Lascaux + Mad Max
Dance, light and electronic music merge in Lascaux, the performance by Italian artists Giulio Colangelo and Vittorio Montalti. Moreover, young percussionist Charles Chiovato Rambaldo will perform Mad Max by composer Pierre Jodlowski. Through Lascaux, the two Italian composers and performers pay tribute to the eponymous caves and the birth of Art. Inspired by Georges Bataille’s text on […]
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Reading club dedicated to “La felicità del lupo”, by Paolo Cognetti
Our next reading circle will have a novel from Italian literature as its theme and will take place on Thursday February 15th 2024 at 6.30pm. The reading circle will take place online, via Zoom. The invitation link will be sent only to those booked a few days before the event. It will be a nice opportunity […]
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If on a winter’s night a reader… Valentine’s Day with Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino is among the Italian writers who need no introduction. His novels including the trilogy Our Ancestors, Difficult Loves, If on a winter’s night a traveler, Invisible Cities, just to name a few, are modern classics that have accompanied and continue to accompany generations of readers in Italy and around the world. A light […]
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Voices in the Evening: a discussion on literature
Natalia Ginzburg and Primo Levi are among the most influential pens of post-World War II Italy. Both from Turin, Jews and anti-fascists, their paths as authors intertwined in the literary landscape of the second half of the 20th century. Domenico Scarpa, one of the leading scholars of Ginzburg and Levi, and the director of the […]
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Films cycle “Spaghetti Westerns”
Born in the mid-1960s, the Italian Western is a universe in its own right, whose cinematic language, anarchic tone and spectacular iconography have had a considerable impact. This cycle brings together the must-see films of the “three Sergios” (Leone, Corbucci, Sollima) and a diverse selection of films by the main directors of the period. Thursday, […]
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Screening of the film “America” by Giacomo Abbruzzese at the Cinéma Public
Claudio was born in Greece, raised in Venice, married in Taranto, and it was in New York that he was murdered after twenty years of pursuing the American dream. Giacomo Abbruzzese reconstructs his grandfather’s story, immersing us in the New York of the sixties, with Billy Joel’s notes and a gangster movie atmosphere. Through the […]
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Damiano Garofalo’s conference on the representation of the Holocaust in cinema
This conference proposes a rereading of the various declinations through which the tragedy of the Holocaust has been represented in Italian cinema from the post-war period to today. The central question that emerges from a viewing of these films is, in fact, the re-proposal of a paradigm, that of sacrifice, promptly applied to a good […]
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
On the occasion of this commemorative day, two films, almost five decades apart, bear witness to the extermination of European Jews during the Second World War. Saturday, January 27th, 5:30pm Kapo by Gillo Pontecorvo, with Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff Italy, France, Yugoslavia/ 1960 / 117 min. / Italian, German, Russian, Polish with English subtitles […]
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Conference by Damiano Garofalo on the ”Spaghetti Westerns” cycle
In the 1960s, the Italian western was the film genre which, more than others, promoted a reproduction of North American cinematographic imagery in Italian cinema: an operation which often took on the contours of recycling, if not of the true and downright plagiarism. This production was primarily aimed at commercial logic, and only secondarily did […]
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”Retour en Italie”
”Retour en Italie” is a new film cycle, born from a collaboration between the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal and Cinéma du Musée, dedicated to the discovery of the new production of Italian cinema. Don’t miss your chance to see the best of Italian cinema in Montreal. The screenings will be presented in the original language, […]
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