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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

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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.

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

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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.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

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Valentina's success coincided with the beginnings of feminist movements in Italy. She depicted a woman who was strong and independent, who could do anything a man could do, a departure from the stereotype of the Italian housewife.

Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

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In 1963 Crepax got his start in the world of comic books and two years later created his famous character, Valentina. The comic strip first appeared in the anthology comic book, "linus," founded by Giovanni Gandini, who had known Crepax as a kid.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 17 View Series View This Episode

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After talking about the past, Vera and Giuliano talk about what they'd like to do in the future: There are places to visit and revisit.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 16 View Series View This Episode

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Vera and Giuliano are each true fans of the other. But Vera can't help preferring Giuliano's directing artistry to his acting skills.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 15 View Series View This Episode

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Vera and Giuliano share some memories about how they found some of their ideas for movies. They also talk about Giuliano's acting, which was not always appreciated.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

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Giuliano Montaldo received a great many proposals for movies. But he remained amazed to encounter so many people who loved the cinema as much as he did.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

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The first screening of the Gold Rimmed Glasses was a success. Even Bassani, who had written the novel the film was based upon, had good things to say. Inti and her mother comment on the relationship between Vera and Giuliano.

La pittura più bella del mondo - La Resurrezione di Piero della Francesca - Part 15 View Series View This Episode

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If two important works of Piero's survived the bombings during World War II, it was due to the efforts of art historians and restorers such as Ugo Procacci. In addition to the Resurrection, a wonderful painting of the Virgin Mary as she was expecting a child, "La Madonna del Parto" was saved and is now housed in the museum in Monterchi, Arezzo.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

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After filming Marco Polo in China, where they made lots of friends, they return to Italy to film Gli Occhiali d'Oro (English title: The Gold Rimmed Glasses). Many famous actors took part in that film, all of them beloved by Vera and Giuliano.

Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

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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.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

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Inti, who was the 9-year-old grandson of Giuliano and Vera, went to see them as they were filming in China. They put him to work and the experience had a huge influence on him.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

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Montaldo tells how the film about Marco Polo came about. It was shot on three different continents.

Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

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Rita Levi Montalcini talks about what, as a little girl, she wanted to be when she grew up. One of her main goals was to help women, especially ones from poor countries, become what they were meant to become.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

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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.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

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Giuliano and Vera talk a little bit about the music for the Sacco and Vanzetti film, as well as a serendipitous moment in NY connected with that. When the film came out it had success, especially with young people. Their outrage about the unfair trial led to the governor of Massachusetts recognizing the unfairness of their trial.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

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Giuliano and Vera were of one mind regarding respect for workers and fighting against intolerance. One episode that particularly struck Giuliano was the news from the United States involving Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants, and anarchists, who were unjustly arrested and condemned to the electric chair in 1927. Montaldo would go on to make a film about that story.

In giro per l'Italia - Roma Il Campidoglio View Series

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Take your time with this episode about Rome because it is chock full of information. Il Campidoglio, also called Monte Capitolino, is the smallest of the seven hills of Rome, but it's the most important because that's where the mayor's office is, as well. Where did the word "capitol" come from? Fulvio has the answer. He also talks about where the word "money" comes from. And you will recognize the name of the architect who designed the piazza and its surrounding buildings.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

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Giuliano and Vera talk about some of the colorful episodes in their time together on set. Vera tells about how Giuliano accepted her daughter, Elisabetta, from a previous relationship.

In giro per l'Italia - Roma La Porta Magica View Series

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Fulvio shows tells us the story of a door, a very famous door, called the Alchemist's Door, also called the Magic Door, or the Door to Heaven, a monument built by Massimiliano Savelli Palombara, Marquis of Pietraforte on the grounds of his villa in Rome.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

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Giuliano tells about meeting Vera for the first time, and then he and Vera take turns telling about how their relationship developed.

Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

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Giuliano Montaldo tells about how he got his start, from being a ham actor in Genoa to becoming an assistant to film director Carlo Lizzani, to making his first movie.

Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 30 View Series View This Episode

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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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