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Films  in   English


(1.) Feature films in English shown in Rome cinemas:

  • General listings: see the What's On in Rome Film Listings web page

  • Thursdays: Warner Village Moderno, Piazza della Repubblica 45 (near the Stazione Termini), tel. 06/47779202.  
    To see films now playing:
    www.warnervillage.it

  • Mondays: Alcazar Cinema, Via Merry del Val, 14 (in Trastevere, near piazza Sonnino), tel. 06/5880099.   (No web site.)


(2.) English language films on cassettes and DVDs for rental:

  • Hollywood Video Rentals, Via Monserrato 107 (between Largo Argentina and Campo de’ Fiori), tel. 06/6869197
    Catalog: films.zip (home page:
    www.hollywood-video.it
    )

  • Videoteca Navona Corso Rinascimento 13-15 (near piazza Navona), tel. 06/6869823.  
    Catalog: available only at the store.  

    - If you know of other rental stores with a good selection of cassettes/DVDs in English, send the name (for free posting here) to: sito @ boylan.it . For example: www.booksitaly.com/products.htm




(3.) Films in English you can view for free (in the Language Lab):

The following films (just a selection from the vast Language Lab catalog)
enable you to practice listening to a good number of
national, regional, ethnic and class-distinctive varieties of English.

Title of film

Kind of English or Englishes spoken

Film length min.

Lab code no.

(The) Commitments

Irish English (Dubliner working class)

118

59

Crocodile Dundee

Broad Australian  (+ General American)

98

22

Do the right Thing

Ebonics (Black inner city English: New York)

98

22

Ghandi

Indian English (+ RP pubic school English)

180

131

Goodfellas

Italo-American New York English

96

31

Mississippi Burning

Deep Southern U.S. English (+ Gen. Am.)

98

67

Nashville

Southern U.S. English (+General American)

112

182

(The) Piano

New Zealander English (also Scots English)

114

86

Raining Stones

Northern UK English (Lancashire dialect)

110

**

Rebel Music

Jamaican English

86

*

Secrets and Lies

London ("Estuary") English: working class

136

***

 

 

 

 

. *Copy missing at present.   Available for a purchase fee at Video Rental Centers
. **Copy missing at present.   Available for a rental fee at Video Rental Centers.
. ***Only a badly damaged copy.   Available for a rental fee at Video Rental Centers.


Viewing films is good preparation, but...

But there's more to learning English. To see what else you can do once you have acquired a feel for English through portrayals – click here: From films to life