march 16–31, 2025

Books

  • Pier Paolo Pasolini, Saint Paul: A Screenplay, translated by Elizabeth A. Castelli
  • Magdalen Nabb, The Monster of Florence
  • Philippe Costamagna, The Eye, trans. Frank Wynne
  • Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection, trans. Sophie Hughes

Films

  • La ricotta, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Il caso Mattei (The Mattei Affair), dir. Francesco Rosi
  • 12月のかくれんぼ (December Hide-and-Go-Seek), dir. Takashi Ito
  • Zone, dir. Takashi Ito
  • ギ・装置M (Apparatus M), dir. Takashi Ito
  • Che cosa sono le nuvole, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Le mura di Sana’a (The Walls of Sana’a), dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • It’s Such a Beautiful Day, dir. Don Hertzfeld
  • La Terra vista dalla Luna, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • The Challenge, dir. Yuri Ancarani
  • Da Vinci, dir. Yuri Ancarani
  • San Siro, dir. Yuri Ancarani
  • Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp), dir. Peter Strickland
  • The Capsule, dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari
  • แม่โขงโฮเต็ล (Mekong Hotel),dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Il mio corpo per un poker (The Belle Star Story), dir. Lina Wertmüller & Piero Cristofani
  • Gerhard Richter Painting, dir. Corinna Belz

Exhibits

  • Uffizi, Firenze
  • Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze
  • “Messaggere,” Museo Novecento, Firenze
  • “Marion Baruch: Un passo avanti tanti dietro,” Museo Novecento, Firenze
  • “Thomas J. Price in Florence,” Museo Novecento, Firenze
  • Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Firenze
  • Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze

march 1–15, 2025

Books

  • K. C. Constantine, The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself
  • Enrico Crispolti & Gianfranco Baruchello, I pittori non sono farfalle / Painters Ain’t Butterflies, edited by Raffaele Bedarida
  • K. C. Constantine, The Blank Page
  • K. C. Constantine, A Fix Like This
  • Brian Evenson, Good Night, Sleep Tight
  • K. C. Constantine, The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes
  • Brian Evenson, Dark Property
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini, Theorem, translated by Stuart Hood
  • Magdalen Nabb, The Marshall at the Villa Torrini

Films

  • The Producers, directed by Mel Brooks
  • Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey, dir. Terrence Mallick
  • Offret (The Sacrifice), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Il capo, dir. Yuri Ancarani
  • Piattaforma luna, dir. Yuri Ancarani

february 15–28, 2025

Books

  • Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
  • Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
  • Anthony Powell, At Lady Molly’s
  • Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary, translated by Richard Howard
  • Carrie Rickey, A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
  • K. C. Constantine, The Rocksburg Railroad Murders

Films

  • Lettre de Sibérie (Letter from Siberia), directed by Chris Marker
  • Cronaca de un amore (Story of a Love Affair), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Häxan, dir. Benjamin Christensen
  • Habemus Papam, dir. Nanni Moretti
  • Oncle Yanco (Uncle Yanco), dir. Agnès Varda
  • Elsa la rose, dir. Agnès Varda
  • Geschichtsunterricht (History Lessons), dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
  • In omaggio allarte italiana!, dir. Jean-Marie Straub
  • Amore e rabbia, dir. Carlo Lizzani, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, Marco Bellocchio & Elda Tattoli 
  • Die bleierne Zeit (The German Sisters), dir. Margarethe von Trotta

Exhibits

  • “Gianfranco Baruchello: Mondi possibili,” Villa Farnesina, Roma
  • “Caravaggio: il ritratto svelato,” Palazzo Barberini, Roma
  • “Darren Almond: Rags,” Museo Cappella Sansevero, Napoli
  • Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Napoli

february 1–14, 2025

Books

  • Kate Briggs, The Long Form
  • Julie Phillips, The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
  • Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World

Films

  • L’amore in città (Love in the City), directed by Carlo Lizzani, Michelangelo Antonioni, Dino Risi, Federico Fellini, Francesco Maselli, Cesare Zavattini, Alberto Lattuada
  • Bells from the Deep, dir. Werner Herzog
  • Il bidone, dir. Federico Fellini
  • L’Empire, dir. Bruno Dumont
  • Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices, dir. Werner Herzog
  • Jag Mandir, dir. Werner Herzog
  • Pino, dir. Walter Fasano
  • . . . à Valparaíso, dir. Joris Ivens

Exhibits

  • Pinacoteca nazionale di Siena, Siena
  • Santa Maria della Scala, Siena
  • Uffizi, Firenze

january 16–31, 2025

Books

  • Sergio de la Pava, Every Arc Bends Its Radian
  • Anthony Powell, A Buyer’s Market
  • Luigi Barzini, The Italians
  • Ryan Murdock, A Sunny Place for Shady People: How Malta Became One of the Most Curious and Corrupt Places in the World

Films

  • India Matri Bhumi, directed by Roberto Rossellini
  • Box, dir. Takashi Ito
  • Venus, dir. Takashi Ito
  • The Moon, dir. Takashi Ito
  • Domenica sera, dir. Franco Piavoli
  • Paesaggi e figure, dir. Franco Piavoli
  • 犬王 (Inu-Oh), dir. Masaaki Yuasa
  • Out 1: Noli me tangere, dir. Jacques Rivette 
  • 지리멸렬 (Incoherence), dir. Bong Joon-Ho
  • L’orto di Flora, dir. Franco Piavoli
  • Frammenti, dir. Franco Piavoli
  • Fear, dir. Roberto Rossellini

