Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
While Martino plays his guitar for Sally, Peppino figures out that three's a crowd and leaves. Ginosa has become a bustling tourist town, and Peppino is back at work as a "tourguide."
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
A famous TV personality arrives in Ginosa and wants to talk to Peppino of all people. She thinks she has him figured out.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Peppino brings Martino some magazines singing his praises. But the two friends don't agree on what should happen next, and things get unpleasant.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Martino makes an important decision, but gets stopped in his tracks. He's going to have to change his plans.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Martino has a hard time accepting what the priest and police have come to tell him. He's stuck.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Martino is ready to join Sally for their trip. He's literally out the door. But something comes up.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
It's time to go on TV since all the headlines have announced that Martino has been found. Going on live TV is a new experience for Peppino, and host Simonetta has her hands full trying to keep control.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Peppino certainly managed to stay in the spotlight, but what happened to Martino?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Claudio Capotondi is a sculptor who lives and works in Pietrasanta, a Tuscan town famous for its marble and marble sculptors. He talks about an upcoming exhibition.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Claudio Capotondi, sculptor, takes us into his "thinking room" and talks about the process of taking a block of marble and turning it into a work of art.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The artist takes to the fascinating world of the marble quarries where he chooses the blocks of marble which he will transform into works of art.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Claudio Capotondo talks about the tools and techniques that enable him to transform a block of marble or porphyry (a kind of igneous rock) into a work of art.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
"Innercore" is the title, inspired by an article in the New York Times, of Claudio Capotondi's masterpiece. He talks about the significance of the sculpture, and about the special kind of stone he used to make it.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Claudio Capotondi discusses his marble and travertine sculpture entitled PortaRoma, created in 2000.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Coffee, in its broadest sense, is the topic of the Caffè Corto Moak, the international short film competition, now in its eighth year, promoted by Caffè Moak.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
A group of film artists get together for some brainstorming in order to come up with an idea for the short film competition "Caffè Corto Moak." They're running out of time, and their nerves are in tatters.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In English, the difference between "until" and "as long as" is quite distinct, but in Italian, it's a little blurry because the presence of the negative word non (not) might change the meaning of a phrase or it might not. When the meaning is not altered by its presence, the word, in this case non (not), is "pleonastic." We're talking about finché and finche non.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Elisa Degan and Gianna Mantovan of Torino provide step by step directions of how to prepare Grilled Sea-Bass Fillets. This fish dish is very simple to prepare and also very delicious.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Giuseppe Pitrè was an ethnologist who collected documents pertaining to Sicily and its culture and traditions. His work is the basis for this documentary, which unites live footage, drawings, and archival documents.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
We learn about Pitrè's life, and his relationship to the sea.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
In this segment, we see some swordfish harpoon fishing, and hear an old Sicilian legend about a boy named Nicola who could stay underwater for a very long time.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Pitrè's life was marked by a sort of travelling storyteller tradition in his family. In those days, a cuntastorie (storyteller) would go around to all the piazzas and tell stories, and people would pay to hear them.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
This segment focuses on an actor who retells and acts out stories from Sicily's past, speaking in Sicilian dialect. He uses the Pitrè Museum as a source for material. The museum houses a manuscript with over 4,000 Sicilian proverbs, just one of the many volumes of Sicilian ethnographic material.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Pitrè's mission was to conserve and safeguard the traditions of his people, the Sicilians, and to keep the roots alive. Looking at religious traditions is one important way to do this.
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