One of the great international film traditions, the Italian cinema weathered hard years through the late 1980s and 90s, but in the person of Nanni Moretti it has had its great and indefatigable torchbearer. Anxiety over decline – of a leftist resistance, of a non-commercial cinema, of plain old aging and human frailty – is essential to Moretti’s films, which often find him front and center as alter-ego Michele Apicella, but in his hands this becomes the stuff of bittersweet comedy. Documentary and fiction form, ideological seriousness and absolute irreverence – all mix and mingle in these remarkable movies that can only be labelled as “Moretti.”

Calendar:

PALOMBELLA ROSSA
Wednesday October 18
7:00pm
1989 / 89MIN / 35MM

APRILE
Wednesday October 18
9:30pm
1998 / 78MIN / 35MM

CARO DIARIO
Friday October 20
7:00pm
1993 / 100MIN / 35MM

THE SON’S ROOM
Saturday October 21
4:00pm
2001 / 99MIN / 35MM

IL CAIMANO
Saturday October 21
6:30pm
2006 / 112MIN / 35MM

Presented with support from Italian Cultural Institute