<p>I took French I & II last year, and I love French music & movies. Now I'm starting Italian, and since listening to French music & watching French movies helped me so much, I'm wondering if anyone has some suggestions for Italian music or movies.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance! :)</p>
<p>I love Italian cinema! My favourite directors are Pasolini (I love, love Pasolini; favourites are Salo, Accatone, and The Gospel According to St. Matthew; you can sometimes find him playing like, late night on TCM), Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, La Strada are my faves), and Bernardo Bertolucci (many of his films aren't in Italian though). As with Michelangelo Antonioni.</p>
<p>Maybe one of the most accessible Italian directors, besides Fellini because he is so revered, is Franco Zeffirelli. He's most known for his Shakespeare over here, but he's done alot of opera into film. </p>
<p>Other directors are Roberto Rossellini (who married Ingrid Bergman, notably) and Visconti. The only thing I've seen by the latter is his Obsessione, though. </p>
<p>ha, I tend to see cinema by directors, especially Italian (and French, which I love). I should say any of these guys should be in the Criterion Collection and thus pretty accessible. Most of them are conisdered kinda neorealist-artsy over here though. One Italian film that I really like is Il Postino, which we watched in AP Lit. Might be hard to find though. </p>
<p>Hope this helped!</p>
<p>We watched "La Vita E/ Bella" (the 'e/' is a sad excuse for an 'e' with and accent mark) in AP Chem. I don't know Italian, but the actually story was very moving.</p>
<p>do watch la dolce vita. it is phenomenal.</p>
<p>Actually, La Vita </p>