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Library Items

VIDEOS—NON-FICTION:

The Alps (VHS 914.94 ALPS)

- Description and travel video

- Explore the Alpine areas of Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and West Germany. View sports, natural scenery, industry and cultural events behind the scenes.

Caravaggio and the Baroque (VHS 759.5 CARA v. 5)

- Masterpieces of Italian Art Series

Cooking secrets of the CIA. Braising (VHS 641.5 COOK)

- American cookery (braising)

- This tape shows the preparation and cooking of veal shanks & turkey Italian sausage with Italian cassoulet and beef roulade with braised red cabbage & spaetzle.

An evening with Placido (VHS 782.42 PLAC)

- Placido Domingo recorded live June 21st 1987 at Wembley Arena, London.

- Opera arias and songs sung in Italian, German, and Spanish, with English narration.

Formal gardens (VHS 639.5 GARD)

- Gardens of the World Series hosted by Audrey Hepburn

- Travel from the Renaissance gardens of Italy, the grand 17th century gardens of France to the lushly planted 20th century gardens of England.

Great moments in opera from the Ed Sullivan show Vol. 1-2: the greatest names in the opera world singing the arias that made them famous (VHS 782.1 GREA)

- Includes Leontyne Price, Roberta Peters, Robert Merrill, Beverly Sills, Richard Tucker, Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, and others.

Healthy choices Italian (VHS 641.5945 HEAL)

- Home economist and educator Marietta Pagani shows how to prepare delicious, low fat, high flavor Italian foods.

Italy: the hilltowns of Tuscany ; the Italian Riviera (VHS 914.5 ITAL)

- Travel the World Series hosted by Rick Steves

- Rick Steves visits San Gimignano, Assisi, Orvieto, and other points of interest in Tuscany, then travels to Cinque Terre, Manarola, Corniglia, Monterosso, and the rest of the Italian Riviera.

Italy : Rome ; Naples & the Amalfi Coast (VHS 914.5 ITAL)

- Travel the World Series hosted by Rick Steves

- Rick Steves visits the remarkable treasures of the Eternal City, then travels to the bustling city of Naples.

Italy: Venice ; Florence (VHS 914.5 ITAL)

- Travel the World Series hosted by Rick Steves

- Rick Steves visits the Grand Canal and Saint Mark's Basilica. Learn how to maneuver the maze of canals and view the city. Experience the richness of Florence.

Joy of talking Italian (VHS 458.3421 JOY)

- Introduction to Italian grammar, pronunciation and body language.

The Magic of Venice (VHS 914.531 VENI)

- Doug Jones travelog series

- Visit the grandeur of Venice with its canals, gondolas, St. Mark's Square, the Doge's Palace, glass blowers, and markets.

Masterpieces of Italian art. Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian (VHS 759.5 MAST)

- Masterpieces of Italian Art Series tape 4

- A look at the pinnacle of the Renaissance artistic achievement.

Opera favorites by Puccini (VHS 782.1 OPER)

- Selections from Madame Butterfly, Tosca, La Boheme, Manon Lescaut, and Turandot taken from live, complete performances filmed on the stages of London's Royal Opera House and Italy's Arena di Verona.

Otello (VHS 782.1 OTEL)

- Otello, Verdi's last tragic opera, was the result of his very successful collaboration with Boito, the librettist who adapted the original Shakespeare play with masterly skill. Otello, a tragic story of love and intrigue, is considered by many to be one of the greatest of all Italian operas.

Roman city (VHS 937 ROMA)

- Shows how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them and used these cities to link their vast empire into a commercial and political unit. Live-action and animated segments.

Travel the world. Alps (VHS 914.94 TRAV)

- Travel the World Series with Rick Steves

- Highlights of the history, culture, and beauty of the Alps including Tyrol, Italian Dolomites, Milan and Lake Como.

The true story of gladiators (VHS 937 TRUE)

- History's mysteries series

- Colosseum (Rome, Italy) -- History

Gladiators

VIDEOS—FICTION:

Big Night (VHS BIG)

- Comedy starring Minnie Driver, Isabella Rossellini, Stanley Tucci, and Tony Shalhoub.

- The story of two brothers whose Italian restaurant is on the brink of bankruptcy. Their only chance for success is to risk everything they own on an extravagant feast for bandleader Louis Prima.

Cinema Paradiso (VHS CINE)

- Starring Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, and Antonella Attili.

- Cinema Paradiso is the story of a lifelong love affair with the movies and also a story of the friendship between a young Italian boy and a movie projectionist.

*Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 1989

Enchanted April (VHS ENCH).

- Starring Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Josie Lawrence, and Polly Walker.

