2003 film by Marco Tullio Giordana

Three-part series tracing the history of Italian opera presented by Antonio Pappano, world-renowned conductor and music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The series features sumptuous music, stunning Italian locations and some of the biggest names in opera as contributors.

影片将展现全世界天主教的中心梵蒂冈的内部运作，参与梵蒂冈珍宝与文物保护管理的人员也将在片中露面。(CHD) To mark the Papal visit to the UK, camera crew have spent a year filming a world that few have ever seen. With unprecedented access to the Vatican and the people who live and work there, this is a unique profile of the heart of the Catholic Church and the world's smallest Sovereign State. Archivists reveal the Vatican's secrets, including the signed testimony of Galileo recorded by the Inquisition. A Cardinal journeys deep below St Peter's Basilica to inspect the site claimed to be tomb of the Saint himself, and curators share a private viewing of Michelangelo's extraordinary decoration of the Sistine Chapel. An intriguing behind-the-scenes look at the workings of one of the world's most powerful and mysterious institutions.

威尼斯的风情总离不开“水”，蜿蜒的水巷，流动的清波，她就好像一个漂浮在酽酽碧波上浪漫的梦，诗情画意久久挥之不去。 这个不到8平方公里的城市，却被一百多条蛛网般密布的运河割成一百多座小岛，岛与岛之间只凭各式桥梁错落连接，初来乍到很快便会迷失在这座“水城”中。好在有大运河（Grand Canal）呈S形贯穿整个城市，沿着这条号称“威尼斯最长的街道”，可以饱览威尼斯的 精华而不用担心迷路。沿岸的近200栋宫殿豪宅和七座教堂，多半建于14至16世纪，有拜占庭风格、哥特风格、巴洛克风格、威尼斯式等等，所有的建筑地基都淹没在水中，看起来就像水中升起的一座艺术长廊。平日里大运河真的像一条熙熙攘攘的大街一样，各式船只往来穿梭其上，最别致的当然还是贡多拉（Gondola）。 虽说威尼斯的守护神和城市象征是圣马克广场上那头带翅膀的狮子，可在人们心中，说到威尼斯就自然会想到穿梭于水巷中的贡多拉。这是一种月牙形的黑色平底小船，几百年前，威尼斯贵族们喜欢乘坐雕刻精美，装饰着绫罗绸缎的贡多拉互相斗富。为了刹住这种奢靡的风气，威尼斯政府颁布了一条发令，禁止把贡多拉漆成彩色，于是，曾经争奇斗艳的贡多拉都变成了今天人们看到的黑色小船。 晚上乘一小时贡多拉的花费可以乘“水上公交”（Vaporetto）绕威尼斯30圈，可是即便昂贵，你又怎么舍得放弃夜游威尼斯的终极浪漫？夜晚的水面倒影着月色，经过一天的喧嚣，此时的河面重归平静，贡多拉在如丝般的碧波上静静前行。两岸爬满青苔的古老墙根发出特殊的潮湿气味，仿佛伸手可触。河水汩汩，船儿荡漾，让人忍不住幻想自己回到几百年前艺术辉煌一时的威尼斯，自己是王公贵族，正乘坐贡多拉，赴一场假面舞会。只有撑船的威尼斯小伙儿在狭窄水巷拐弯处的一声吆喝，才把人又带回到现实世界中来。 船行之处，处处有桥。威尼斯的桥有350座之多，最有名的莫过于叹息桥。它是连接总督府和监狱的一座封闭式的巴洛克风格的桥。至于为什么这座桥有这么个无奈的名字，说法很多。有个说法是一名死囚走过叹息桥时，透过桥上的窗户看到对面房子里自己的女友拥抱着新情人，不禁深深叹息。叹息桥因此得名。不管这个传说是不是有来由，至少现在的叹息桥已经成了恋人见证爱情的地方，据说只要在桥下拥吻，爱情就能天长地久。