Italian Culture & Heritage Lecture Series 2016: Film Screening & Lecture – From Wise Guys to Good Guys

The Italian Cultural and Community Center presents the Italian Culture & Heritage Lecture Series 2016. Tuesday, January 12 a Film Screening & Lecture – From Wise Guys to Good Guys: Food as Aphrodisiac in Bob Grimaldi’s Dinner Rush (2000). Presented by Dr. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder.

“The picture is a mouth-watering display of talent, technique and patience.  It seems astonishing that a young filmmaker knows exactly how photogenic the flamboyant shots of cooks making their skillets dance over flames bursting from the stoves are.” (for complete review–The New York Times )

Dr. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Arkansas.  He is the editor of the forthcoming collection entitled Pasolini’s Last Interview: Death, Eros and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini and the author of the forthcoming book, Divergenze in celluloidi: colore, migrazione, e identita’ nei film gay di Ferzan Ozpetek.

The ICCC is committed in the celebration and preservation of Italian Culture and Heritage. Every year we periodically host and promote Lectures on many different topics related to Italian Traditions and Culture, aiming to educate and entertain our Members and Friends. Art, Cinema, History, Science… these are just few of the many topics of our Lectures.

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