An actor (and director) of incredible artistic talent, Paul Newman was one of the most admired performers in the history of American cinema, having brought unforgettable characters to life, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. Giunti Odeon pays tribute to the great actor with three of his most important films, authentic masterpieces directed by as many great directors.

At Giunti Odeon the concert of Classical Indian Singing, with the world's greatest exponent of the ancient tradition of Indian singing in the Dhrupad style: Pandit Ritwik Sanyal. The maestro will be accompanied by Francesco Gherardi (tabla) and Chiara Barbieri (tampura).

Tickets can be purchased at the cash desk in the bookshop, at the totem inside the bookshop or by clicking here: 

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Three films released in recent years that have entered the collective imagination of our time. Winners of numerous Oscars, directed by great directors and starring famous actors, these three films are now to be regarded as true new cinema classics.

Luca Mazzucchelli, with his book "86,400. A Practical Guide to Changing Your Life with Value-Based Intelligence" (Giunti Psicologia.io), will present a step-by-step method to discover your guiding values and understand how to place them at the center of your growth project. This approach will ignite your value-based intelligence, helping you live a meaningful and fulfilling life. On stage at GO, Luca will be in conversation with Alessandro Lombardo, CEO of Giunti Psicologia.io.

The Book: Every day, at the stroke of midnight, 86,400 seconds are deposited into the bank account of our life. If they were 86,400 euros, we would spend them with great care, ensuring not to waste a single cent. However, because time is free, we often use it unconsciously on activities that pull us away from happiness. Living a life of value means first and foremost investing these 86,400 seconds each day in alignment with our values—the reasons that make life worth living. The book also offers insights on how to use values to improve psychological well-being, interpersonal relationships (at work, in romantic relationships, with children, and friends), stress management, as well as leadership, public speaking, and sales skills. Knowing your values and learning to use them provides a clear compass to guide your life, uncover dormant energy to achieve your goals, stay on course during difficult times, and unlock your potential for change.

The Author: Luca Mazzucchelli is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and entrepreneur who shares psychological insights daily with hundreds of thousands of people through his social media channels. He is the scientific director of MindCenter, the psychotherapy and coaching centers he founded, and a speaker at conventions for some of Italy's largest companies. In 2019, the popular TV show X Factor enlisted him as a mental coach to help bring out the potential and talent of the contestants, and the Italian Coaching Association recognized him as one of the ten individuals who will most influence training and coaching in Italy in the coming years. He is a lecturer in Emotional Coaching at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, and for Giunti Editore, he has authored best-selling books such as Fattore 1%, L’era del cuore, and Psicologia a strappo. 60 pensieri da leggere, conservare e condividere con le persone che ami

Beauty and the star-system, talent and fragility, the lights of the cinema and the shadows of life: Giunti Odeon pays tribute to one of the most extraordinary divas in the history of cinema, Marilyn Monroe, with three of her most famous and iconic films, authentic masterpieces directed by as many great directors. 

On the occasion of the release of his new film, BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE, at Giunti Odeon (at 9 pm), we pay tribute to Tim Burton, one of the creative geniuses of world cinema and one of the most versatile and fascinating artists of our time, thanks to his ability to shape a unique and unmistakable poetic universe. Giunti Odeon dedicates a tribute to the great American director and artist with a selection of his most famous films, all in original version with Italian subtitles.

Since 1923, films made by Disney have enchanted several generations, each time surprising us with their timeless and ageless stories. Today, a century later, Giunti Odeon celebrates this great dream factory by proposing a selection of shorts and films, suitable for young and old, made in recent years by Pixar, one of the world's most famous animation studios and part of the Disney universe.

In 1923, Walt and Roy Disney began an adventure that would change the history of cinema forever. Since then, the films made by Disney have enchanted several generations, amazing us each time with their timeless and ageless stories. Today, a century later, Giunti Odeon continues to celebrate this great dream factory by proposing a selection of great Disney classics, with the most famous films, suitable for young and old, to be enjoyed all together and continue to dream... 

The films of two immense masters of the history of cinema offered at Giunti Odeon in splendid and extremely rare restored versions. We start with the 34 comedies interpreted and shot by Charlie Chaplin for the Keystone Company between 2 February and 7 December 1914. In less than twelve months Chaplin went from being an almost unknown vaudeville actor to a film star. He learnt to conceive, direct and edit his own films: just one year of whirlwind activity and a world taking shape, a character gradually taking possession of his own suit, a filmmaker conquering his place in front of and behind the camera. The Keystone comedies record, in real time, and with a dynamism, vitality and energy that are unrepeatable, the birth and evolution of one of the 20th century's most universal characters. It continues with three overwhelming masterpieces by Buster Keaton: ‘Cops’ (1922), ‘The High Sign’ (1921), ‘Neighbours’ (1921). 

