Chefs Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo return to Italy. The pair visit the region of Campania and look at how poverty created Italy’s best-loved cuisine. Watch it on : BBC iplayer
The Courtauld’s Renaissance collection comprises important paintings from both Italy and northern Europe. It includes one of the few altarpieces by Botticelli to be housed in a museum collection together with works by Venetian masters such as Lorenzo Lotto and Tintoretto. Read more: Courtauld Gallery
Two wild nights with Ludovico Einaudi and La Notte della Taranta orchestra, and special guests Mercan Dede, Ballake Sissoko and Savina Yannatou. 25 – 26 June 2011 / 19:30 Barbican Hall London
Bernardo Bertolucci has won an Oscar, scandalised the world, and directed some of the most beautiful films ever to grace the screen. David Thompson introduces the first part of this retrospective of a cinema maestro. 11 April – 31 May BFI London Read more: bfi.org
Quando non sai come si dice, usa le mani! Just another way to speak(?) italiano… How to do Italian hand gestures? Here are some basic and useful gestures. Learn Italian hand gestures with this youtube lesson con un insegnante molto divertente… Click here and Learn Italian with videos Anche gli Azzurri parlano a gesti.. Click here and Learn Italian with Italian songs…
SIFF LONDON – BEST OF THE FEST 2011 The Salento International Film Festival Is a celebration of films and filmmakers, promotes international independent films, in recognition of the fact that movies are the most powerful form of cultural communication and link between cultures’ and peoples’. Read more: Italian Cultural Institute
1st-10th April Italian Cinema London Festival Venues: Riverside Studios, Genesis, Phoenix Read more : Italian Cinema London
Date: Friday, March 18, 2011 Opening times: 7pm Venue: Italian Cultural Institute
Il volo dell’angelo: Meraviglioso
After the screenings at the Cine Lumiere, the Italian Cultural Institute in London will be hosting a celebration of film and food, showing gourmet classics in conjunction with dishes and fine wines served afterwards. 15 films and 7 documentary films will be screened from 11 to 31 March in collaboration with Cinecitta’ Luce Filmitalia, Cineteca di Bologna and STEFILM. More…
