[Soma]

recommend some!
i've got world movies so i've seen heaps but forgotten all the names.
The movie we do for extension "Jack Frusciante e' uscito dal gruppo" is ok i guess

[Hottieflossy]

i recommend "Barrio" from director fernando leon de aranoa. its the film we do for spanish extension so i recognise that its not italian. its a good film and has the same issues as Jack Frusciante ( or so im told).

[iambored]

of course la bella vita
cinema paradisio is meant to be good i think

[s2ophie]

I saw L'ultimo bacio last year which was quite good.

Also i think its this month, an Italian film festival is touring around australia with new movies aswell as most of Fellini's wors cos its an anniversary of his death i think. i have a pamphlet but i'll get back to you guys about it co i will have to find it

[s2ophie]

the film festival is on sydney Oct 16th-29th.


website is www.italianfilmfestival.com.au

you can all go on my behalf!

[iambored]

thanks for that, but damn the hsc... there's always next year

[Niente]

I LOVE Roberto Benigni. 'La vita e bella' is my all time favourite movie. I love the little boy in it, he's adorable. I also love 'il Postino' and 'Cinema Paradiso'. I absolutely love all things italian. 'l'aragosta e un crostaceo' lol. :)

[s2ophie]

ciao niente! i like you name!

In my italian classroom we had a huge poster of il postino but i have never seen the movie.

[iambored]

a new person! ciao ciao! spero che ritorni per postare! (is that a word?)

[s2ophie]

postare? yeah i say its a word. if not, i'll pretend it si for your sake! My friends and i always make up words in italian. Particularly when we are talking about other people in Italian when they are standing right in front of us :p!

[Niente]

I don't do Italian for my HSC, but I did it in year 9 and 10 and I have been there twice! I am very lucky! Has anyone else been there?

Does anyone know of a place called 'Gubbio'? I went to the 'Festa de Ceri' which was absolutely awesome. It is a little medieval town and I love it! I also love florence, I really liked Venice the first time I went but last time it wasn't as good for some reason. I think there were too many tourists.

What are some of your fave Italian words? I have a few little sayings I like, mostly from movies and ones I have learnt from our Italian friend.

LOL once I accidently told a girl that I don't have mad cow disease. She was talking about mad cow disease and I was trying to say that we don't have it in Australia but it came out 'Non ho la mucca pazza' and it took me a little while to realise what I said meanwhile everyone was laughing:D .

You should really see il postino, it's really good in my opinion. It's really cute :).

[arls]

thats pretty funny niente!! Ive said some pretty funny mistakes while i was overseas (even though i learn italian) but they dont beat that!

I loved florence too, especially fiesole the lil town that overlooks florence. I stayed in a lil town called Vicchio, about 1 hour from Florence (without the horendous traffic) in the Mugello region. Che belle memorie!! and i adored Venice, it was just gorgeous. and Roma era belllissima! i love all of italy, and can't wait to return.

il mio fraso preferito sarebbe .... "sogni doro" - literal translation golden dreams, but means sweet dreams. I say it to someone everynight! its just soooo cute!

[s2ophie]

In year 10 we used the 'Forza' books - did anyone use them? Anyway one of the places that they had a story about was Gubbio!

I loved siena, probably because we stayed htere the longest but also because the nannini gelati there was so bloody fantastic!

The most stupid thing i actually said to an italian was when we were over there we met some students and i was talking to them about learning english. They said they didn't like it much and i said 'E' molto stupida' as in english is a stupid language they took it that i was saying the guy i was talking to was very stupid! It took me a while to work out why they were giving me looks!

[Niente]

haha, yeah I can relate to that! Sometimes I found it really difficult to figure out whether people were yelling at eachother or having a friendly chat. Did you find that? It's just that the Italians are so animated! But I love that about them, I think Italians are awesome!

My Italian is really rusty because I don't use it much and I've forgotten most of it. So I ran into those sort of situations fairly often. lol.

I absolutely loved the Ufizzi gallery in Florence. Did anyone go there? It was heavenly for me.

My favourite sayings:
Vai via cane'
l'aragosta e' un crostaceo
struzzi i cameli
buongiorno principessa! (don't you think that is so cute?!)
che schifo

That's all I can think of right now :p

[iambored]

Originally posted by arls
"sogni doro"
that;s gorgeous, i love it
Originally posted by Niente
haha, yeah I can relate to that! Sometimes I found it really difficult to figure out whether people were yelling at eachother or having a friendly chat.

I absolutely loved the Ufizzi gallery in Florence. Did anyone go there?

buongiorno principessa! (don't you think that is so cute?!)
che schifo

haha the yelling part, yeah
what was in the gallery in florence?
i also love thos last 2, the first because of la vita e' bella, i love the sound of it
Originally posted by s2ophie
My friends and i always make up words in italian. Particularly when we are talking about other people in Italian when they are standing right in front of us :p!
haha, it's like you have your own secret language

i have never thought of favourite sayings, if i come acorss any i will try and remember them now, but che schifo is up there

[s2ophie]

I'm going through a 'Non ho ancora deciso' stage - i say it all the time - not very intereseting but its pissing my friend off something shocking!

