Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Tiziano Terzani (1938–2004) was an important journalist and writer. This interview, considered to be of historical value, took place during the broadcast of the Swiss television show, Cartabianca [Carte blanche], conducted by Leo Manfrini, who was a close friend of the writer.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
We continue the discussion on animal rights, asking the question why dogs and cats, among other animals, have to suffer injustices from humans, solely because they're too weak to defend themselves. The atrocity of religious ritual exemptions to animal dazing before slaughter are also discussed.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Roman
Who is born round...won't die square. That's the way it is for Grandma Italia, after a lifetime of petty thefts and trips to the slammer, she skips out of the nursing home. Not without, however, having first cracked the main office's safe. Her grandson Mario has to find her as soon as possible.
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: Advanced
Italy Roman
The Youngest Son, written and directed by the director Pupi Avati, was released in 2010. The main character, Luciano Baietti (Christian De Sica), is an entrepreneur without scruples. In order to succeed, he will stop at nothing, and this includes using his youngest son Baldo (Nicola Nocella).
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Neapolitan
In this scene from the 1960 film He Who Stops Is Lost. Totò plays the part of Antonio Guardalvecchia, and attempts to court Giulia. She's the sister of the president, and he courts her in order to get a job in the head office. The scene on the balcony recalls Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
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.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Federica demonstrates the final stages of making the Colomba. Once ready, she cuts it open to show us what it looks like on the inside, with its particular consistency.
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