Exhibits

  • Museo nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa
  • Camposanto, Pisa
  • Uffizi, Firenze
  • Gli appartamenti reali, Palazzo Piti, Firenze

january 1–15, 2025

Books

  • Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli, translated by Frances Frenaye
  • Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland
  • Rex Stout, Not Quite Dead Enough
  • Anthony Powell, A Question of Upbringing

Films

  • Duelle, directed by Jacques Rivette
  • Il pianeta azzurro (The Blue Planet), dir. Franco Piavoli
  • Spacy, dir. Takashi Ito
  • Thunder, dir. Takashi Ito
  • Ghost, dir. Takashi Ito
  • Grim, dir. Takashi Ito
  • 写真記 1986 (Photo Diary 1986), dir. Takashi Ito
  • 写真記 1987 (Photo Diary 1987), dir. Takashi Ito
  • Nostos: il ritorno (Nostos: The Return), dir. Franco Piavoli
  • Ashes, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Le Daim (Deerskin), dir. Quentin Dupieux
  • Pagliacci (Clowns), dir. Marco Bellocchio
  • Per una rosa (All for a Rose), dir. Marco Bellocchio
  • La lotta (The Fight), dir. Marco Bellocchio
  • Al primo soffio di vento (At the First Breath of Wind), dir. Franco Piavoli
  • Broadway by Light, dir. William Klein
  • Ностальгия (Nostalghia), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Tiempo di viaggio (Voyage in Time), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky & Tonino Guerra
  • La villa dei mostri, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • アートマン (Ātman), dir. Toshio Matsumoto
  • Drill, dir. Takashi Ito
  • Screw, dir. Takashi Ito
  • Wall, dir. Takashi Ito
  • Devil’s Circuit, dir. Takashi Ito
  • The Mummy’s Dream, dir. Takashi Ito

december 16–31, 2024

Books

  • Pedro Almodóvar, The Last Dream, translated by Frank Wynne
  • Marco Malvadi, Game for Five, trans. Howard Curtis
  • Marco Malvadi, Three-Card Monte, trans. Howard Curtis
  • Christopher Brown, A Natural History of Empty Lots
  • Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
  • Alberto Moravia, The Conformist, trans. Tami Calliope
  • Rex Stout, Where There’s a Will
  • Saul Steinberg, All in Line
  • Rex Stout, Black Orchids
  • Zito Madu, The Minotaur at Calle Lanza

Films

  • The Human Voice, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
  • Strange Way of Life, dir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • Side Effects, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • 生きる (Ikiru), dir. Akira Kurosawa
  • Milford Graves Full Mantis, dir. Jake Meginsky
  • That Uncertain Feeling, dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcomes Medical Collection, dir. Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay
  • In Absentia, dir. Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay
  • The Comb, dir. Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay
  • Anamorphosis, dir. Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay
  • Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods, dir. Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay
  • Stille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You, dir. Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay
  • Il conformista (The Conformist), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • La Salamandre, dir. Alain Tanner
  • Le mane sulla città (Hands Over the City), dir. Francesco Rosi
  • Voci nel tempo (Voices Through Time), dir. Franco Piavoli
  • Allégorie citadine (An Urban Allegory), dir. Alice Rohrwacher & JR
  • Omelia contadina, dir. Alice Rohrwacher & JR
  • Les escargots, dir. René Laloux
  • Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection, dir. David Cronenberg

Exhibits

  • Museo delle Icone Russe, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
  • “Julie Green: The Last Supper,” Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
  • “Hector Dionicio Mendoza: Geographies of Identity,” Boise Art Museum
  • “El sueño americano/The American Dream: Photographs by Tom Kiefer,” Boise Art Museum

december 1–15, 2024

Books

  • Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model
  • Danzy Senna, Colored Television
  • J. M. R. Higgs, KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money
  • Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

Films

  • Identificazione di una donna (Identification of a Woman), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Strategia del ragno (The Spider’s Stratagem), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • The People’s Joker, dir. Vera Drew
  • The Hudsucker Proxy, dir. Joel Coen
  • Mikey and Nicky, dir. Elaine May
  • The Maltese Falcon, dir. John Huston
  • Fargo, dir. Joel Coen

november 16–30, 2024

Books

  • Danielle Dutton, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
  • Italo Calvino, Marcovaldo, or, The Seasons in the City, translated by William Weaver
  • Marco Malvaldi, The Art of Killing Well, trans. Howard Curtis
  • Lucy Ellmann, Things Are Against Us
  • Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop
  • Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

Films

  • Gun Crazy, directed by Joseph H. Lewis
  • Europa ’51, dir. Roberto Rossellini

november 1–15, 2024

Books

  • Magdalen Nabb, The Marshall Makes His Report
  • Anna Maria Ortese, Neapolitan Chronicles, translated by 
  • Renee Gladman, To After That (TOAF)
  • Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel
  • Henry James, The American
  • Kim Stanley Robinson, The Wild Shore
  • Kim Stanley Robinson, The Gold Coast
  • Kim Stanley Robinson, Pacific Edge

Films

  • J’ai faim, j’ai froid, directed by Chantal Akerman
  • L’oro di Napoli, dir. Vittorio de Sica
  • É stata la mano del Dio (The Hand of God), dir. Paolo Sorrentino
  • One Hour With You, dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • Rumours, dir. Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson
  • Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, dir. Ernst Lubitsch

Exhibits

  • Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli
  • Parco Archeologico di Ercolano
  • “Retroscena. Storie di resistenza e dissidenza nella Collezione Della Ragione,” Museo Novecento, Firenze
  • “Oleksandra Horobets: Ho paura di disegnare mia madre,” Museo Novecento, Firenze
  • “Dagli anni ’60 agli inizi del XXI secolo,” Collezione Roberto Casamonti, Firenze