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September Cineforum Starts Tomorrow
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This month's theme will focus on the revolution created by computers and the internet, starting off tomorrow evening with Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999). ------------------- O ICBIE gostaria de convidá-lo para as exibições de filmes do nosso Cineforum. Tema do...
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Sign Up for New ICBIE Courses
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The ICBIE is happy to announce its richest offering of courses in many years!  In addition to the Italian courses previously announced, there will be three-month long courses in beginning and intermediate English, taught by one of our best volunteers...
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August Cineforum and New Italian Courses
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There's plenty of activity at the ICBIE these days.  Tonight begins a new monthly cycle of films for the Cineforum, this time dedicated to the transformative power of sports, starting with Cinderella Man, Ron Howard's great 2005 film about boxing....
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Proibido Ler – Reading Forbidden
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Tomorrow night at 7 PM the Little Theater Company of the ICBIE will present the premiere of  Reading Forbidden, a Walk through a Sheet of Paper, a multimedia performance in one act and thirteen scenes, directed by Francesca Tagliaferro.  ...
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Pietro & Roy’s ICBIE Road Trip in the USA
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During the last two weeks of June, the ICBIE founders made a whirlwind tour in the United States, to trumpet our cause and build, strengthen and energize our wonderful network of American supporters. The first stop was in New York,...
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July Cineforum Kicks Off with Phantom of the Opera
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A new monthly film cycle, this time dedicated to Musicals, begins tomorrow night with The Phantom of the Opera, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's lugubrious themes will work their magic one more time. -------------------- O ICBIE, através do Prêmio Mais Cultura,...
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Tonight’s Cineforum with a Classic Story, Brazilian Style
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Ópera do Malandro, tonight's wonderful film, is based on a great satirical story with a long history.  It starts with John Gay's The Beggar's Opera in 1728 and proceeds through the centuries to The Threepenny Opera (1928), with its re-adaptation by Bertolt Brecht, and...
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Italy Day in Salvador
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(English and Portuguese translations below) Quest’anno, per la prima volta, il consolato italiano di Salvador è stato, fra quelli nordestini, la sede principale della festa per il 2 giugno. Essendo da poco lo stato di Bahia entrato a far parte...
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TeveRIO Party Reports
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  A bit overdue, here's a set of pictures documenting the extraordinary success of last Saturday night's ICBIE Annual fundraiser in Rome.  We inaugurated the Blow Up River Cafe with a mob of our loyal supporters, who braved the stormy...
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Shine Comes to the Cineforum
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This Friday's Cineforum will be showing Scott Hicks's Oscar winning film Shine (1996), as part of this month's cycle, "Genius and Madness." O ICBIE, através do Prêmio Mais Cultura,  gostaria de convidá-lo para as exibições de filmes do nosso Cineforum....
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