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Benvenuti! Welcome!
Here is a list of all the upcoming ICC and ICC sponsored events. Hope to see you there!
Don't forget to check out our past events. We had fun! Come to the next one! PAST EVENTS ARCHIVE
MODENA the precious city of Emilia Romagna is coming to the Italian Cultural Center of San Diego.
 July 2, 2008 – from 6 pm to 8 pm at the ICC
Introduction by Clarissa Clo’, Program Director of the Italian Faculty of SDSU.
Representatives of the city of Modena will present the beautiful resources of this unbeaten destination in Italy through a lecture, slide show and video.
The city of Pavarotti, Ferrari, Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale, has much more to offer from its territory, food and wine production, artistic richness and artisan’s works.
Refreshments will be offered.
Limited seats! RSVP to Rossella, Membership Chair
tel. 858 740-4130 or rossella_broglia@yahoo.com
ICC in collaboration with San Diego Italian Film Festival presents:
FREE Italian Film Mini Series
Every first Thursday of the month at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Baboa Park (MoPA)
These films are known here as “Spaghetti Westerns” but in Italy as “Westerns all’Italiana”. All three are directed by Sergio Leone and star Clint Eastwood, with music by Ennio Morricone
For a Few Dollars More - July 3, 7:00pm MoPA
Free Admission
 In the early 60’s, a then obscure director, Sergio Leone, was given $200,000 and a load of leftover film stock and told to make a Western. With a script based on Akira Kurosawa's samurai epic Yojimbo, an American TV actor named Clint Eastwood, a music composer named Ennio Morricone, and a cameraman named Massimo Dallamano, Leone made Per un Pugno di Dollari -- A Fistful of Dollars. This violent, cynical and visually stunning film introduced The Man with No Name, the anti-heroic gunslinger for whom money is the only motivation and the villains are merely obstacles to be removed. Many later films followed this formula of the lone gunman in pursuit of money to the exclusion of all else. Leone's unique style, artistic camera angles, extension of time and raw, explosive violence presented a skewed view of the West, making his film different from any earlier Western.
If Sergio Leone defined the style of the Spaghetti Western, Morricone invented its music. His hoof beat rhythms, whistling themes, and the use of the human voice as an instrument became the standard for the scores to follow. Morricone's simple, haunting tunes did more than merely fill the gaps between passages of dialogue. They became an audible presence -- punctuating action, accelerating a chase scene, or driving a showdown to its conclusion.
ICC in collaboration with San Diego Italian Film Festival presents:
FREE Italian Film Mini Series
Every first Thursday of the month at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Baboa Park (MoPA)
These films are known here as “Spaghetti Westerns” but in Italy as “Westerns all’Italiana”. All three are directed by Sergio Leone and star Clint Eastwood, with music by Ennio Morricone.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly - August 7, 7:00pm MoPA
Free Admission
 In the early 60’s, a then obscure director, Sergio Leone, was given $200,000 and a load of leftover film stock and told to make a Western. With a script based on Akira Kurosawa's samurai epic Yojimbo, an American TV actor named Clint Eastwood, a music composer named Ennio Morricone, and a cameraman named Massimo Dallamano, Leone made Per un Pugno di Dollari -- A Fistful of Dollars. This violent, cynical and visually stunning film introduced The Man with No Name, the anti-heroic gunslinger for whom money is the only motivation and the villains are merely obstacles to be removed. Many later films followed this formula of the lone gunman in pursuit of money to the exclusion of all else. Leone's unique style, artistic camera angles, extension of time and raw, explosive violence presented a skewed view of the West, making his film different from any earlier Western.
If Sergio Leone defined the style of the Spaghetti Western, Morricone invented its music. His hoof beat rhythms, whistling themes, and the use of the human voice as an instrument became the standard for the scores to follow. Morricone's simple, haunting tunes did more than merely fill the gaps between passages of dialogue. They became an audible presence -- punctuating action, accelerating a chase scene, or driving a showdown to its conclusion.
For More information:  www.sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com
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October 2008
• 20 Italian films with English subtitles--Free
• Screened at the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA)
• Tickets may be purchased to the Gala—dinner, music, and a movie
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The second San Diego Italian Film Festival (the first was called Cinema Sud) will be presented in October. As a warm-up for the Festival we are now presenting a mini series of films.
The Festival will consist of 20 recent Italian films with English subtitles screened over a two week period in October. Entrance to the films is free, and on a first come first served basis.
The films are being provided by the Italian government through its Italian Institute of Culture in Los Angeles.
The films will be shown at the beautiful theatre of the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) in Balboa Park near the Prado restaurant.
Click here for more information on SDIFF
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