无数情侣在这里上演深情一幕，也算得是威尼斯的一景。 威尼斯的浪漫中多少掺杂一些凄美，地下水抽取过多，造成威尼斯的陆地不断下沉，再加上周期性的潮水，因水而美丽的威尼斯正在被洪水慢慢侵蚀。她还会为我们的世界美丽多久？这已经不是我们能够左右得了的事情。我们能做的仅仅靠近她，欣赏她，把心盛满浪漫的感受再离开。 威尼斯（意大利文Venezia）是意大利东北部的城市，市区涵盖意大利东北部亚得里亚海海边的小岛和邻近一处半岛。威尼斯有很多运河，有水乡的美誉。威尼斯中心旧市区街道狭窄，是行人徒步区，禁止汽车进入，是欧洲最大的无汽车地区。2003年人口274000人。 威尼斯的成立可回溯到568年。当时，意大利北部遭受伦巴底人（''Lombards''）的侵略，许多难民逃到威尼斯岛避难。在8世纪中，威尼斯人抵抗贝宾三世（''Pepin III''）的帝国扩展，而附属于拜占庭帝国。过后，威尼斯逐渐发展强大。当拜占庭帝国没落之时，威尼斯的自治权渐增，最后取得独立，成立威尼斯共和国 （9世纪至18世纪，1797年）。几百年来，统治威尼斯共和国的首领是威尼斯公爵（''Doge''）。 威尼斯城有七百年历史。最初由一群逃荒的人在一座小岛上建成。十三世纪十字军东征的时候，威尼斯人贡献了君士坦丁堡，成了地中海的霸主，后来威尼斯的繁荣富贵，艺术、回话、建筑、音乐的登峰造极都来源于此后三四百年间威尼斯在地中海的称霸和敛财。 本系列由威尼斯人Francesco da Mosto 通过电脑制作以及生动的描述，带我们领略意大利名城威尼斯的历史和文化。 共分四集： 第一集：Blood 血腥 一个宫殿的城市，一个充满黄金珠宝以及无与伦比的财富的城市，一个艺术之都-----威尼斯，她是怎样从沼泽中诞生，Da Mosto还向我们解释了威尼斯是怎样成为一个享有至高无上的荣誉的高贵之都 一个孤单的人怎样忍受各种各样的痛苦折磨，领导他的人民、他的城市实现复仇的 第二集：Beauty 美丽 一个拥有如此惊人的美丽的城市怎样脱胎于一个卑微的、木制结构的城市 史上最伟大的艺术家、建筑设计师包括Palladio和Titian等对于建设这个美丽城市作出怎样的贡献 第三集：Sex 性 到十八世纪的威尼斯，有两种东西深入人们的思想----那就是艺术和性. Casanova的《A History of My Life》详细的叙述了他本人的好色之性, 通宵达旦的开宴会，以艺术为借口，狂欢节的化妆舞会代表这种奢华的最高潮 第四集：Death 死亡 自从拜伦把这个城市作为游历的一个地方起，生活对于威尼斯人变得异常的艰难。1966年威尼斯经历了一场大洪水，之后现代化的思想也威胁着威尼斯----从把威尼斯和意大利本土连系起来的桥到扁平的教堂，大运河以及高速公路等等，这些都在改变这威尼斯

Mondovino (in Italian: World of Wine) is a documentary film on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions written and directed by American film maker Jonathan Nossiter. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and a César Award. The film explores the impact of globalization on the various wine-producing regions, and the influence of critics like Robert Parker and consultants like Michel Rolland in defining an international style. It pits the ambitions of large, multinational wine producers, in particular Robert Mondavi, against the small, single estate wineries who have traditionally boasted wines with individual character driven by their terroir.

两位意大利国宝级厨艺大师安东尼奥·卡路奇欧和詹纳罗·康塔多，回到阔别50年的祖国意大利，走遍意大利各个大区，回忆童年的味道，寻找融合的美味。第二季共四集，在第二季的旅途中，两位意大利名厨带领观众，在具有深厚底蕴的意大利美食中，提味意大利南方的童年回忆，意大利人的"扮靓"，意大利北方人的“求生之道”和意大利人的“男子汉气概”。

When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian.

