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.
Difficulty: Newbie
Italy
Marika talks about going to the movies in Italy. Don't worry. Italians like popcorn, too.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Domenico happens to get a glimpse of Vittorio De Sica himself and chases him down to ask him for a part.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Another kind of subordinate clause is the temporal subordinate. One way we introduce it is with conjunctions having to do with time, such as "while," "when," and "as long as." There are other ways to form a temporal subordinate clause, and Daniela explains them.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The Taviani brothers, at around eighty years of age, feel like they have gone back to their more reckless early days, with Caesar Must Die.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Domenico begins recounting his second (and best) year at the Experimental Center in Rome. One reason it was his best year is that he met a very special person.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
If you don't check your meters and tell the electric and gas companies how much you have consumed, they make an estimate. Sometimes this means you get a nasty surprise at the end of the year, when they work things out, and figure out how much you owe in order to square accounts. This is called il conguaglio.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Saverio Marconi talks about the job of an actor. Nanni Moretti tells of an embarrassing moment on the set of a movie he was making with the Taviani brothers. Vittorio and Paolo Taviani talk about why they shot Caesar Must Die in black and white.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In the present, Domenico is describing his life in Rome to his audience. There are flashbacks to the reality of those times.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
No one likes paying bills, ma vanno pagate (but they have to be paid). Marika goes over some of the most common utilities and special taxes you have to pay if you live in Italy.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The Taviani brothers, as well as others in the filmmaking world, talk about what acting means, and how each actor brings something different to telling the story.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Domenico gives a moving performance of one of his songs at the circolo (club), and meets Raimondo Lanza di Trabia, who is there with the actress/princess he had seen at the convent.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
When you rent out a house to someone or rent a house from someone, it's important to know who's who. Marika explains how it works.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
It was a tough 72 days, but, as the title suggests, the family recovered, luckily. They think back on their time in isolation and what it felt like to come out the other side. Their story even made it into a local newspaper.
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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