2025 – 2 SATURDAYS Introduction by Anna Brusutti UCSB Film and Media Dept
FREE ADMISSION
Cari Amici – Dear Friends,
It is with great pleasure that we announce the 2025 movie line-up of Cinema Italiano Classico.
This year we will present two wonderful classic movies starring a group of fabulous Italian actors. They will make you laugh and cry; but more than anything else, they will entertain and delight you.
As in the past, each movie will be presented by Anna Brusutti, our Artistic Director. And here are the two movies:
Saturday, March 1 – I Vitelloni
Italy, 1953 Directed by Federico Fellini
Starring: Alberto Sordi, Franco Interlenghi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini; Music by Nino Rota; In Italian with English subtitles; Approx. 104 min. 4K DCP.
Reviews
“Full of brilliantly executed coups de theater… But what makes I VITELLONI so resonant and lovely is the way those chaotic, festive moments are shown to be part of the basic rhythm of Italian provincial life, bursts of color and noise in a landscape of quiet workaday routine.” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times
“Captures the bittersweet emotions of a moment that eventually comes for everyone: the moment you realize you can either grow up, or stay forever a child.” – Martin Scorsese
Saturday, March 8th – Bellissima
It is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari and Tecla Scarano.[1]
In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that “have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978.”
Italian with English Subtitles.
PLOT Bellissima centers on a working-class mother in Rome, Maddalena, who drags her young daughter to Cinecittà Studios to attend an audition for a new film by Alessandro Blasetti. Maddalena’s efforts to promote her daughter grow increasingly frenzied.
7:30 pm — All Screenings from DVD
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