For Le Genou d'Artemide Jean-Marie Straub once again chose a dialogue by Cesare Pavese. And not just any dialogue, but one that tears open a painful, mystical abyss between love and the one left behind. The film is one single exhilaration and one single rush, a spell and dispersion into nature. It rises from a dark screen and chant to disappear in the woods with the whisper of the wind. It has little to do with what is generally called «cinema». It has one foot in the world beyond. Nature has ten million times the imagination of the most imaginative of artists. (Jean-Marie Straub)

Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fragments of life, a radio announcer, an old uncle, alternate seats on its bearing, each in its own way, a trace of his brother loved. Stubborn not to go over and get lost in an endless race, Sergio is overwhelmed by memories and the music produced in pairs with Alfredo, which in Buddhism and in its foundations had found the strength to cope with the disease. Those notes that he believed buried and laid to always return overbearing and demanding a soundboard that resonate and express his being sound. Putting his hand on the piano, Sergio Alfredo feel again, giving the past with the present and realizing itself in the feeling.

2006 film by Cristiano Bortone

2015 film directed by Paolo Sorrentino

An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.

1983 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

1961 film by Ermanno Olmi

After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year-old Marta returns to a city in southern Italy with her mother and older sister. Independent and inquisitive, she joins a catechism class at a local church. However, the games and religious pop songs she encounters there do not nearly satisfy her interest in faith. Struggling to find her place, Marta pushes the boundaries of the class, the priest, and the church.

意大利撒丁岛，是一座位于西西里岛北部、马耳他南部的小岛。某日，岛上的一名渔夫向心爱的女人许诺，要把月亮献给她。一言既出，驷马难追，撒丁岛人一向言出必行，决不食言。这个消息很快传到欧洲大西洋情报部门，并迅速引起了上层的注意。欧洲、梵蒂冈和意大利的高层立即采取了行动。另一方面，消息也激怒了美国，他们认为这个渔夫侵犯了美国对月球的所有权。在特别行动小组中，有一名祖籍是撒丁岛的成员，由于他会说岛上方言，被委以重任抓捕那个买了月亮的人……

这本书首次将卡尔维诺从一九六四年起讲的所有宇宙奇趣的故事收录在同一本书中，本书也起到了一个有趣的作用，即把现代科学很难的概念变得轻松而且可见，达到建立一种更接近宇宙起源的神话而不是科学小说的文学种类。

《试刊号》是意大利作家翁贝托•埃科生前最后一部小说，通过一场阴谋重重的办报实验，对现代新闻业进行了深刻的剖析和批判。 一九九二年的米兰，几名记者加入一份正在筹备的日报，《明日报》，雄心勃勃地要在新的职位上大显身手。在电视和广播兴盛的时代，报纸的滞后性不言而喻，因此，《明日报》立志讲述“明日即将发生的事件”，通过深入调查，在新闻领域拥有某种“预见性”。他们精心研究过去的新闻，试图编出编一份模拟的“创刊号”。而在调查过程中，种种现实却不容置疑地跃入眼前。“人们都以为墨索里尼已经死了，而自1945年以来，意大利发生的每一件大事背后，都飘荡着他的幽灵…… ”一名记者突然提出这样的假设，正当人们怀疑他走火入魔时，一天早晨，他惨遭杀害。 此时，记者们才发现，这份报纸不过是一个诽谤和勒索的工具……是身为传媒巨头的幕后老板打入政治核心的垫脚石……

This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story "The Argentine Ant" moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.

How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo -- minimal diaries -- after the manazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parady." These essays are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, maniacal taxi drivers, express mail, multi-function watches, fax machines and cellular phones, pornography, soccer fans, academia, and -- last but definitely not least -- the authors' own self. How to Travel with a Salmon gives us Eco's acute vision of the absurdities of modern life.