- Two proper, middle-class English women, bored with their lives and their passionless husbands, spend a month on vacation in a medieval villa on the Italian Riviera.

A Farewell to arms (VHS FARE)

- World War I drama starring Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, and Adolphe Menjou.

- First screen version of Hemingway's novel by the same name about romance and desertion during World War I in Italy.

From Here To Eternity (VHS FROM)

- Starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, and Donna Reed.

- A drama about life in the regular Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion.

- Based on the novel by James Jon.

Good night, Michelangelo (VHS GOOD)

- Directed by Carlo Liconti; Starring Lina Sastri, Kim Cattrall, Daniel Desanto, and Giancarlo Giannini.

- An offbeat, sexy comedy about a family of first generation Italian immigrants to Toronto in 1957.

Moonstruck (VHS MOON)

- Starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, and Danny Aiello.

- A sophisticated romantic comedy about the lives, jealousies, and entanglements facing an Italian-American family from Brooklyn.

*Winner of 3 Academy Awards

Tea with Mussolini (VHS TEA)

- Comedy directed by Franco Zeffirelli; Starring Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, and Lily Tomlin.

- Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini is a story about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935.

Three coins in the fountain (VHS THRE)

- Comedy; Based on the book of the same title by John H. Secondari; Starring Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Rossano Brazzi, and Maggie McNamara.

- Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into the Fountain of Trevi.

Two women (VHS TWO)

- Directed by Vittorio DeSica; Based on the book by Alberto Moravia; Starring Sophia Loren, Jean Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, and Eleanora Brown.

- During World War II, a mother and her 13-year-old daughter are attacked and brutally raped by a group of soldiers. Regaining consciousness, the mother discovers her young daughter has lapsed into a state of shock and is mentally disturbed.

- Dubbed in English

VIDEOS IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE:

Bellissima (VHS BELL)

- Directed by Luchino Visconti; Starring Anna Magnani, Tina Apicella, Gastone Renselli, and Walter Chiari.

- A poignant tale about a movie-struck mother who puts on a frantic campaign to get her little girl into the movies.

Big Deal on Madonna Street (VHS BIG)

- Directed by Mario Monicelli; Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Claudia Cardinale, Renato Salvatori, and Carla Gravina.

- Satire on burglary films in the guise of the misadventures of a group of amateur thieves.

Fellini Satyricon (VHS FELL)

- Story and screenplay by Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi; Starring Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, and Salvo Randone.

- Fellini recreates the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome, a universe unconcerned with human dignity and obsessed with perverse sex.

Ginger & Fred (VHS GING)

- Director, Federico Fellini; story, Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra; Starring Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni.

- Two small-time entertainers, who used to imitate Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, are reunited for a nostalgic television variety show.

Ladri di biciclette (The bicycle thief) (VHS BICY)

- Based on the novel by Luigi Bartolini; Starring Lamberto Maggorani, Enzo Staiola, and Lianella Carnel.

- An unemployed man gets work for which his bicycle is essential. Its theft and the man's desparate attempt to recover it evoke a story of deep poignancy.

*Academy Award winner in 1949 for most outstanding foreign language film

La Vita e Bella (Life is beautiful) (VHS LIFE)

- Directed by Roberto Benigni

- A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. But then, that life is threatened by World War II...and a beloved wife and son are saved from an unthinkable fate.

*Winner of Academy Awards for 1998 best actor (Roberto Benigni), best foreign language film, and best dramatic score

Miragolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan) (VHS MIRA)

- Director, Vittorio de Sica; Based on the novel Toto il Buono by Cesare Zavattini; Starring Branduani Gianni, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Emma Gramatica, Gugielmo Barnabo, and Brunella Bovo.

- Comedy, satire, and realism are combined in a fantasy about the social conceits of man. An Italian orphan, with the aid of a miraculous dove, combats power and wealth and succeeds in bringing happiness to the inhabitants of a Milanese hobo camp.

Il Postino (The Postman) (VHS POST)

- Starring Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta.

- The postman, Mario, enlists the aid of the poet Pablo Neruda to conquer the heart of the beautiful Beatrice.

Riso amaro (Bitter rice) (VHS BITT)

- Starring Vittorio Gassmann, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, and Raf Vallone.

- In the rice fields of the Italian Po Valley a thief on the run meets a girl who tries to steal his loot.

Roma, Citta aperta (VHS OPEN)

- Directed by Roberto Rossellini; Starring Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, and Aldo Fabrizi.

- Rossellini's classic is representative of neo-realistic cinema. The story takes place in Rome during the Nazi occupation when a priest who is helping the Italian resistance fighters is discovered and arrested by the SS.