The only gallery i went to in florence la galleria dell'accademia where the David is. Now that is impressive! WHo else has seen it?

[arls]

Vai via cane'
l'aragosta e' un crostaceo
struzzi i cameli
niente what do these mean?? I can't figure it out and coulnt b bothered looking them up!

I went to uffizzi also, it was stupendous! I loved it... and Sophie i think i went to galleria dell'accademia, cause i certainly saw david.. wait maybe that was the statue of david in piazzo michaelangelo.. the one overlooking all of florence.. now im confused!

I also love the passion of Italians.. i found myself in Italy becoming an extremly extroverted person, with Sooo much confidence, because thats how Italians generlly seem to be. It was great, and they treat Aussies tourists sooo well.. especially if you've got blonde hair and you go to florence!!!!

we used to use italian as a secret language too, at parties or at school talking about other people.... and we too made up stuff that didn't exist by adding "i" or "o" or a vowel to an aussie word. Sooo useful when you wanna chat about someone and theyre right there!!

[s2ophie]

Originally posted by arls
we used to use italian as a secret language too, at parties or at school talking about other people.... and we too made up stuff that didn't exist by adding "i" or "o" or a vowel to an aussie word. Sooo useful when you wanna chat about someone and theyre right there!!

hehe
best thing to do is say a long sentence that has nothing to dow ith anything and insert someone's name in the middle. guaranteed to piss them off in no time! :D

"Il mio tempo 'Liz' libero mi piace andare alla piscina!

[s2ophie]

oh actually on the topic of movies - has anyone seen 'respiro'? Its coming to my local cinema in november so i figure its either in Sydney at the moment or has been already.

[iambored]

Originally posted by s2ophie
The only gallery i went to in florence la galleria dell'accademia where the David is. Now that is impressive! WHo else has seen it?
yeah, i loved it
Originally posted by s2ophie
"Il mio tempo 'Liz' libero mi piace andare alla piscina!
haha!

and no i have not seen the movie, haven't even heard of it

[arls]

i wish i had the time to go to the italiano flim festival.... guess il have to wait till they come out on vid.

[iambored]

yeah, i want to go next year though, it's a pity it isn't on later! like after the hsc

[arls]

yeah... who was so insconsiderate?? that just pisses me off. I mean what do they really think that Hsc students should have to wait a whole year until next years film festival?? they should have their priorities right!!

waaaaaayyyy to much study... thats wat turns me like this.... omg, I didn't think id eva become a nerd... but i am! cant wait to become my normal self again after hsc...

[Niente]

vai via cane' = go away dog
struzzi i cameli = something about strutting camels but I'm not quite sure :p
l'aragosta e' un crostaceo = the lobster is a crustacean

I saw Davide, it was very stunning! But what really impressed me was the Botticelli room in the Ufizzi! It was heavenly!! Did anyone see Filippo Lippi's work? That is one of my absolute favourites! Botticelli was Lippi's apprentice. I just LOVE renaissance artwork. I could have stayed there all day! but there were too many tourists :(.

[iambored]

come to think about it, we don't have any are here!

[arls]

vai via cane'! Che comica! Thats great, ill remember to use it in my exam... NOOOTTT i think the examiner would be a lil worried... my Italiano class decided to do abusive letters in Italian once, like just as a joke, pretending that the "friend in Italy" in our prac in class writing task, was a real bitch, and that we'd had a HUGE argument on the phone just to see what my teacher would say..

Its still Italian we'd say.. and wouldn't the markers be impressed by the originality of the letter? wouldn't be another like it!

We got told just to stick with the happy ones, with the dumb idiomatics etc and the corny lines like the ones i posted before.. markers can be sooo boring!

[iambored]

Originally posted by Niente
vai via cane' = go away dog
struzzi i cameli = something about strutting camels but I'm not quite sure :p
l'aragosta e' un crostaceo = the lobster is a crustacean

but are they meant to mean something else? like "the cat's got your tongue" doesn't mean that in english

[Kakie]

<<struzzi i cameli>> sarebbe "camel shit" no?

[Niente]

Nah they are all off Life is beautiful... they're not really proverbs or anything, just little things I like saying :).

[iambored]

k, i thought they were! i can't remember them at all
Originally posted by arls
yeah... who was so insconsiderate?? that just pisses me off. I mean what do they really think that Hsc students should have to wait a whole year until next years film festival?? they should have their priorities right!!

waaaaaayyyy to much study... thats wat turns me like this.... omg, I didn't think id eva become a nerd... but i am! cant wait to become my normal self again after hsc...
and u started the 'positive' thread.... :)

[dior1]

bummp
just after some more titles of movies in italian that possibly have eng subtitles so i can actually understand what they are saying =]