cinegelato | LATIN LOVER
CINEGELATO Thursday, August 7 | 6:30 PM LATIN LOVER Dir: Cristina Comencini Italy, 2014, 104 min With Angela Finocchiaro, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Virna Lisi, Marisa Paredes In Italian with English subtitles SYNOPSIS The late Saverio Crispo was Italy’s greatest movie star and a womanizer: his 5 daughters born from 5 different mothers in different parts […]
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mostra > FERLINGHETTI FOR SAN FRANCISCO
July 19, 2025 – July 19, 2026 FERLINGHETTI FOR SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor, Logan Gallery Learn more & buy tickets The exhibition Ferlinghetti for San Francisco at the Legion of Honor museum explores the artistic practice of one of San Francisco’s most beloved and significant cultural figures: Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021). A poet, activist, publisher, and […]
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cinegelato> TUTTO QUELLO CHE VUOI (Friends by Chance)
CINEGELATO 2025 Thursday July 17th | 6:30pm Tutto quello che vuoi (Friends by Chance) Dir: Francesco Bruni Italy, 2017, 106 min With Giuliano Montaldo, Andrea Carpenzano, Arturo Bruni In Italian with English subtitles REGISTER HERE Alessandro, twenty-two, is an uneducated and troubled man from Trastevere; Giorgio, eighty-five, is a forgotten poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. The […]
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FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY > Maria Manetti Celebrates La Dolce Vita! honoring Ennio Morricone
Tuesday, July 15 | 6:30PM Festival Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug 2800 Main Street | St. Helena Experience the enchantment of La Dolce Vita at this evening dedicated to the music of one of the world’s greatest film composers, the late Academy Award-winning Ennio Morricone. The celebration begins at Charles Krug, where the Festival […]
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FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY > Clelia Cafiero conducts Joyce DiDonato e Tessa Clark
Friday, July 11 | 6:30PM Festival Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug 2800 Main Street | St. Helena Festival Napa Valley kicks off its 19th Summer Season in grand style with a concert featuring three extraordinary talents. Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, hailed by The New Yorker as “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation,” […]
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cinegelato > SE DIO VUOLE (God Willing)
CINGELATO 2025 Thursday, July 3 | 6:30 PM GOD WILLING (Se Dio vuole) Dir: Edoardo Falcone Italy, 2015, 87 min With Marco Giallini, Alessandro Gassmann, Laura Morante, Ilaria Spada, Edoardo Pesce In Italian with English subtitles REGISTER HERE SYNOPSIS Tommaso is a respected heart surgeon, although his relationship with the “heart” is limited to the […]
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CINEGELATO 2025
CINEGELATO is back! Join us for a series of five movies and… gelato! All films are in Italian with English subtitles. Free admission | Registration required Thursday, July 3 | 6:30 PM GOD WILLING (Se Dio vuole) Dir: Edoardo Falcone Italy, 2015, 87 min With Marco Giallini, Alessandro Gassmann, Laura Morante, Ilaria Spada, Edoardo […]
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film > DICIANNOVE @FRAMELINE FILM FESTIVAL
WED, JUN 25 | 7:45 – 9:34 PM Frameline49 | DICIANNOVE Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco Driven by the bold visual flare you’d expect from a protégé of Luca Guadagnino, Giovanni Tortorici — who served as his assistant director on the HBO series We Are Who We Are — makes a striking directorial […]
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music > Chiara Izzi: Hits on a Journey
Chiara Izzi presents Hits on a Journey Wednesday, June 25 | 7 PM Keys Jazz Bistro 498 Broadway, San Francisco Friends of the Italian Cultural Institute receive a discount on tickets ($30 instead of $40). Discount code: LittleItaly LEARN MORE & BUY TICKETS The show explores a captivating cultural moment from the 1950s and ’60s, […]
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opera > LA BOHÈME
THU, JUN 19 & SAT, JUN 21 | 7:30 PM SF OPERA presents “LA BOHÈME” The Glow of Love. The Warmth of Friendship. The Ache of Loss. Rent is overdue, and the poet Rodolfo’s manuscript is reduced to kindling. But as the fire in the hearth dwindles, passion burns brightly amongst a group of young […]
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