Showing posts with label CineClubDante. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CineClubDante. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

CineDante is back: Il vento fa il suo giro (The Wind Blows Round, 2005)


 

Italian Film Series: Il vento fa il suo giro [The Wind Blows Round, 2005) Giorgio Diritti

29 August 2025, 6 pm, Building 201 Room 265, University of Auckland

Discussion and refreshments to follow the screening


This month we start the first in a series of three films in the lead up to La Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo (International Italian Language Week), whose theme this year is 'confini'-borders. In addition to considering the Italian language beyond its territorial borders, we also consider internal ‘border’ issues including the survival of minority languages in Italy and the challenges to speakers from other linguistic or cultural backgrounds. This month’s film is set in a small town in the Italian Alps where the language of Occitan is still spoken. A former French teacher decides to relocate his family there to produce goat cheese. At first met with suspicion due to his unconventional ideas and lifestyle, the community eventually welcomes the young family and sees in them a possible rebirth of the town. But little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over.

 

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7G_D7gqIhg

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Cine Dante: Habemus Papam

 


Habemus Papam, by Nanni Moretti, 2011


30 May 2025, 6 pm, Building 201, Room 265 The University of Auckland

 

This month, we take a break from our ‘journey’ films to screen a very timely film. Almost fifteen years before Conclave, acclaimed Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti made an exceptional film that focused not just on the selection of the Pope, but on the human side of the diverse group of cardinals involved in the process and the inevitable deep feelings of doubt experienced by the person elected to the eminent position. The great actor Michele Piccoli delivers an unforgettable performance as the elected Pope who escapes the Vatican and wanders through the streets of Rome in search of answers. Meanwhile, back at the Vatican cappuccino craving Australian cardinals and a hilarious volleyball match overseen by the psychiatrist (played by Moretti himself) add levity to a film that has been called “thought-provoking”, “hilarious”, “sensitive”, and “groundbreaking.” Ultimately as Moretti explains, Habemus Papam is not a film about the Pope or the Catholic Church; it’s a film about humility.

Trailer on YouTube




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Sunday, March 9, 2025

Italian Journeys on Film: Basilicata Coast to Coast (Rocco Papaleo, 2010)





Basilicata Coast to Coast (Rocco Papaleo, 2010)

28 March, 6 pm Building 201, Room 265 


This month instead of travelling by train we journey by foot, across the lesser known region of Basilicata, which lays between two coastlines one on the Tyrrhenian coast and one on the Ionian. The journey would take less than two hours by car, but Nicola (Papaleo) enters his modest band in a music festival on the other side of Basilicata, and comes up with the idea of walking there in 10 days – partly as a publicity stunt and partly as an opportunity for the members to bond. And so, accompanied by a reluctant local journalist (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and a horse and cart, we join the motley group as it sets off on a picaresque life-changing crossing marked by encounters and adventures. This music-infused, comedy road movie was the winner of Best First Feature at the 2010 Italian Golden Globes and Best New Director at the 2011 David di Donatello Awards.

We invite everyone who wants to remain to chat about the film over a drink! 

 


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Saturday, February 15, 2025

Italian Journeys on Film


Buongiorno a tutti! We are launching our new Italian film series which will screen a range of films that travel through Italy in both space and time. On these voyages you will be meet people and places and encounter the many social realities that define Italy past and present.

We begin our series with a journey on a train: Tickets-we hope to see you on board!

28 February, 6 pm Building 201, Room 265 (If parking at Owen Glenn, enter from Wyynard Street entrance)

After the film, we invite everyone who wants to remain to chat about the film over a drink! 






 

Tickets

Tickets is a collaborative film involving three great filmmakers: Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach. Each filmmaker contributed a segment to create the full film. The film follows the events that occur on a train ride across Italy, toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was (Olmi’s film), a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband and who's accompanied by an assisting community service volunteer (Kiarostami’s film), and three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match (Loach’s film). All the segments are connected by the unifying element of the ticket and through a family of Albanian refugees, who switch trains and steal a ticket and a very patient (real!) ticket controller! Interactions among these passengers remark on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViD9yRse1g

 Closest parking: Owen G Glen (12 Grafton Road)

 

Parking: $6 flat rate after 4.30 pm

See attached map.





