Giovanni gave an extremely interesting and well received, illustrated talk in Italian about the rise of the Italian Cinema industry at the time of World War II, its decline during the 1970s and the present day renaissance.  Accompanied by illustrations he gave brief biographies of such famous directors as De Laurentiis, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Francesca Archibugi and Federico Fellini and covered a whole spectrum of films from Neorealism (Mamma Roma) to Comedy (Divorce Italian Style), Thrillers and of course, Sergio Leone’s famous ‘Spaghetti Westerns’ (A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, etc.)