
Baroque Dreaming Into Contemporary Opera
- Music
Mysticism, Feminism, and the Power of Nature
View details about the event: Baroque Dreaming Into Contemporary OperaIn conversation with Antonio Monda
Overview
This event is part of Le Conversazioni
Forgotten Gems
with Kent Jones
Kent Jones, director and film critic
in conversation with
Antonio Monda, NYU
In ENGLISH
Forgotten Gems is a series that takes place at Casa Italiana as part of the literary festival Le Conversazioni that focuses on films that the speakers believe worthy of being [re]discovered. Antonio Monda and his guest each choose three films to present and discuss (accompanied by clips). This season’s first guest is filmmaker and critic Kent Jones.
The selected films are:
Numero Zero (1971, Jean Eustache)
Il mondo nuovo (1982, Ettore Scola)
Love Streams (1984, John Cassavetes)
Scarecrow (1973, Jerry Schatzberg)
Hangmen Also Die (1943, Fritz Lang)
Le tentazioni del Dottor Antonio (1962, Federico Fellini)
Bonus:
High Anxiety (1977, Mel Brooks)