Drama Queens: When Melodrama Meets Film

Immerse yourself in a world of passion, intrigue and stunning visuals at this silent-film festival of rare and restored Italian titles, with a week of screenings accompanied by live music or recorded scores, such as Mascagni and Pizzetti. From March 8 through 15, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and NYU Department of Italian Studies presents “Drama Queens: When Melodrama Meets Film,” with films including the 1914 domestic melodrama Sangue Bleu and the 1982 documentary L'ultima Diva: Francesca Bertini. Many of the films were hand-tinted frame by frame, which will have you rethinking the notion that all of those early-cinema silent movies were black and white.