*Best picture 1946 Cannes Film Festival

La Strada (VHS STRA)

- Directed by Federico Fellini; Starring Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart.

- This award-winning film tells of the slow-witted innocent who falls for an abusive circus strongman.

*Silver Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1954

*Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1956

*Best Foreign Film from the New York Film Critics Circle in 1956

Umberto D (VHS UMBE)

- Starring Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Genari.

- An elderly man lives alone, except for his dog, on a meager pension determined to retain his dignity to the end.

DVDS (covering all branches of Smithtown Library):

8 1/2 SI-DVD 2001

Captain Corelli's mandolin SK-DVD 2001

The Pope of Greenwich Village SM-DVD 2001

Gladiators bloodsport of the Colosseum SM-DVD 2000

Golden bowl SM-DVD 2000

Malena SM-DVD 2000

Il Postino The Postman SM-DVD 2000

Return to me SM-DVD 2000

The talented Mr. Ripley SI-DVD, SM-DVD 2000

Tea with Mussolini SM-DVD 1999

Amarcord I remember SM-DVD 1998

A gala Christmas in Vienna SM-DVD 1998

Moonstruck SM-DVD 1998

Marcello Mastroianni I remember SM-DVD 1997

La vita e bella (Life is beautiful) SI-DVD, SM-DVD 1997

Cinema paradiso SM-DVD 1990

Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) SM-DVD 1972

BOOKS—NON-FICTION—ITALY GUIDEBOOKS:

Bed and blessings Italy: a guide to convents and monasteries available for overnight lodging (Walsh, June) (647.9445 WALS)

Let’s go Italy (914.504 LETS 2001)

Fodor’s Italy (914.504 FODD 2002)

Frommer’s Italy (914.504 FROM 2002)

Italy: a Lonely Planet travel survival kit (Gillman, Helen) (914.504 GILL)

Rick Steves’ Italy (914.504 STEV 1999)

The Knopf traveler's guides to art—Italy (Langdon, Helen) (915.5 LANG)

BOOKS—NON-FICTION—ITALY DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL:

Cento citta: a guide to "the hundred cities & towns" of Italy (Hofmann, Paul) (914.5 HOF)

Italian Days (Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti) (914.504 HARRISON)

Straddling the borders: the year I grew up in Italy (Cummings, Martha T) (914.504 CUMM)

BOOKS—NON-FICTION—COOKERY ITALIAN:

Cooking the Italian way (Bisignano, Alphonse) (641.5945 BISI)

La cucina Siciliana della casa- Sicilian home cooking: family recipes from Gangivecchio (Tornabene, Wanda) (641.59458 TORN)

Italian holiday cooking: a collection of 150 treasured recipes (Scicolone, Michele) (641.568 SCIC)

Lidia's Italian-American kitchen (Bastianich, Lidia) (641.5945 BAST)

Verdure: simple recipes in the Italian style (Vitale, Gioietta) (641.65 VITA)

The young chef's Italian cookbook: [step-by-step fun recipes for young chefs] (Gioffre, Rosalba) (Q 641.5945 GIOF)

Sweet Sicily: the story of an island and her pastries (Granof, Victoria) (641.86 GRAN)

The Italian-American cookbook: a feast of food from a great American cooking tradition (Mariani, John F.) (641.5945 MARI)

David Ruggerio's Italian kitchen: family recipes from the old country (Ruggerio, David) (641.59457 RUGG)

BOOKS—NON-FICTION—ITALIAN AMERICANS:

Bruculinu, America: remembrances of Sicilian-American Brooklyn, told in stories and recipes (Schiavelli, Vincent) (641.59458 SCHI)

Finding Italian roots: the complete guide for Americans (Colletta, John Philip) (929.108951 COLL)

Mangia, Little Italy!: secrets from a Sicilian family kitchen (Romina, Francesca) (641.5945 ROMI)

Some kind of wise guy: stories about parents, weddings, modern living, and growing up Italian (Ervolino, Bill) (817.54 ERVO)

Were you always an Italian?: ancestors and other icons of Italian America (Laurino, Maria) (973.0451 LAUR)

BOOKS—NON-FICTION—ITALY CIVILIZATION:

The Renaissance: a short history (Johnson, Paul) (940.21 JOHN) (also available as an audiobook on CD)

Sprezzatura: 50 ways Italian genius shaped the world (D'Epiro, Peter) (945 DEPI)

PERIODICALS:

The magazine of la cucina Italiana (issued bi-monthly; library holdings- current 1 year)

- Published by The Mediterranean Gourmet & Travel Company

- Covers Italian cookery and description and travel