MONTHLY SERIES/SAN DIEGO

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MONTHLY SERIES/SAN DIEGO ~

San Diego

  • Digital Gym
    1100 Market St
    San Diego, CA 92101

  • Thursday, January 30
    Ieri, oggi e domani

    Thursday, February 20
    Sedotta e abbandonata

    Thursday, March 27
    I soliti ignoti / Big Deal On Madonna Street 

    Thursday, April 24
    C’eravamo tanto amati

    Thursday, May 22
    Mafioso

Monthly Series

Enjoy the best in Italian cinema throughout the year. The San Diego Italian Film Festival organizes monthly screenings at various locations throughout central San Diego including at the Digital Gym Cinema at UC San Diego Park & Market in Downtown and the Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park.

Thursday, January 30, 2025
Ieri, oggi e domani |
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

  • Digital Gym Cinema

    Thu. 1/30 - 7:00 PM

    $16.00 GA
    $12 SDIFF Members
    $7 Students & Military

  • Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film at the 1964 Academy Awards, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. In Naples, they are poor but resourceful, selling black market cigarettes on the streets. In Milan, Loren is costumed in Christian Dior and debates her preference for a Rolls Royce or her husband. And in Rome, Mastroianni is a scion of a wealthy family who helps Loren’s prostitute set a wavering priest back onto the spiritual plane. This episode features Sophia’s famous striptease, which was recreated 30 years later in Robert Altman’s Ready To Wear. Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio de Sica is picture-postcard beautiful and effortlessly hilarious.


    In Italian with English subtitles.

  • Year: Italy, 1963, 118 mins

    Directed by: Vittorio De Sica

    Screenplay: Eduardo De Filippo, Cesare Zavattini, Billa Zanusso, Isabella Quarantotti

    Editing: Adriana Novelli

    Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno

    Music: Armando Trovajoli

    Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffré, Agostino Salvietti, Armando Trovajoli, Tina Pica, Gianni Ridolfi, Gennaro Di Gregorio

    Production: Carlo Ponti

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Thursday, February 20, 2025
Sedotta e abbandonata |
Seduced and Abandoned

  • Digital Gym Cinema

    Thu. 2/20 - 7:00 PM

    $16.00 GA
    $12 SDIFF Members
    $7 Students & Military

  • Shotgun weddings, kidnapping, attempted murder, emergency dental work—the things Don Vincenzo will do to restore his family’s honor! Pietro Germi’s Seduced and Abandoned was the follow-up to his international sensation Divorce Italian Style, and in many ways it's even more audacious—a rollicking yet raw series of escalating comic calamities that ensue in a small village when sixteen-year-old Agnese (the beautiful Stefania Sandrelli) loses her virginity at the hands of her sister’s lascivious fiancé. Merciless and mirthful, Seduced and Abandoned skewers Sicilian (and Italian) social customs and pompous patriarchies with a sly, devilish grin.

    In Sicilian and Italian with English subtitles.

  • Year: Italy, France 1964, 122 mins

    Directed by: Pietro Germi

    Screenplay: Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Pietro Germi

    Editing: Roberto Cinquini

    Cinematography: Aiace Parolin

    Music: Carlo Rustichelli

    Cast: Stefania Sandrelli, Aldo Puglisi, Saro Urzì, Lando Buzzanca, Lola Braccini, Leopoldo Trieste, Umberto Spadaro

    Production: Lux-Ultra-Vides, Compagnie Cinématographique de France

Thursday, March 27, 2025
I soliti ignoti | Big Deal on Madonna Street

  • Digital Gym Cinema

    Thursday, February 27 - 7:00 PM

    $16.00 GA
    $12 SDIFF Members
    $7 Students & Military

  • An all-star cast and jazzy score highlight this charming comedy, a deft satire of classic caper films. Big Deal on Madonna Street hilariously details the plight of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves—a veteran crook, a cocky young gun, and a sweet safecracker—and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist. 


    In Italian with English subtitles.

  • Year: Italy, 1958, 102 mins

    Directed by: Mario Monicelli

    Screenplay: Age & Scarpelli, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Mario Monicelli

    Editing: Adriana Novelli

    Cinematography: Gianni Di Venanzo

    Music: Piero Umiliani

    Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Totò, Claudia Cardinale, Tiberio Murgia, Memmo Carotenuto, Carlo Pisacane, Carla Gravina, Rossana Rory, Nino Marchetti, Gina Rovere, Elena Fabrizi, Gina Amendola, Elvira Tonelli

    Production: Vides Cinematografica, Cinecittà, Lux Film

Thursday, April 24, 2025
C’eravamo tanto amati | We All Loved Each Other So Much

  • Digital Gym Cinema

    Thursday, April 24 - 7:00 PM

    $16.00 GA
    $12 SDIFF Members
    $7 Students & Military

  • This beloved classic of commedia all’italiana is a beautifully bittersweet tale of friendship, nostalgia, and cinema. Over the course of thirty years, we follow the lives of three friends—Antonio (Nino Manfredi), Gianni (Vittorio Gassman), and Nicola (Stefano Satta Flores)—who go from fighting the Nazis together during World War II to experiencing the full spectrum of life’s joys and disappointments as they see their once-strong bond tested by love, politics, and time. Studded with allusions to Italian film history—including a cameo from Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni recreating the famed Trevi Fountain sequence from La dolce vita—C’eravamo tanto amati is a film as rich in humor and melancholy as life itself.


    In Italian with English subtitles.

  • Year: Italy, 1974, 120 mins

    Directed by: Ettore Scola

    Screenplay: Age & Scarpelli, Ettore Scola

    Editing: Raimondo Crociani

    Cinematography: Claudio Cirillo

    Music: Armando Trovajoli

    Cast: Nino Manfredi,Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli, Aldo Fabrizi

    Production: Deantir

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Thursday, May 22, 2025
Mafioso

  • Digital Gym Cinema

    Thursday, May 22 - 7:00 PM

    $16.00 GA
    $12 SDIFF Members
    $7 Students & Military

  • In Alberto Lattuada’s brilliant dark comedy Mafioso, auto-factory foreman Nino (Alberto Sordi) takes his proper, modern wife and two blonde daughters from industrial Milan to antiquated, rural Sicily to visit his family and get back in touch with his roots. But Antonio gets more than he bargained for when he discovers some harsh truths about his ancestors—and himself. One of the first Italian films to look frankly at the Mafia, Lattuada’s devastatingly funny character study is equal parts culture-clash farce and existential nightmare.


    In Italian and Sicilian with English subtitles.

  • Year: Italy, 1962, 95 mins

    Directed by: Alberto Lattuada

    Screenplay: Rafael Azcona, Marco Ferreri, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli

    Editing: Nino Baragli

    Cinematography: Armando Nannuzzi

    Music: Piero Piccioni

    Cast: Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti, Ugo Attanasio, Cinzia Bruno, Katiuscia, Armando Tine, Lilly Bistrattin, Michèle Bailly, Francesco Lo Briglio, Carmelo Oliviero

    Production: Antonio Cervi

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