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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Arion Baroque – Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
During a brief respite from his busy Roman sojourn, Handel left for Naples from May to July 1708, where he had been commissioned to write the serenata Aci, Galatea e Polifemo for the wedding of the Duke of Alvito and Beatrice di Sanseverino. This short opera, for three voices and orchestra without chorus, is remarkable for the […]
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”L’Italie à l’écran”
”L’Italie à l’écran” is a new cycle of films, born from the collaboration between the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal and the Cinéma Le Clap, dedicated to the discovery of the new production of Italian cinema by offering the latest films by established directors. The selection aims to highlight different approaches of the 7th art through the […]
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Screening of the film “The Belgian Wave” by Jérôme Vandewattyne
Karen, with the help of Elzo, investigates a wave of UFO sightings in Belgium between 1989 and 1992. The two protagonists embark on a psychedelic road trip in which exuberant witnesses of the time parade. When they discover the video diary of Marc, a journalist who disappeared at the time of the UFO phenomena, Karen […]
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Screening of the film “Dante” by Pupi Avati
Dante dies in exile in Ravenna in 1321. Almost thirty years later, Giovanni Boccaccio (Sergio Castellitto) is commissioned to bring, as symbolic compensation, ten gold florins to his daughter Sister Beatrice, in a monastery in Ravenna. Retracing part of Dante’s journey from Florence to Ravenna and stopping in his own places, Boccaccio reconstructs the human […]
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