NAPLES ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC.
PASTA e PELLICOLA (Pasta & Film)
2015 -2016
Films are shown with English sub-titles (unless otherwise noted) on:
Monday evenings @ 7:00pm ..........Doors open @ 5:30pm.
Donation of $15.00 includes: film viewing; salad, bread, pasta and meatballs.
Donation of $5.00 for film viewing only.
Cash Bar is available for wine and beer.
Spend a pleasant evening at the Foundation - good food and drink followed by entertaining films. We also feature a series of films that we consider classics of Italian filmdom. They will be shown consecutively on Mondays as noted by the schedule below.
NIAF Movie Schedule 2015-2016
Oct 5 Delitto D'amore (Crime of Love) 1974
A socio-political and romantic story of a couple melding the northern and sothern cultures of Italy while working in the Industrial North. The abuses by big business and disregard for migrant workers from the south are exposed.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 101 minutes long
Oct 19 Ginger & Cinnamon 2003
This light-hearted comedy is a valuable lesson in what it means to be a woman at any age.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 110 minutes long
Nov 2 Siamo Uomini o Caporali (Are We Men or Corporals?) 1955
Corporals are the power and bullies. Real men are the fools who can't win but can stick grit in the machinery.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 91 minutes long
Nov 16 A Summer in La Goulette 1996
This tender comedy takes a provacative look at sex, religion and tradition in tense and changing times.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 100 minutes long
Dec 14 Cose Dell' Altro Mondo (Things of Another World) 2012
An imaginative look at what it would be or not be with or without immigrant workers surrounded by all the politically incorrect hyperbole, wordplay and sarcastic quips.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 100 minutes long
Jan 4 Blame it on The Bellboy 1992
Actions by a bellboy cause a hilarious case of mistaken identities of three hotel guests, sending the trio down a road of comic, nonstop adventures.
English Approx 78 minutes long
Jan 11 Benvenuti Al Sud (Welcome to The South) 2010
A postal worker from Milan is transferred to southern Italy, which to a northerner is equivalent to a nightmare. He discovers instead, a fascinating place, peer affection, and hospitable people.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 106 minutes long
Jan 18 Cinema Paradiso (Paradise Cinema) 1990
A famous Italian director returns home to a Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years, and reminisces about his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 155 minutes long
Jan 25 Io, Loro e Lara (I, Them and Lara) 2009
A missionary priest, stationed in Africa, experiences a spiritual crisis and returns to Rome to seek guidance. In his father's home, he encounters Lara an enigmatic and astonishing character who brings chaos to the entire family.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 118 minutes long
Feb 1 Il Capitale Umano (The Human Capital) 2013
A story of tricky social dance of status, money and ambition between a privileged and middle-class family.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 106 minutes long
Feb 8 La Giusta Distanza (The Right Distance) 2008
A Tunisian mechanic and Mara, a substitute teacher fall in love. However, their lives will be turned upside down by unexpected events that change the course of the story.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 107 minutes long
Feb 15 La Visita (The Visit) 1963
Pina, a thirty something beauty, posts an ad in the personal column hoping to find a man to take her away from the tiny village where she lives.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 111 minutes long
Feb 22 Matrimoni ed Altri Disastri (Matrimoni & Other Disasters) 2010
Nana's love life has been at a standstill for the last three years. Her involvement in preparing her sister's Bridal Registry uncovers withheld famly secrets. At the same time, her future Brother-in-Law is falling in love with her. However, all ends well thanks to a broken laptop computer.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 91 minutes long
Feb 29 L'Imbroglio nel Lenzuolo (Confusion/Mess on the Sheet) 2010
1905 bring cinematography to southern Italy in which light rays projected on a "sheet" create life and reality. This doesn't bode well for a citizenry that is superstitions and believes in the evil eye.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 105 minutes long
Mar 7 La Scorta (The Escort) 1993
When a high profile judge is murdered, four reluctant cops are assigned as escorts to protect the replacement prosecutor from the mafia assassins.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 95 minutes long
Mar 14 Giovanni Falcone, the Judge 2006
This is a rel life story of one of Sicily's bravest sons who unmasked the Mafia during the 1980s-1990s by methodically following the money. His discoveries exposed the vast heirarchy of criminal families across Italy and around the world.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 100 minutes long
Mar 21 Borsellino, the 57 Days 2012
Paolo Borsellino was a close friend and fellow law student of Giovanni Falcone when they attended the University of Palermo. They collaborated in working cases against the Mafia. May 23, 1992 was the beginning of the 57 days in which he lived as a marked man.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 100 minutes long
Mar 28 The Key to the House (Chivai di Casa) 2004
This drama deals with a father's duties after his wife dies giving birth to a mentally and physically handicapped son.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 107 minutes long
Apr 4 The Last Vicory (L'Ultima Vittoria) 2004
This documentary captures all the drama, action and anguish that accompany this fiercely upheld tradition of the Palio bareback horse race which takes place annually.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 88 minutes long
Apr 11 Gli Zitelloni (The Inveterate Bachelor) 1958
In this comedy, Marcello is falling in love and seeks advice from the "Professor" Vittorio DeSica whose philosophy is: Men are not meant to be married.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 98 minutes long
Apr 18 La Doppia Ora (The Double Hour) 2009
An apparently docile chambermaid who emigrated from Lithuania is entangled in a web of crime, love and treachery.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 92 minutes long
Apr 25 Ladro di Bicicletta (The Bicycle Thief) 1948
Antonio faces desperation when his bicycle, which he relies on for employment in post World War II era, is stolen. He and his son search the city with success, but good fortune is not on his side.
Italian/English Subtitles Approx 93 minutes long
Admission
Pasta & Movies: $15
Movies Only: $5