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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Italian movie this Friday!


The next CineDante will screen La Donna della Domenica - The Sunday Woman, a 1975 film by Luigi Comencini based on the best-seller crime novel by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini.


Friday 28 April – 6:00pm
Auckland University
Humanities Building
Room 220
Free entry

If you need to park there is the
Owen G Glenn Building
12 Grafton Road, with $6 flat rate.


ATTENZIONE!

There will be no CineDante in May as we will all head off to Cinema Italiano Festival: a full month of Italian movies in Auckland! For more info click here

 

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

Italian movie night: Io e te, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Friday 24 March

 



Io e te (Me and You) (2012) is Bernardo Bertolucci’s first Italian movie since 1981, and the great director’s final film. Unlike many of his exotic and expensive enterprises Me and You works on a more intimate scale. To escape his overwrought parents, Lorenzo, a 14-year-old loner, tells them that he is going away on a ski trip with school friends. His plans however, are to spend the week hiding out in his apartment building’s abandoned cellar, in the company of his horror and fantasy books and avoiding the pressures of being a "normal" teenager. But an unexpected visit from his worldly older half-sister Olivia changes everything. Their emotional time together will inspire Lorenzo to come to terms with the challenge of casting aside his disguise of troubled youth and prepare him for the next stage of life, while Olivia will also embrace transformation.  Watch the trailer here: 

Friday 24 March, 6:00pm

Auckland University Humanities Building, Room 220

Parking: Owen G Glenn Building -12 Grafton Road, $6 flat rate


 


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Sunday, February 19, 2023

Italian Film Event: Settembre


Italian Film Event, 24 February - Free entry


Settembre - Comedy 2022, directed by Giulia Louise Steigerwalt


The bitter-sweet comedy tells the story of people who, in the melancholic atmosphere of September, realise that they haven’t achieved their lifelong dreams and ambitions. Francesca has long been in crisis with her husband and confides in Debora, whose life is full of marital misunderstandings. Meanwhile, Sergio is struggling with a young girl eager for all kinds of adolescent experiences, while Francesca’s gynecologist has lost all hope in love.

Friday 24 February 6:00pm Auckland University Humanities Building, Room 220
Parking:Owen G Glenn Building -12 Grafton Road, $6 flat rate

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Un giorno con Pier Paolo Pasolini - a talk with Bruno Ferraro e Matteo Telara, followed by movie.


Tuesday 4 October at the Dante School, FreemansBay Community Centre, 52 Hepburn St, Freemans Bay, Auckland
Talk 10am-12pm - Lunch break and then, from 1.30pm to 3.30pm, movie screening. All welcome!!
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Friday, June 14, 2019

Appuntamenti di giugno

Cari amici e studenti,

Vi ricordiamo alcuni appuntamenti del mese di giugno qui alla Dante.

Mercoledì 26 giugno,   alle 10am,  CineClubDante:  “Nebbie e delitti” (Fog and Crimes)
The movie will have English subtitles.

Sabato 29 giugno, dalle 10am alle 12pm, Colazione alla Dante con Bruno Ferraro e Matteo. 
Bruno ci parlerà dello scrittore italiano Italo Calvino.

Un "barone rampante", un "visconte dimezzato," un "cavaliere inesistente"? Questi sono i personaggi che Calvino considera i nostri antenati. Leggendo parte della sua introduzione all'edizione di I nostri antenati del 1960 Bruno Ferraro vi invita a conoscere le opere fantastiche di uno dei più grandi autori moderni: Italo Calvino (1923-1985).

