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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.

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...

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