Forgotten Gems with Kwame Anthony Appiah

This event is part of Le Conversazioni

Forgotten Gems
with Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Author, philosopher

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 fifth and final guest is author and philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah.

The selected films are:
Mandabi (1968) by Ousmane Sembene
Bellissima (1951) by Luchino Visconti
Victim (1961) by Basil Dearden
The Dresser (1983) by Peter Yates
Young Törless (1966) by Volker Schlöndorff
Mother Night (1996) by Keith Gordon

Bonus film:
I vitelloni (1953) by Federico Fellini