“Anni di Piombo” - TERRORISM ON FILM: Oct 13-20 - Fall, 2006 Film Series BEGINS THIS FRIDAY at Italian Academy
THE ITALIAN ACADEMY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
IN AMERICA AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
presents the
Fall 2006 Film Series
Anni Di Piombo:
Terrorism on Film
Friday, October 13 - Friday, October 20
New York, NY- Sept. 29, 2006- Fresh from the popular success of the
new, compact schedule launched in the spring, the acclaimed film series
at The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia
University returns with a program highlighting terrorism in movies.
Six screenings over the course of eight days will focus on the wrenching
events of Italy’s “years of lead” or anni di piombo of the 1970s, which
were marked by a wave of violence attributed to right-wing and left-wing
extremists. As always, a selection of New York’s best academics and
cultural observers will introduce each screening and lead a discussion
afterwards.
Friday, October 13, 6:30
Tre Fratelli (Three Brothers, 1981)
Director: Francesco Rosi
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno
Speaker: Gaetana Morrone-Puglia
Monday, October 16, 6:30
Buongiorno, Notte (Good Morning, Night, 2003)
Dir: Marco Bellocchio
Starring: Luigi Lo Cascio, Maya Sansa, Roberto Herlitzka
Speaker: Nicoletta Marini-Maio
Tuesday, October 17, 6:30
Prova d’orchestra (Orchestra Rehearsal, 1978)
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo
Speaker: Leonard Quart
Wednesday, October 18, 6:30
Colpire Al Cuore (A Blow To The Heart, 1982)
Director: Gianni Amelio
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Fausto Rossi, Laura Morante
Speaker: Ellen Nerenberg
SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY SCREENING
Thursday, October 19, 6:30
Excellent Cadavers (2006)
Director: Marco Turco (based on the book by Alexander Stille)
Speaker: Alexander Stille
Best Documentary, 2005 Festival dei Popoli (Florence)
2005 Locarno International Film Festival
Friday, October 20, 6:30
La Seconda Volta (The Second Time, 1996)
Director: Mimmo Calopresti
Starring: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Speaker: Giancarlo Lombardi
All screenings in the Teatro at 6:30 p.m.
English Subtitles
Light Refreshments Served
$5 Donation Recommended
Curated by Jenny McPhee
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th and 118th streets)
Subway Line #1 to 116th Street
www.italianacademy.columbia.edu
SPEAKERS:
Gaetana Marrone-Puglia is a Professor of Italian at Princeton
University, specializing in modern Italian literature and postwar
Italian cinema. She is the author of La drammatica di Ugo Betti, which
won the American Association of Italian Studies Presidential Award, New
Landscapes in Contemporary Italian Cinema (1999), and The Gaze and the
Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani (2000), awarded the Scaglione
Prize by the Modern Language Association of America. She has also
produced two award-winning films, Woman in the Wind (1990) and a
documentary feature on Princeton’s intellectual and social history
entitled Princeton: Images of a University (1996). She is currently
writing a book on Francesco Rosi.
Nicoletta Marini-Maio is Assistant Professor of Italian at Middlebury
College, where she teaches Italian language, literature, and film. After
teaching at the University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy, from 1999
to 2005 she directed the Office of Cultural Affairs of the Italian
Consulate in Philadelphia and taught Italian language, theater, and
culture at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently doing
research on the representation of terrorism in Italian film and theater.
She published articles on Italian film and theater and co-edited the
scholarly volume Set the Stage! Teaching Italian through Theater (Yale
University Press, 2007).
Leonard Quart is Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies at the College of
Staten Island and at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has written essays and
reviews for Dissent, Film Quarterly, The Forward, London Magazine, and
Newsday. He is a Contributing Editor of Cineaste. His major publications
include How the War was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam, co-authored
with Albert Auster (Praeger, 1988); The Films of Mike Leigh (Cambridge
University Press); and the third edition of American Film and Society
(Praeger, December 2001).
Ellen Nerenberg is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures (Italian Studies) and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Prison Terms:
Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism (2001), which
won the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Modern Languages Association.
She is currently working on a study of three post-1989 murder cases in
Italy.
Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism
at Columbia University. His latest book, The Sack of Rome (Penguin), is
a monumental work of investigative reportage describing Silvio
Berlusconi’s nefarious rise to power. He is also the author of The
Future of the Past; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the
First Italian Republic; and Benevolence and Betrayal: Five
Italian-Jewish Families Under Fascism, which won the 1992 Los Angeles
Times Book Award for the best work of General Non-Fiction. Stille is
also a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times and The
New York Review of Books.
Giancarlo Lombardi is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative
Literature at the College of Staten Island and at the CUNY Graduate
Center. In 2002, he published a book entitled Rooms with a View:
Feminist Diary Fiction, 1954-1999. He has also published a number of
articles on contemporary women writers, Italian cinema, and Italian
Cultural Studies. He is currently working on a volume on the cinematic
representations of Italian political terrorism.
Viewers may also be interested in seeing the six-hour movie “La meglio
gioventù” or “Best of Youth,” which spans the last four decades of
Italian history, including the anni di piombo; it will be screened in
November at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of a celebration of
director Marco Tullio Giordana.