Sculpture by the Sea – Leonardo Cumbo
Leonardo Cumbo is one of 70 artists selected from more than 200 sculptors from all over the world who have applied for participation in the important contemporary sculpture exhibition “Sculptures By the Sea”, which will be held in Cottesloe from 3 to 20 March 2023. The Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in Sydney and Perth […]
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Six Strings Across Italy – Lorenzo Bernardi Classical Guitar
Six Strings Across Italy – the creation of an Italian classical music legacy Lorenzo Bernardi – Classical Guitar Performing: Sonata K208 – Domenico Scarlatti Sonata Op.15 (Allegro spiritoso, Adagio con grande espressione, Rondò finale) – Mauro Giuliani Sonata in Do minore N.33 – Niccolò Paganini Intermezzo from “Cavalleria Rusticana” – Pietro Mascagni Fantasia sui temi […]
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The Beekeeper
The Beekeeper Theo Angelopoulos (Greece | 1986) Marcello Mastroianni stars as a retired teacher travelling around Greece to gather nectar for his bees in this second film of Theo Angelopoulos’ haunting ‘trilogy of silence’ (which also includes Voyage to Cythera and Landscape in the Mist). Guerra co-scripted all of Angelopoulos’ features from the mid-1980s until […]
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The Assassin
The Assassin Elio Petri (Italy | 1961) Film Membership Options In this game of cat-and-mouse suggesting the moral decay, claustrophobia and corruption of modern Italy, a cunning Roman antiques dealer is investigated by the police in relation to the killing of a former lover, without being specifically accused. A paranoid post-Antonioni investigation of social identity, […]
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Europa! Europa Film Festival – Amanda, by Carolina Cavalli (Italy, 93 mins., Italian with English subtitles)
Once again this year the Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne participates in the “Europa! Europa” film festival, with the screening of the film Amanda, by Carolina Cavalli Eccentric twenty-something Amanda has no friends, despite it being the thing she desires most. When she discovers that, as a toddler, she was best friends with a girl […]
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The Mattei Affair
The Mattei Affair Francesco Rosi (Italy | 1972) Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and co-written by Tonino Guerra and Francesco Rosi, this mix of documentary and fiction reconstructs the life of oil executive Enrico Mattei (Gian Maria Volonté), one of the most powerful men in postwar Italy, while exploring the circumstances surrounding his […]
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Blow Up
Blow Up Michelangelo Antonioni (United Kingdom, Italy | 1966) Michelangelo Antonioni’s first English-language movie is a hypnotic “Swinging London” parable centring on a successful photographer (David Hemmings) who believes he is an accidental witness to murder. This arresting, provocative and extraordinarily modern investigation of the slipperiness of meaning and modern image culture, based on the […]
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Amarcord
Amarcord Federico Fellini ( Italy, France | 1973) Described by Roger Ebert as Fellini’s “final great film”, and the winner of 1974’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Amarcord is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in a particularly vivid seaside town during Italy’s fascist era. Bursting with indelible imagery (shot by Giuseppe Rotunno), […]
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“The art is very jealous, Tonino Guerra, writing images”
The Melbourne Cinematheque and the Italian Cultural Institute present ‘The art is very jealous, Tonino Guerra, writing images” a retrospective dedicated to Antonio “Tonino” Guerra, poet, writer and screenwriter who collaborated with some of the most important directors in the world world. Screenwriting professor Howard Rodman described Tonino Guerra’s work as “the brave and moral […]
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Not as Simple as it Sounds
‘Not as Simple as it Sounds’ offers an intimate and powerful act of mourning dedicated to each one of the estimated 100,000 homosexuals who were discriminated against, imprisoned and killed during the Holocaust. The artist, with contributions from the audience, is repeatedly playing a triangle instrument for 11 days, each day for 6 hours straight, […]
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