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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 16

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.

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Caption 32 [it]: come se, appunto, eh...
Caption 32 [en]: as if, indeed, uh...

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Marika spiega - Le bollette - Part 2

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.

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Caption 39 [it]: che, appunto, vivono in un condominio
Caption 39 [en]: who, indeed, live in an apartment building

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 15

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.

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Caption 38 [it]: Lui non venne perché, appunto, girava i primi giorni.
Caption 38 [en]: He didn't come because, in fact, he was filming on the first few days.

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Marika spiega - Le bollette - Part 1

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.

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Caption 30 [it]: su un contratto, appunto, di locazione.
Caption 30 [en]: on a lease contract.

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 14

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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Caption 10 [it]: Ottone sarebbe, appunto, il portatore
Caption 10 [en]: Ottone would be, in fact, the bearer

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 11

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The political vision of the Taviani brothers comes through in their movies, especially Allonsanfàn. The choices they made in the story were simply a reflection of their thinking at the time, not because the movies themselves were affiliated with a particular political party.

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Caption 50 [it]: diciamo di, appunto, di propaganda,
Caption 50 [en]: shall we say, of, exactly that, for propaganda,

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

If you have ever visited Italy, you have probably run across the term pinacoteca describing a picture gallery, and wondered where it came from. You will find out in this video about a room called the "tablinum" in the Assisi domus, discovered because they wanted to build an elevator!

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Caption 42 [it]: praticamente dei quadri, appunto,
Caption 42 [en]: basically, indeed, paintings —

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The Taviani brothers talk about how color and images can be more important than the story itself. There are clips from interviews with them when they were much younger, and the director of photography contributes some thoughts, as well. The movie featured in this segment is Good Morning, Babylon from 1987.

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Caption 1 [it]: Poi, insomma, appunto da film a film
Caption 1 [en]: Then, basically, indeed, from movie to movie,

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Un Figlio a tutti i costi - film - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Orazio had a bad night, and now he is having a bad day, from problems at the office to a strange visit to the doctor with Anna, to a postponed dinner date with a friend.

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Caption 42 [it]: Qualche sigaretta, appunto. -Male, male.
Caption 42 [en]: A few cigarettes, exactly. -Bad, bad.

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The directors talk about the important role the sea played in their films. Another element that played an important part was color, used to express feelings and situations.

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Caption 47 [it]: usata in maniera e... appunto non manierata,
Caption 47 [en]: used in a manner and... just that, not mannered,

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The Etruscans were influenced by other ethnic groups, particularly the Greeks. On display in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, we find evidence of this in the terracotta objects and fine gold jewelry and precious objects dating from the period.

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Caption 33 [it]: da cui, appunto, ha preso il nome del, che l'ha ufficialmente, eh,
Caption 33 [en]: from whom, in fact, it took its name, who officially, eh,

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Un Figlio a tutti i costi - film - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The next step is to go to the cemetery. Anna is being her bossy self, and Orazio is trying to resist.

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Caption 32 [it]: Scavalco. -Appunto.
Caption 32 [en]: I'll climb over it. -Exactly.

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We get a look at the tomb, in terracotta, of a noblewoman. The clay allows for detail, where tombs in Macco do not. We then go to Rome, to the most important Etruscan museum, where we see once again, what an important role the afterlife played in the lives (and deaths) of the Etruscans.

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Caption 59 [it]: ma di uso quotidiano, che sono stati messi appunto
Caption 59 [en]: but rather for everyday use, which were placed there specifically

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The Etruscans were an important part of Italy's ancient history, and its lands extended for a large expanse of the peninsula. We visit Banditaccia a Cerveteri, a necropolis north of Rome.

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Caption 34 [it]: che si chiamava, appunto, Tirreno.
Caption 34 [en]: whose name was, indeed, Tyrrhenus.

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Sposami - EP 2 - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

At the wedding reception, Ugo runs into a woman he knows from his recent past. Nora is super jealous, of course, because that's her mindset, but Ugo is genuinely flummoxed by what the woman says to him, and can't stop thinking about it.

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Caption 20 [it]: Ecco, appunto. Abbiamo aspettato anni,
Caption 20 [en]: Yeah, exactly. We waited for years.

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