Wes Anderson is one of the masters of contemporary cinema, beloved by audiences around the world for his unmistakable style and poetics. Giunti Odeon dedicates a tribute to the great American director with a selection of his most famous films, all in original version with Italian subtitles.  

Alessandro Martire & the Wambli Gleska Cultural Association, in collaboration with Giunti Odeon, present Wolakota 2024.

From Tuesday, September 17th to Sunday, September 29th, a new edition of Wolakota will take place, an annual event that brings together Italian institutions and members of the Lakota and Dakota Nations from South Dakota. The event is organized by the Wambli Gleska Cultural Association.

For the occasion, Giunti Odeon will host an ethnographic exhibition featuring the private collection of Alessandro Martire, which includes artifacts from Native American peoples. Additionally, on September 17th, the opening day of the exhibition, there will be a presentation of Alessandro Martire's new book, published by Giunti, titled Il pensiero dei Nativi americani. La via Lakota all’equilibrio at 6:30 PM. During the presentation, the author will converse with journalist Mario Tenerani. The day will conclude with a screening of the cult film Dances with Wolves directed by and starring Kevin Costner at 9:00 PM.

The Book:

On that hill, I realized that being Lakota does not mean having braids or smoking the ca’nunpa; becoming Lakota means staying constantly connected with the sacredness of life, embracing the responsibility of living this existence in a respectful way and in harmony with the gifts of creation and with every sacred form of life that was created before us. Among all the creatures in the universe, only man, by losing his connection with nature and consequently with himself, has condemned himself to live in an indifferent and competitive society, insensitive to the harmony of creation: this is one of the main thoughts of the Lakota Sioux. In the early 1980s, Alessandro Martire embarked on a journey to North America: through a path that, starting from the Rosebud Reservation and Buffalo Jump, passes through Bear Butte, the Badlands, Zuni Heaven, and the Black Hills, up to Pipe Stone Quarry and Mato Pila (mistakenly called “Devil’s Tower”), he will learn to live and think like Native Americans. Accompanied by an exceptional guide, Grandma Leola One Feather, a member of the Lakota Women's Society Council, the author discovers and shares with readers the secrets of a culture deeply rooted in the union with nature, the spirit of brotherhood among all living beings, and the importance of taking the right time for everything. Like the Native Americans, we too must learn not to worry about the natural passage of time and to give back to the earth everything we have received but continue to plunder. Only then will we be able to learn the most important lesson: finally finding a balance with all forms of creation. Because, as Leola teaches, “the first step is learning to give.”

The Exhibition:

Alessandro Martire will lead the public on a guided tour of the exhibition. The exhibit includes artifacts from one of the richest collections in Europe, featuring a remarkable array of objects of high-quality craftsmanship and historical-anthropological interest. The exhibition takes place in the Hall of Mirrors at Giunti Odeon and is open to the public until September 29th, with free admission, every day from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM. For groups or guided tours, contact: alex@alessandromartire.it.

The Author:

Born in Florence, Alessandro Martire is the last living descendant of Pietro Martire D’Anghiera, a 16th-century historian and author of the treatise De Orbe Novo, in which he denounced the massacres committed by the Spanish against the Native American peoples. After a period at Columbia University, he came into contact with the Lakota Sioux Nation of the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations and participated in sacred ceremonies, including the Sun Dance. After returning to Italy in 1990, he became an associate professor of Cultural Anthropology and International Law at the University of Florence and collaborated with the University of Pisa and Alma Mater of Bologna. In 2009, the Italian Senate thanked Alessandro Martire for his legal work over more than twenty-six years and officially recognized the international legal acts promoted and adopted by the Italian government in favor of the Lakota Sioux. He is currently the delegate in Italy and at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva for the Lakota Sioux Nation, Honorary Member of the Lakota Sicangu Nation of Rosebud, Sun Dancer, and Sacred Pipe Carrier.

www.alessandromartire.it

For more information about the Wolakota 2024 event:

www.wolakota.it
Wambli Gleska Cultural Association: www.wambligleska.org

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Beauty and the star-system, talent and fragility, the lights of the cinema and the shadows of life: Giunti Odeon pays tribute to one of the most extraordinary divas in the history of cinema, Marilyn Monroe, with three of her most famous and iconic films, authentic masterpieces directed by as many great directors. 

The Australian who reinvented the musical and sentimental genre, conquering Hollywood. Giunti Odeon pays tribute to the visionary, colourful and pop talent of Baz Luhrmann, one of the most original and controversial directors of contemporary cinema, with two of his most famous films.

