Movie Series
Movie: “Paradiso”
The United Theater 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, United StatesThe 1990 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Movie: “Life is Beautiful”
The United Theater 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, United StatesWhen an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Movie: “The Godfather Part II”
The United Theater 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, United States1974 film, set in the 1920's, won 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Movie: “Paisan”
The United Theater 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, United StatesThis 1946 film spans one and a half years of the liberation of Italy towards the end of World War II. The movie consists of 6 episodes, starting with the American invasion of Sicily in the first episode. Subsequent episodes include Naples, Rome, Florence, and the Apennines mountains. The movie is included in the Italian
Movie: “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”
The United Theater 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, United StatesThe first movie for the film series in 2024 is "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" (released as "Ieri, Oggi, Domani" in Italy), a 1963 Oscar winning romantic comedy staring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, and Aldo Giuffrè. The film consists of 3 short stories, each of a woman (all played by Sophia Loren) living in different financial circumstances
Movie: “Spettacolo”
The United Theater 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, United StatesThe town that plays itself: This is a 2017 documentary of a small hill-town in Tuscany where every summer the citizens become actors, playing themselves. They dramatize and debate the town's problems in the piazza, which has become the stage for the event. The film is in Italian, with subtitles. It runs approximately 1½ hours
Movie: Il Sorpasso
The United Theater 5 Canal St., Westerly, RI, United StatesIl Sorpasso is considered one of the best examples of the Commedia all'Italiana, a cinematic form which, through comedy, offered a critique of Italian social and cultural changes.