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
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 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
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 describes his relationship to a producer who became so exasperated by the director, that he drank ink in mock suicide.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Neapolitan
Mario Talarico is a Neapolitan master umbrella maker. He and his finely crafted products have been featured in newspapers around the world.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Donatella Versace, go-to designer for movie stars and rock stars, talks about her love of color, designing the various Versace collections, and the legacy of her brother.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Fellini, interviewed at the Trevi Fountain, during the filming of La Dolce Vita, discussed his relationships with producers.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Neapolitan
Pizzeria Brandi is an historic pizzeria in Naples, dating back to the seventeen seventies. Pizza Margherita, named after the Savoy queen Margherita, was invented at the pizzeria in the eighteen eighties.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
An exclusive interview with the world-famous Italian film director and screenwriter, Federico Fellini.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Neapolitan
Pupia tv presents the “Lanificio25”, a multipurpose space in Naples devoted to the arts and performing arts. There you will find all kinds of music, theater, dance, exhibitions, and workshops.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Raffaele, a producer of extra virgin olive oil from Apulia, tells us about the ancient origins of his olive groves. Many of the trees are centuries old, some are even over a thousand years old, and continue to produce excellent oil.
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.
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.
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.
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