Istituto Di Cultura - Melbourne

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. Screenwriti...

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&rsquo...

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 extraordin...

NostalghiaAndrei Tarkovsky (Italy, Soviet Union | 1983 ) “Not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours” (J. Hoberman), Andrei Tarkovsky’s penultimate film is a hermetic, spiritual and truly visionary work mixing monochrome and desaturated images to provide a melancholy and physically inclem...

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 cir...