The five meetings dedicated to ‘Cinema and Literature’ represent a first project of educational offerings for a structure, Giunti Odeon, that has in books and films, and in their creative interaction, its main cultural vocation. Film and literature are two profoundly different languages that have nevertheless found, throughout the 20th century and up to the present day, an extraordinary common ground of interaction. The aim of this atelier is to provide readers/viewers with the basic tools they need to orient themselves in the face of a series of questions concerning the many ways in which these languages have dialogued. Authors, trends, genres, poetic and stylistic forms, and industrial practices will be the focus of an itinerary that, far from being exhaustive, will propose some ‘keys’ to open the doors to a world of images, words and cultural suggestions. 

Dangerous Liaisons: around adaptation

This is the first issue referred to when thinking about the relationship between cinema and literature, i.e. the transformation of a literary text into a film. We therefore address the various issues related to the practice of adaptation, i.e. the ‘passage’ from one language to another, through the 3 main forms and 7 main tools, with a reference to the different historical and production contexts. After this more historical-theoretical introduction, we move on to the analysis of some sequences from two films based on as many novels by Guy de Maupassant: Le plaisir (1952) by Max Ophüls and La scampagnata (1936) by Jean Renoir, to explain how two great directors transform the classic literary text into a reflection on space-time through the language of cinema.

The subscription to the entire Atelier (euro 100, nominal and including five 90' encounters) can be purchased from 27 August at the bookshop checkout. 

François Truffaut: the writer with the camera

Continuing on the question of adaptation, one cannot leave out a great author like François Truffaut, because no one more than he (an omnivorous reader) has tried to creatively integrate the two languages, according to a precise authorial idea, merging them to perfection. All of Truffaut's ‘inventions’ for the adaptation of Jules et Jim (1960) from Henri-Pierre Roché's novel and for that of The Green Room (1978), based on Henry James, are therefore analysed.

The subscription to the entire Atelier (100 euros, nominal and including five 90' meetings) can be purchased from 27 August at the bookshop's cash desk. 

The Feeling of Time: Visconti-Dostoevsky-Mann

Going beyond the theme of adaptation, in this meeting we enter into the heart of another question: how a great master of Italian cinema used literary sources to talk about his (historical) time and his dimension as an individual and artist in the second half of the 20th century. We therefore analyse two very different films by Luchino Visconti: Le notti bianche (1957) from Fedor Dostoevsky and Death in Venice (1970) from Thomas Mann. In the texts of the works of these two great writers, whom he feels are very close to him, Visconti finds the ‘cinematic form’ to reflect on (his) Time.

The subscription to the entire Atelier (euro 100, nominal and including five 90' encounters) can be purchased from 27 August at the bookshop's cash desk. 

Writing and the gaze: Joyce-Huston-Antonioni

The writing and cinema of the ‘crisis’: what outlet did the anxieties and experiments on language that characterised the 20th century find in the transition from literature to cinema? We start with an analysis of the final part of one of the fundamental stories of twentieth-century literature, James Joyce's The Dead, to arrive at two films based on it, John Huston's The Dead and Michelangelo Antonioni's The Night (with a brief mention of Ejzenstein), in which we see how Joyce's epiphany is transformed into the subject-look of cinema (especially in the endings of the two films).

The subscription to the entire Atelier (€ 100, nominal and including five 90' encounters) can be purchased from 27 August at the bookshop box office. 

A genre: the French polar from Fantômas to Maigret

The last meeting is dedicated to more consumer literature, the serial one, with particular reference to the genre that has always been most loved by readers and the public, still today: the detective story, in its variants. The French case is analysed, where literary and cinematographic seriality was born at the beginning of the 20th century as the heir to the 19th century feuilleton and evolved as a product of the nascent mass cultural industry, moving on to the birth of a genre, the polar, which also bears in its name the fusion of cinema and literature, ending with Georges Simenon's creation of a character such as Inspector Maigret, an inexhaustible source for books, cinema and television.

The subscription to the entire Atelier (euro 100, nominal and inclusive of five 90' meetings) can be purchased from 27 August at the bookshop's cash desk. 

A genre: the French polar from Fantômas to Maigret

The last meeting is dedicated to more consumer literature, the serial one, with particular reference to the genre that has always been most loved by readers and the public, still today: the detective story, in its variants. The French case is analysed, where literary and cinematographic seriality was born at the beginning of the 20th century as the heir to the 19th century feuilleton and evolved as a product of the nascent mass cultural industry, moving on to the birth of a genre, the polar, which also bears in its name the fusion of cinema and literature, ending with Georges Simenon's creation of a character such as Inspector Maigret, an inexhaustible source for books, cinema and television.

The subscription to the entire Atelier (euro 100, nominal and inclusive of five 90' meetings) can be purchased from 27 August at the bookshop's cash desk.