Presented by Associazione Napolicinema and supported by MiBACT DG Cinema

5:00pm
I bambini ci guardano (The Children Are Watching Us)
Italy, 1944 • 84 minutes • Italian (English subtitles)
director Vittorio De Sica
screenplay Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Giulio Viola, Gherardo Gherardi, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Zavattini and Margherita Maglione
with Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola, Adriano Rimoldi, Giovanna Cigoli

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair's subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family's disintegration.
(High Definition Digital Transfer courtesy of The Criterion Collection)

6:30pm: Panel featuring NYU Professors Stefano Albertini and Antonio Monda

7:00pm
Matrimonio all'italiana (Marriage Italian Style)
Italy, 1964 • 101 minutes • Italian (English subtitles)
director Vittorio De Sica
based on Eduardo De Filippo's play Filumena Marturano
screenplay Renato Castellani, Tonino Guerra, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi
with Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano

One of the most famous, and funniest, Italian comedies of all time, Marriage Italian Style received nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Actress for Sophia Loren, at the Academy Awards®. Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman Domenico, who discovers Loren's Filumena as a young prostitute and keeps her as his mistress and confidante. When he chooses to marry a young cashier instead of her, Filumena is furious, and resorts to a series of wild and hilarious ruses to win back his hand.
(High Definition Digital Transfer courtesy of Kino Lorber)

Source: http://www.casaitaliananyu.org/