Harvard Film Archive, Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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General Admission Tickets $9, $7 Non-Harvard Students, Seniors, Harvard Faculty and Staff.
Harvard students free.
Special event tickets (for in-person appearances) are $12.
Tickets go on sale 45 minutes prior to show time.
The HFA does not do advance ticket sales.
About the series:
In the wake of the celebrations of the beginning of cinema’s second century and a new millennium, the Harvard Film Archive presents a synoptic look at Italian filmmaking over the last decade. The eleven films in this program reveal an important national cinema that continues to renew itself even as it absorbs and honors its past. Throughout the history of cinema, the films of Italy have ranked among the most important and influential, from the groundbreaking epics of the 1910s through postwar neorealism, to the contributions decades later of Bertolucci, Wertmuller and the Taviani Brothers. Today new generations of directors are surveying a country marked by the rise of visual and social technologies, waves of immigration, deep-rooted regional differences, recent political scandals and a sputtering economy. These filmmakers do not make up one school but rather exemplify a number of traditions and styles, from realism to social melodrama to Fellinian grotesquerie, finding inspiration in a resilient culture constantly in dialogue with its own history and traditions while remaining open to the future.
This program is presented in partnership with the Consulate General of Italy in Boston and Professionisti Italiani a Boston. Special thanks: Giuseppe Pastorelli, Ubaldo Panitti, Antonio Talarico, Cinzia Del Zoppo – Consulate General of Italy in Boston; Giovanni Abbadessa, Valentina Cecchi – Professionisti Italiani a Boston; Carla Cattani – Cinecitta; Giuliana Bruno – Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard.
