficulty

Category

All

Field

You must be a subscriber to leave a comment.

Difficulty

Category

All

Field

Captions

You must be a subscriber to leave a comment.