Sergio Leone, ‘the Man with No English’, mimed directions to spaghetti western star Clint Eastwood
They made their names with A Fistful of Dollars, the first in a series of spaghetti westerns that became classics of 20th-century cinema. But the Italian director Sergio Leone had such a poor grasp of English that, between takes, he would repeatedly rely on the words “watch me” before miming whatever he wanted from his leading man, Clint Eastwood,...
Al Ferrara, 2-time World Series winner with Dodgers, dies at 84
Al Ferrara, an outfielder who won World Series championships in 1963 and 1965 with the Dodgers, died Friday. He was 84. Ferrara, nicknamed "The Bull," made his major league debut for the Dodgers on July 30, 1963, and remained in the organization through 1968. He batted .256 with 23 home runs in 249 games over five seasons with Los Angeles. During t...
Celebrating Sophia Loren on Nov 22 at 8 pm, Santa Monica (CA)
Friday November 22, 2024 | 8:00 pm. The Broad Stage, Santa Monica, California. Tickets here. Los Angeles will continue the celebrations of Sophia Loren's 90th birthday with a not to be missed musical extravaganza featuring tenor Pasquale Esposito accompanied by the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra conducted by Maestro Carlo Ponti. The program will p...
Italian prog-horror soundtrack masters Claudio Simonetti's Goblin return to SF
Best known for their haunting '70s soundtracks used in the films of gory giallo director Dario Argento, Italian progressive-rock outfit Claudio Simonetti's Goblin plays a career-spanning selection of horror movie themes when its current tour comes to the Regency Ballroom Wednesday night. Initially working under the monikers Oliver and Cherry Five a...
Inside the new Little Italy Museum and Cultural Center in San Jose
With the new Little Italy Museum and Cultural Center in San Jose now open to the public, people got their first chance to explore the restored house on West St. John Street at Sunday’s Little Italy Festival. Anyone who toured the old Beltramo house during the groundbreaking ceremony in 2020 can attest that architect Sal Caruso — and a team of build...
Women and the Transnational Making of Italy
Saturday, November 16 · 2 - 4pm PST. St. Joseph Cathedral, 1535 Third Avenue San Diego, CA This presentation will discuss three works by women: Rosalia Pianavia Vivaldi’s colonial diary Tre anni in Eritrea (1901), Sibilla Aleramo’s memoir Una donna (1906) and Marie Hall Ets’s transcribed oral storytelling Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant (197...
Sophia Loren: La Diva di Napoli
From November 07 2024 To November 30 2024. Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Los Angeles - 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. In celebration of Sofia Loren's 90th birthday, the Academy Museum presents this overview of some of her most enduring performances. The series will open with Vittorio De Sica’s “Two Women” (La Ciociara), which earned...
Italian Drama ‘Pagliacci’ is Season Opener for Opera Santa Barbara
Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) will open its 2024-25 season with Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” Nov. 8 and 10 at the Lobero Theatre. Based on a true story, Pagliacci “Clowns” tells the tale of Canio, leader of a commedia dell’arte troupe, who murders his wife and her lover on stage during a performance. The opera is emblematic of the style known as “verismo,...
Carnival Firenze, now sailing out of Long Beach, offers ‘Fun, Italian Style’
Italy and Mexico are separated by an ocean and a gulf, and yet the two countries share much in common. They both speak a romance language, fly a similar green, white and red national flag, and when it comes to soccer — or football as it’s called in these birthplaces of pastas and tostadas — their mutual obsession is at fever pitch. Leave it to Cali...
Il Cinema Ritrovato in tour 2024
From October 24 2024 To October 26 2024. Loyola Marymount University - 1 Loyola Marymount University Dr, Los Angeles, CA. RSVP here. Loyola Marymount University is hosting Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour, a festival on rediscovered and restored films that is a celebration of cinema’s history. This 8th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour at LMU boa...
Six Characters in Search of an Author in San Diego
Saturday October 19 2024, 14:00 (Local time). St. Joseph’s Cathedral (Auditorium) 1535 Third Ave, San Diego, CA. Tickets here. After premiering at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles and Chapman University, Nick Gabriel‘s new adaptation of SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR (1921) by Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello, is presented in...
Tollo, Italy hosts Fullerton delegation and celebrates Sister City relationship in honor of Tommy Lasorda
Although Tollo is world-renowned for its food and wine traditions, the small town of 4,000 inhabitants is also known for its connection to the late and great global baseball spokesman Tommy Lasorda, who lived in Fullerton, California for nearly sixty years and whose parents hailed from this quaint mountain village in Abruzzo. A large delegation fro...