Cinema, Music, Literature - your recommendations?
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Ah, no, that's the point! "Supposedly" from the Book Depository...Who was on the grassy knoll?!
But if you knew that already, smarty pants, why the ????? :P
But if you knew that already, smarty pants, why the ????? :P
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I must admit I quite like a Lino Banfi film(the older ones),they are silly but make me laugh...but the 'Natale a.....' films are horrendous and Cristian de Sica is so slimy even on the phone ads on tv I can't abide him.I often find in the more 'serious' Italian films that to me, the actors seem to be over acting but I suppose it is just the style.
Music wise I do like Tiziano Ferro because he writes his own stuff and ha sa really nice voice....and also Jovanotti and Zucchero but i can take or leave Vasco Rossi.oh and Antonello Venditti(sp?) is ok too.I like Ligabue but only to look at
Most of my reading is in English...........it's more relaxing.........apart from Tex!!
Music wise I do like Tiziano Ferro because he writes his own stuff and ha sa really nice voice....and also Jovanotti and Zucchero but i can take or leave Vasco Rossi.oh and Antonello Venditti(sp?) is ok too.I like Ligabue but only to look at
Most of my reading is in English...........it's more relaxing.........apart from Tex!!
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I must admit I quite like a Lino Banfi film(the older ones),they are silly but make me laugh...but the 'Natale a.....' films are horrendous and Cristian de Sica is so slimy even on the phone ads on tv I can't abide him.I often find in the more 'serious' Italian films that to me, the actors seem to be over acting but I suppose it is just the style.
Music wise I do like Tiziano Ferro because he writes his own stuff and ha sa really nice voice....and also Jovanotti and Zucchero but i can take or leave Vasco Rossi.oh and Antonello Venditti(sp?) is ok too.I like Ligabue but only to look at
Most of my reading is in English...........it's more relaxing.........apart from Tex!!
Music wise I do like Tiziano Ferro because he writes his own stuff and ha sa really nice voice....and also Jovanotti and Zucchero but i can take or leave Vasco Rossi.oh and Antonello Venditti(sp?) is ok too.I like Ligabue but only to look at
Most of my reading is in English...........it's more relaxing.........apart from Tex!!
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I've heard of Tiziano Ferro but not heard him. I'll investigate that one, thanks. I have this theory that while English and American actors try to be as "natural" as possible, Italian actors try to appear as "intense" as possible. There are very few I like. Massimo Troisi, the guy from Il Postino, was an exception though.
My son has seen Life is Beautiful and told me it was worth watching. I think he watched it at school as part of his history study.
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I agree with your son. It's not great and shouldn't have won all those Oscars, but it's worth watching. Although there is something a little yucky about the way he turns the concentration camp into a "joke" (but it's for his kid so it's sort of ok). Troisi was in another film called Le Vie Del Signore Sono Finite which was lovely.
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music: Gino Paoli, Pino Daniele, Lucio Dalla, Mario Biondi (italian but sings in english)
authors: Italo Svevo
actors/films: none. especially no to the "Natale in ....", Banfi, and Beningni.
I've seen all of Troisi's films (had to. part of my initiation ceremony when I first arrived in Italy together with all of Eduardo De Filippo's plays. My OH tried to make me watch "il grande" Toto' but I had to draw the line somewhere)
authors: Italo Svevo
actors/films: none. especially no to the "Natale in ....", Banfi, and Beningni.
I've seen all of Troisi's films (had to. part of my initiation ceremony when I first arrived in Italy together with all of Eduardo De Filippo's plays. My OH tried to make me watch "il grande" Toto' but I had to draw the line somewhere)
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I tried to watch Toto one day out of fascination...I never got Abbott and Costello or Laurel and Hardy though so this was never going to work!!!
Do the Marx Brothers count??! I love Duck Soup! "Free, free Fredonia!" Sorry...I'll go and put my daughter to bed now....
Do the Marx Brothers count??! I love Duck Soup! "Free, free Fredonia!" Sorry...I'll go and put my daughter to bed now....
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The only Italian CD I ever bought is by the singer/songwriter Rino Gaetano.
A group of friends and I used to go a bar where it was often playing and they all knew the words and would sing and jump around. I liked it so I bought it.
I still like it today and my favourites from the album are Berta Filava, Gianna and Aida.
He died in 1981 in a car crash aged just 30. I suppose you could say he was quite contemporary and wacky for his time.
Don't know much about films but Il Ciclone by Leonardo Pieraccioni was good and not pathetically stupid like films with De Sica and Carlo Verdone.
A group of friends and I used to go a bar where it was often playing and they all knew the words and would sing and jump around. I liked it so I bought it.
I still like it today and my favourites from the album are Berta Filava, Gianna and Aida.
He died in 1981 in a car crash aged just 30. I suppose you could say he was quite contemporary and wacky for his time.
Don't know much about films but Il Ciclone by Leonardo Pieraccioni was good and not pathetically stupid like films with De Sica and Carlo Verdone.
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Ohhh when I said Lino Bafi, I didn't know he did all those Natale a... films, which I wold never choose to watch!! I like the old bits like the one where he claps his hands and slaps his head when he has a great idea that he has just stolen from the poor schmuck standing next to him
I'd forgotten about Il Postino and Life is Beautiful too! I've not watched Il Postino for a long long time now and I did really like Life is Beautiful, but like I said before, sometimes Roberto Benigni can be a bit too much for me. a bit too hyper. Another Italian film I saw recently was Romanzo Criminale.. don;t remember too much about it but that it was not bad. OH is trying to find Il Capo Dei Capi for me with English subtitles... it is his new mission in life..
Io e Marilyn is another he is trying to get me to watch, anyone seen it? I've made excuses so far - I'm a fan of Marilyn but don't fancy watching an Italian film with a lookalike..
On another note, is anyone else really rather impressed with the Italian voiceovers on English/American films and TV? On The Simpsons (I know, not highbrow lol) the timbre of the voices are equal to the original! and other films, the Italian voices are very similar in timbre to the originals! Very impressive! And why is it so difficult to find DVDs in England with Italian subtitles?? Every other language but!
I'd forgotten about Il Postino and Life is Beautiful too! I've not watched Il Postino for a long long time now and I did really like Life is Beautiful, but like I said before, sometimes Roberto Benigni can be a bit too much for me. a bit too hyper. Another Italian film I saw recently was Romanzo Criminale.. don;t remember too much about it but that it was not bad. OH is trying to find Il Capo Dei Capi for me with English subtitles... it is his new mission in life..
Io e Marilyn is another he is trying to get me to watch, anyone seen it? I've made excuses so far - I'm a fan of Marilyn but don't fancy watching an Italian film with a lookalike..
On another note, is anyone else really rather impressed with the Italian voiceovers on English/American films and TV? On The Simpsons (I know, not highbrow lol) the timbre of the voices are equal to the original! and other films, the Italian voices are very similar in timbre to the originals! Very impressive! And why is it so difficult to find DVDs in England with Italian subtitles?? Every other language but!