CINEMA SOTTO LE STELLE • The Great Caruso

Join us for Casa Belvedere’s Musica Sotte Le Stelle – an evening of fine outdoor dining and a live performance:

Vanessa Racci, The Jazzy Italian Tuesday, Aug 9 • 6:30 to 9:30 pm; doors open at 6 pm 

Come and savor fine dining ‘al fresco’ style while Vanessa Racci serenades you with her unique brand of Italian Jazz. She will perform music from her first album Italiana Fresca, which reinvents Italian classics with modern jazz arrangements.

Vanessa will also give a sneak peek into songs from her soon-to-be-released album Jazzy Italian (on Zoho Records), which celebrates Italian American composers in jazz, and will perform a few other jazzified tunes from Italian American singers and composers.  

Added bonus: mesmerizing views of New York City’s Harbor and the Verrazzano Bridge as a backdrop. Reserve now, because this event will sell out quickly! If it rains, the dinner and show will be presented indoors.

$125 members, $135 non-members (tax and gratuities included)

Four-course dinner includes wine and soft drinks.

Special Holocaust Series: “If You Are Not Indifferent, Things Can Be Different” 

La Vita e’ Bella – Life is Beautiful (1999) by Roberto Benigni 

Tuesday, Aug. 16 at 8 pm 

A gentle Jewish-Italian waiter, Guido Orefice, meets Dora, a pretty schoolteacher, and wins her over with his charm and humor. Eventually they marry and have a son, Giosué. Their happiness is abruptly halted, however, when Guido and Giosué are separated from Dora and taken to a concentration camp. Determined to shelter his son from the horrors of his surroundings, Guido convinces Giosué that their time in the camp is merely a game.

Laugh in Rome! 

Come un Gatto in Tangenziale - Like a Cat on the Highway (2018) by Riccardo Milani 

Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 8 pm 

Giovanni and Monica are the most diverse people on earth. He is an intellectual who prophesies social integration and lives in downtown Rome, while she is a former supermarket cashier dealing every day with the problematic multicultural environment of her suburban neighborhood. They would never have met if their 12-year-old kids did not get together. The two adults have a common goal: the relationship between their children, which has the life expectations of a cat on a highway, must come to an end … until something between them starts to change.

SPECIAL! 

L’Arminuta (2021) by Giuseppe Bonito 

Tuesday, Aug. 30 at 8 pm 

On a midsummer day, a 13-year-old girl is returned to her real family she didn't know she belonged to. She lived for much of her life with a loving mother and father, then suddenly she loses everything about her. She is no longer a young girl of high hopes; she is simply the Arminuta that is the returned. From a middle-class family, she finds herself living in a difficult reality in the Abruzzo countryside, in an empty, dull, and too-small house for a family of five.