The Screening Room's top 10 Italian films

LESSON IDEA: Students, especially younger ones, tend to know relatively little about Italian cinema. When starting a thematic unit featuring film, brainstorming and google searches can be effective methods of creating a base of knowledge. This CNN.com article (and others like it) on the top 10 Italian films of all time according to a Rome-based film critic could be useful supplementary reading material to make students begin to put the history of Italian cinema into context.