TestaRossa

Soooo....how are you getting onto here??! Internet shop?

Anderson Council

Either using the computer at work or on my mobile phone. Which I check regularly to compensate for my lack of a social life.

TestaRossa

! Fair enough! Same here, - I have internet but no social life courtesy of a 6 year old!!

Patty

I dont watch italian tv and havent seen any italian films for ages. But I do remember many (too many) years ago when I very first came here and I could only watch italian tv. I have 2 films that I loved - although they are a bit old.
One was with Sofia Loren and Marcello Mastroiani - called Il Girasole.
The other has a long title: Travolto da un insolito destino nell azzurro mare d'agosto - with Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato.

I also really like Roberto Begnini - specially the films: Il Mostro (my favourite) and then Il Piccolo Diavolo and Johnny Stecchino. I liked La Vita e Bella but its too sad.

My OH likes Laura Pausini (singer) - personally I dont like her.

Lorna at Vicenza

Laura Pausini , Eros and ilk ............ we need a vomit smiley on here !!!

Anderson Council

I agree! Make one available on the site quick, before someone says they like Sanremo!

Patty

Have you ever listened to Lucio Battisti ? Some of it is a bit melancholy but there are alot of lovely songs. One of my favourites is 'Amarsi un po'.

Lorna at Vicenza

Does anybody like Sanremo

Anderson Council

I'm sure Laura Pausini and Eros do. (Although they probably don't frequent this site. Not that often, anyway).

DaniL

I'm glad I'm not just missing something and other people think Italian telly is rubbish! I found the other week there is Italian ready steady cook at lunch time. Sometimes the old black and white films of an afternoon sre interesting. I've never braved a whole novel in Italian, but have the Penguin parallel texts. Good for the lingo and finding interesting authors. In one of my reading practice books is the first chapter of a novel called Volevo i Pantaloni. I wanted to try to read the whole book but it's in Sicillian dialect and a half Sicillian friend told me it would be too difficult.
To be honest I haven't found any music I really like yet, the drivel that's on MTV can't be a balanced representation. Can it?

TestaRossa

I listen to Fantastica radio which I think is local to us DaniL. You can look it up on the net and it has the weeks play list - same songs all day but roughly a 100 of them I think!! They are both old and new English language and Italian, but I think it is quite a good representation of what is liked here!!!

Anderson Council

I read Volevo I Panteloni and actually quite liked it. They made a film of it too. The film's rubbish though.

ballerina

cheers!

ballerina

Ohhh I'm being enlightened now! I have to watch the films here in Italian because OH and flatmate and mates are all italian, so I get lumbered with the subtitles.. not a prob for me because I can imagine the real actors saying the phrases a particular way... and then if I watch the film again in English it's like watching a different film...but i do get that stuff would be lost in translation... my hearing just zones out the italian language... But I like the voices! I like how Homer Simpson in Italian sounds like the real Homer Simpson speaking Italian! but hate how they call Moe 'Boe'.

Hang on, you are all right... we started watching the Hurt Locker last night in Italian, it had been recommended to me by loads of people.. I began to think they'd all suggested the wrong film because it was so boring, I fell asleep after the first hour! could it have been more interesting in the original language? did they just change the english subtitles completely so all they talked about was bomb disposal for the first hour?? but im confused? who puts the english subtitles on the film???

ballerina

Thanks everyone for the theatre suggestions... didn't know if there would be a library in La Spezia.. something else for my list to check out!

Last summer, OH and I drove to Gallipoli from La Spezia (hours and hours and hours and hours long)and because I can't drive, he had to do the lot. So I read to him from Il Padrino (with the voices too!) and by the end of the journey, I felt like I'd picked up loads of Italian. I could only do it because I was stuck in a car for an eternity and felt a bit guilty about not sharing the driving but it was a good exercise to get to grips with pronunciations and certain verbs. I have the Penguin parallel books too... must dig them out...