Italian Film Series
When: Wednesday,
October 4, 2017
7:00 PM
-
9:30 PM
Where: > See description for location
Cost: 0
Description: Italian Film Series - "The Icicle Thief" (1989)
7:00 PM on Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Liberal Arts room 117
Join us for our 3rd Annual Italian Film Series at UMass Dartmouth, co-sponsored by the Foreign Literature and Languages Department and the History Department. This semester, we will be delving into various films of the commedia italian (Italian comedy) that make light of and meddle with the past.
To begin this semester's film series we will show The Icicle Thief (1989):
The director Maurizio Nichetti is invited by a TV studio to introduce a screening of his best-known film, the neo-realist classic 'Ladri di saponette'. But Nichetti is horrified to discover that his black-and-white tale of life in poverty is constantly interrupted by garish colour commercials, and even more horrified when a power cut in the studio causes film and commercials to be mixed up -a glamorous model finds herself in the arms of an unemployed pauper, while his wife finds herself in consumer heaven. So Nichetti has to break into the film to try to sort everything out (Michael Brooke, IMDB).
Free admission. All films have English subtitles.
Any questions may be directed to Prof. Rose Facchini at rose.facchini@umassd.edu or Prof. Matthew Sneider at msneider@umassd.edu.
7:00 PM on Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Liberal Arts room 117
Join us for our 3rd Annual Italian Film Series at UMass Dartmouth, co-sponsored by the Foreign Literature and Languages Department and the History Department. This semester, we will be delving into various films of the commedia italian (Italian comedy) that make light of and meddle with the past.
To begin this semester's film series we will show The Icicle Thief (1989):
The director Maurizio Nichetti is invited by a TV studio to introduce a screening of his best-known film, the neo-realist classic 'Ladri di saponette'. But Nichetti is horrified to discover that his black-and-white tale of life in poverty is constantly interrupted by garish colour commercials, and even more horrified when a power cut in the studio causes film and commercials to be mixed up -a glamorous model finds herself in the arms of an unemployed pauper, while his wife finds herself in consumer heaven. So Nichetti has to break into the film to try to sort everything out (Michael Brooke, IMDB).
Free admission. All films have English subtitles.
Any questions may be directed to Prof. Rose Facchini at rose.facchini@umassd.edu or Prof. Matthew Sneider at msneider@umassd.edu.
Contact: > See Description for contact information
Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, Foreign Literature and Languages, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Films