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Can anyone recommend any Italian language films? - The DVD Forums
I'm learning the language and the tutor advised to listen to as much as i can.
Someone told me about Cinema Paradiso which i've never seen, i'm going to check out a few monica belluci films as well.
i have no idea on their cinema.
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Salo ? Mmm maybe not.
The Leopard.
Not many Belluci films are Italian and readily available aside from Malena.
One of her earliest appearances was as one of the sisters in Bram Stokers Dracula !!.
Depends what you can tolerate really as there are plenty of art house films such as Pasolini and Fellini.
Other wise La Scorta about the body guards of a sicilian judge.
Mediterráneo - italian soldiers in Greece during the second world war.
Respiro and Golden Door.
Gomorrah is the latest big Italian movie.
There are the Giallo style movies but the most prolific director of such films Dario Argento had a tendency to cast English speaking actors so generally his releases are dubbed.
Likewise the Italian horror directors such as Fulci and Bava.
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Ta matey. i remembered that scene in drac
will check out some of those and see if they're on tescos dvd rental thingy.
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Staying away from neo-realism and gialli then -
Benigni's Life Is Beautiful is readily available and probably good for learners as are most of Fellini's back catalogue oh and Il Postino.
For some excellent Italian films of recent years check out Nanni Moretti's films (The Son's Room, Quiet Chaos, etc).
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P.S. Don't bother with ItalianAmerican stuff like Godfather (incomprehensible Sicilian dialect) or Goodfellas, Sopranos, etc unless you want **
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That's the golden door right gpr79?
Got it in the list from ians recoms before.
ta though i wasnt going to try the whole mafioso thing.
Someone at work told me they have/had their own dialect and it'll just screw me up :o
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Ians already replied
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Oh yeah, sorry didn't know that was an alternate title for it
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The Sons Room has Laura Morante in (another Italian actress more likely to be found in foreign films)
I would suggest Volere Volari and The Icicle Thief but, like Allegro Non Troppo which also features Maurizio Nichetti, they are not readily available outside Italy
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Rome Open City. La Dolce Vita.
Eight and a Half.
La Notte. The Leopard.
Theorem. The Conformist.
Battle of Algiers.
These are the key Italian movies, I think.
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If you're just looking to learn the language I'd stay away from the classics mate, better sticking to the more recent stuff, on the other hand if you're a fan of classic world cinema you're in for a treat with the older ones.
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Battle of Algiers !!!
Lot of French and Algerian as well as Italian in that surely?
Aside from which they're trying to learn the language not the cinema The richer the dialogue the harder to follow for a beginner
You could always try Italian for beginners Though that's a lot of danish.
Problem with subtitles is the Lost In Translation issue where the text is an abridged form of the script (found this watching Band A Part the other night which also illustrates the problem with learning a language through the classics in the scene where the english teacher is getting the class to translate the death scene in Romeo and Juliet into English ).
Found a suggestion that you should try listening to Italian pop music which might be a bit OTT
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Or the english/italian translations in an opera libretto
Nooo not Italian pop music, my ears bleed at the very thought!
I'm Italian(/Scottish) and a huge fan of Fellini, et al but even I have trouble keeping awake thru a film like The Leopard So not something I'd recommend to anyone when I'm unsure of their tastes.
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Arrividerci Amore Ciao aka The Goodbye Kiss
IL Postino ak The Postman
Romanzo Criminale aka Crime Novel
Ovosoda aka Hardboiled Egg
La Seconda Moglie aka The Second Wife
La Sconosciuta aka The Unknown Woman
L'uomo delle stelle aka The Star Maker
Pane e tulipani aka Bread and Tulips
Agata e la tempesta aka Agatha and the Storm
La bestia nel cuore aka Don´t Tell
IL Divo
Nuovo cinema Paradiso aka Cinema Paradiso
Le conseguenze dell'amore aka The Consequences of Love
La meglio gioventù aka The Best of Youth
Senza movente aka No Apparent Motive
Nuovomondo aka The Golden Door
PS
I own all of the above titles on DVD.
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^ would second The Best of Youth - all 6 hrs of it.
Great stuff.
Christ Stopped at Eboli is also one I'd recommend.
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Il Divo is one of the best films of this year in any language.
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