Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Leonardo Bonucci, on defense for Juventus, and of the national team, is very proud of how his team believed in themselves and the possibility of winning. And then they actually won the European Cup.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Roberto Mancini, the technical commissioner of the Italian team, and ex-soccer player, expresses his joy at the victory and dedicates the trophy to all Italians.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Here are some great lyrics for learning Italian. The video clip is actually a song within a short, inane, comedy. Just about every Italian knows the name Gianni Morandi. He's a very famous and well-loved singer-songwriter and entertainer, and even starred in a TV series called Voglia di Volare (the desire to fly), so the song may very well be a thinly veiled reference to that show. The original song Volare is one of the most famous Italian pop songs of all time.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In Italia (In Italy) is a single by Italian rapper Fabri Fibra, from the album Bugiardo (Liar), released in 2007, and features special guest artist, Gianna Nannini. This piece highlights many of the problems of contemporary Italy, such as unemployment and corruption.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Genoese
Federica Reale is a Genovese artist who now lives in Rome. She tells us her story and how she uses it in her art.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Federica conducts art workshops for children and adults. Participants use paper, often recycled, to create highly personal books.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Pupazzo is the word for "doll," but Federica has transformed it (as she likes to do with words) into pupezza because pezzo means "piece," and as you will see, she uses pieces or scraps to make these dolls. Federica uses these rag/paper dolls as a means for looking deeper inside herself, at the dark as well as the light parts. It is part of a kind of therapy she uses to help others discover hidden areas inside themselves, by means of creative imagination.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
An exclusive interview with the world-famous Italian film director and screenwriter, Federico Fellini.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Fellini, interviewed at the Trevi Fountain, during the filming of La Dolce Vita, discussed his relationships with producers.
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
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 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
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 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
At the Cannes festival, Fellini talks about La Dolce Vita, as does Georges Simenon, president of the jury, who proclaimed its success by standing up and applauding.
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