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Cinema Dante, Asmara, Eritrea

November 15, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

cinema-dante-asmara-eritrea-image-credit-clay-gilliland“Cinema Dante is Asmara’s oldest cinema and has recently been renovated. It stands as testament to the size and scale of the cinemas in Asmara before the boom in the late 1930s, when the larger cinemas were constructed.” [. . .]     —Shabait, August 27, 2020

“During the last quarter of the last Century, the Italian colonial masters’ plan was to build a little Roma at the very heart of Midri Bahri. Following are the main schools, stadium, cinemas and opera houses called after the names of their artists, statesmen and poets: [. . .]

“Dante Alighieri, the Florentin was one of canonized men-of-letters who refined the Italian language to majestic height. The Cinema Dante, like Odeon and Cinema Asmara, were originally opera houses or reading and symphony arenas where the upper-class Italians used to entertain in their exclusive social world located at Campo Restrittivo (restricted camp or the later corrupted word Kombishtato).” [. . .]    –Haile Bokure, Eritrea Madote

Image credit Clay Gilliland

Contributed by Sephora Affa (Florida State University ’24)

Categories: Places
Tagged with: Africa, Art Deco, Asmara, Cinema, Colonialism, Eritrea, History, Monuments

France Štiglic’s The Ninth Circle (1960)

June 16, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“After the qualification of the digitally restored Štiglic’s film The Valley of Peace (1956) for the 2016 Cannes Classics competition, the celebration of the 60th anniversary of its making, and its Cannes premiere, the same director’s film The Ninth Circle (1960) was the third work of his that was screened in Cannes (the first one had been the 1949 film On Our Own Land).” [. . .]    —The Film New Europe Association, July 28, 2020

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 1960, 2020, Cinema, Circles of Hell, Croatia, Films, Inferno, Ninth Circle, Yugoslavia

Parc Dante, QC, Canada

September 1, 2019 By Alexa Kellenberger FSU '22

Parc Dante, or Dante Park in English, is a natural park in Montreal, QC, Canada. The park has an open air cinema that shows a selection of Italian films, with free admission for attendees.

You can learn more about Parc Dante’s film screenings here.

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2019, Canada, Cinema, Montreal, Parks, Quebec

Luca Lussoso, Dante (2014)

January 24, 2015 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Dante (2014).  Directed by Luca Lussoso and produced by Anna Elettra Pizzi De Gaetano of Elektra Films.

“Attraverso un film che fa riflettere sulle nostre azioni quotidiane, il regista raccoglie una sfida: riproporre la Divina Commedia, una pietra miliare della letteratura mondiale, in chiave moderna utilizzando le più moderne tecnologie digitali ed innovando i metodi per la divulgazione culturale.

“Luca Lussoso dipinge un aldilà elaborato e ricco di dettagli ai quali dare minuziosamente la caccia tra i versi della Divina Commedia.”    —Official website (last accessed July 11, 2017)

See the YouTube Subscriber page for more information (last accesssed October 3, 2020).

 

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2014, Cinema, Films, Italy

Yellow House, Dante: The Motion Picture

November 2, 2014 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Dante Motion Picture

Dante: The Motion Picture will be a cinematic effort by production company Yellow House to accurately represent The Divine Comedy‘s story and settings.

“One small production company taking on the challenge of creating a piece of cinema magic, based on the epic poem, The Divine Comedy.

“You’ve seen the cartoons and video game adaption tie-ins, but none of the films based on Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy quite cut it for an accurate portrayal of the events, locations and characters that readers have grown to love over the centuries. Fans of the material have been begging for Hollywood’s take on the classic Italian poem since the dawn of cinema, however, time and time again they have been left empty handed. [. . .]

“This is a live-action, all out ‘in your face’, portrayal of Dante’s journey. A journey fueled by his love for Beatrice while being led through the depths of hell by the seemingly all-knowing Virgil.”    —Dante: The Motion Picture’s Kickstarter

 

To donate to the project, visit their Kickstarter page by December 14, 2014.

Learn more at www.dantemotionpicture.com.

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2015, Cinema, Films, Kickstarter, New York City

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