Oct 29, 2020 | Library Blog, Un Progetto Speciale di Khristine Hopkins
Zeffirelli’s La Traviata Poet Mark Doty has said, “If art’s acceptable evidence, mustn’t what lies behind the world be at least as beautiful as the human voice?” If you are unconvinced by that question, Franco Zeffirelli’s magnificent...
Sep 29, 2020 | Library Blog, Un Progetto Speciale di Khristine Hopkins
Two by Nanni Moretti Nanni Moretti is the director of many award winning films, including The Son’s Room for which he garnered the most prestigious award, the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001. Other of his films have been in...
Aug 18, 2020 | Library Blog, Un Progetto Speciale di Khristine Hopkins
Four Documentaries Spettacolo (2017) available on Kanopy, Hoopla, and CLAMS The beautiful medieval hill town of Monticchiello in Tuscany and its Teatro Povero (Poor Theater) is the subject of the wondrous documentary, Spettacolo (translation:...
Jul 30, 2020 | Books, Library Blog, Un Progetto Speciale di Khristine Hopkins
TO BE FAIR . . . The Great Italian Filmmakers (and others) I’ve been having a good time writing these posts, and sharing with you Italian movies and series I enjoy (see post #9, paragraph one). But just because movies by the Great Italian Filmmakers I was exposed to...
Jul 9, 2020 | Books, Library Blog, Un Progetto Speciale di Khristine Hopkins
Khristine Shares her Favorite Italian Movies and Series Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips) (2001) If you’ve been following this blog from the beginning, you’ve probably noticed that the movies and series I’ve chosen to write about have a commonality derived from...
Jul 2, 2020 | Books, Library Blog, Un Progetto Speciale di Khristine Hopkins
More Watching the Detectives: Khristine Shares her Favorite Italian Detective Series Inspector Manara (Il Commissario Manara) Series One & Two 24 episodes 2009-2011 Unlike Commissario Montalbano, this is not a series of great depth or great seriousness....