A "baron in the trees", a "viscount cut in half by a cannon ball," a knight which is "non-existent" because his armour is hollow: are they our ancestors? With excerpts form his introduction to the 1960 edition of Our Ancestors Bruno Ferraro will introduce the trilogy of one of the best known modern Italian writers: Italo Calvino (1923-1985).



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Monday, March 24, 2014

CineclubDante class - 26 March


Dear members,
we would like to remind you of our cineclub class. This month we celebrate the Oscar winning film "La grande bellezza" watching another great Italian movie that won three Oscars and broke the box-office record for profits by a foreign film in the American market: La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful) directed by Roberto Benigni in 1997. Wednesday  26th of March at 1.30pm - Dante's room - in Freeman's Bay Community Centre.


Roberto Benigni plays Guido, a Jewish book seller in the Tuscan city of Arezzo in 1939.
Whit the beginning of the World War II, he and his family have to cope with racial laws against Jews that Mussolini's regime had passed.
Soon the family are placed into a concentration camp and the mood of the film changes abruptly.
Roberto Benigni, as a kind of modern Chaplin, does something really special in this film: 
to protect his son, he turns the horrors of the camp into a child's fable, a fabulous world of play, inhabited at least by one benign clown.

This is a language class, a fascinating way to improve your Italian watching and talking about the most beautiful movies of il Cinema Italiano. 
There is no need to book for this class – just turn up to watch and discuss the film with Flavia Berucci. 

CineclubDante class - 26 March - 1.30pm - Freeman's Bay Community Centre.
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Dante cineclub “Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto”





The next Dante cineclub class about “cinema italiano anni ’70” - Wednesday the 28th of August – 1.30pm at Dante’s room – Freeman’s Bay Community Centre.

This time we will watch and talk about the film “Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto” (Investigation on a Citizen Above Suspicion) directed by Elio Petri in 1970.

This movie is an example of the Italian political film genre. The film tells the story of a top police officer that kills his beautiful mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime testing if the police will charge him for the murder.
Will Justice triumph? Or is the political power above suspicion? As the Kafka’s citation that ends the film says: “the servants of the law are above the law, and therefore, above suspicion”.
Here a taste of the beautiful soundtrack performed during a concert in Piazza San Marco in Venice, directed by Ennio Moricone himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54WkUiZopBU

This is a language class, a fascinating way to improve your language skills through the history of Italian Cinema.

Cost: $5 for Dante students, $10 for everybody else.
 


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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Next Cine Club Dante appointment


CineClubDante

Dear members,
We would like to remind you of our CineClubDante classes on Wednesday 29th of May at 1.30pm at our premises in Freemans Bay.

We are going to watch “Amarcord”  (1973) Federico Fellini’s masterpiece.

Entrance $5 for existing Dante’s student
                   $10 for all the others

Looking forward to see you.

Flavia
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

CineClubDante: Two Women (in Italian La ciociara)




CineClubDante returns Wednesday the 19th of September at2.15pm.

After the short break in August, we will watch another of De Sica’s most intense and less known movies: Two Women (in Italian La ciociara).
Shot in 1960, Two Women tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. It was adapted by De Sica and Cesare Zavattini from the novel of the same name written by Alberto Moravia. It stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi.
The movie won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Sophia Loren. This was the first time an acting Oscar had been given for a non-English speaking performance. Loren also won the Award for Best Actress at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Loren won 22 international awards for Two Women.
Come and watch the movie, and talk about it with our teacher Matteo Telara
We remind you CineDanteClub is a language class, an unusual way to go deeper into the Italian culture and improve your language skills.

$5 for students
$10 for everybody else.
Coffee included.
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Saturday, June 30, 2012

CineClubDante


Next class, Thursday the 12th of July.







After De Sica’s masterpieces (Miracolo a Milano and Ieri, oggi e domani), and Fellini’s Le notti di Cabiria, our fascinating journey through the history of Italian Cinema brings us to Francesco Rosi’s Salvatore Giuliano, a 1962 neo-realist documentary, shot in non-linear style, that follows the lives of those involved with the famous Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Giuliano.
British critic Derek Malcolm called it "almost certainly the best film about the social and political forces that have shaped Sicily”, and Terrence Rafferty (The New Yorker and The New York Times) noted that "Salvatore Giuliano manages to sustain an almost impossible balance of immediacy and reflection: it's such an exciting piece of filmmaking that you might not realize until the end that its dominant tone is contemplative, even melancholy”.
Come and watch the movie, and talk about it with our teacher Matteo Telara
We remind you that CineDanteClub is a language class, an unusual way to go deeper into the Italian culture and improve your language skills. Please let us know by email if you will come so that we can arrange the room.

$5 for students
$10 for everybody else.
Coffee included.

Thursday 12th of July at 1.30pm at Dante’s.

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

FELLINI'S "NIGHTS OF CABIRIA".






Ciao a tutti,


We’d like to remind you of our “CineClubDante” class, which will take place Thursday the 14th at 1.30pm at Dante’s.
After “Miracolo a Milano” and “Ieri oggi e domani”, we will this time watch and talk about Fellini’s “Nights of Cabiria”, a 1957 romantic drama which won many awards, including a Oscar Best Foreign Language Film in 1958.
Come and watch the movie, and talk about it with our teacher Matteo Telara.
Based on a story by Fellini, the film is about a waifish prostitute (Giulietta Masina, Fellini’s wife and muse) who wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

This is a language class, a fascinating way to improve your language skills through the history of Italian Cinema, from the Neorealismo’s masterpieces to today.
Please let us know if you will come, so that we can arrange the room.

$5 for students
$10 for everybody else.
Coffee included.

Ci vediamo giovedì 14 alle 1.30pm.
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Friday, May 11, 2012

CineClubDante!




We’d like to remind you of our CineClubDante, a course on Italian Classic Cinema that will take place, once per month during this winter at Dante’s.
Last month we watched “Miracolo a Milano” and talked about the Italian Neorealismo. This time we will watch another masterpiece of Vittorio De Sica, “Ieri, oggi e domani” with Sofia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
The movie will have English subtitles.
This is a language class, a fascinating journey through the history of Italian Cinema and a way to go deeper into the Italian culture and improve your language skills.
Come and watch the movie, and talk about it with our teacher Matteo Telara.
The class will take place Thursday the 17th, at 1.30pm, at our premises in Freemans Bay.
“Ieri, oggi e domani” is a 1963 comedy anthology film, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards. The film consists of three short stories about couples in different parts of Italy, Naples, Milan and Rome.

Entrance   $5 for existing Dante’s student
                  $10 for all the others.
Coffee included.

Looking forward to see you.



Vi ricordiamo l’appuntamento CineClubDante, un corso sui classici del cinema italiano che avrà luogo una volta al mese alla Dante.
Il mese scorso abbiamo visto “Miracolo a Milano” e abbiamo discusso sul Neorealismo. Questa volta vedremo un altro capolavoro di Vittorio De Sica, “Ieri, oggi e domani”, con Sofia Loren e Marcello Mastroianni.
Il film avrà sottotitoli in inglese.
Questa è una classe di lingua. Un affascinante viaggio attraverso la storia del cinema italiano e una maniera per approfondire la conoscenza della cultura italiana e al tempo stesso migliorare le vostre competenze linguistiche.
Alla visione del film seguirà una discussione con Matteo Telara.
La proiezione avverrà giovedì 17 maggio alle 13.30 presso la sede della Dante in Freemans Bay
 “Ieri, oggi e domani” è una commedia a episodi del 1963, vincitrice dell’Oscar miglior film straniero al 37esimo Academy Awards.  Il film è suddiviso in tre parti, ambientate in tre differenti luoghi: Napoli, Milano e Roma.

Entrata  $5 per studenti già iscritti a un corso
             $10 per tutti gli altri.
Caffè incluso.

Vi aspettiamo numerosi!
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