Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: My House in Umbria

Yesterday I watched "My House in Umbria", with Maggie Smith. It's an HBO
TV film. I liked it, but I like everything with Maggie Smith in it. It's
weird, a bit inconsistent, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. There's
also Giancarlo Giannini, who perhaps was more concerned in his English
than in his character.
As for what may concern the readers of this ng, you'll hear a lot of RP,
some AmEng, some regional BritEng and some foreign accents.
One thing I can never understand: the film is set in Italy, and yet I
could tell, as ever, it wasn't an Italian film. How so?
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 his character.
[...]
Bye, FB
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 TV film.
I know that "film" means "movie" but "tv film" sounds odd. I guess it's all
in my head, though. :)
Sebastiano

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I may well have made it up. Does it exist?
Bye, FB
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 I may well have made it up. Does it exist?
I don't know, but in Italian you can say "film tv" for those films which 
were produced just for television and not for cinemas, such as the movie 
about Borsellino aired a few months ago on Canale5.
Tschüss,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
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 in my head, though. :)
I guess they say "film for TV", as in "Best supporting actress in a TV
series or film for TV:"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1130241.stm
 
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 guess it's all in my head, though. :)
I've seen recently "Filming Othello" (and of course "Othello"
too) in which Orson Welles never used the word "movie", he
always said "film".
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 I may well have made it up. Does it exist?
Well, "tv movie" is OK and it's equivalent in BrE could be "tv film", but I
have no idea if that's what they say in the UK.
Sebastiano

 always said "film".
I was not questioning the use of the word "film" per se.
The term "tv film" sounds odd and I don't know if that's because I don't
use the term film that much (and "tv movie" is something I hear a lot) or
because it is odd.
In "Filming Othello" do they also say "tv film"? Because that's what we was
talking about. If they do, well, then it's settled, the oddness was in my
head. :)
Sebastiano

 concerned in his English than in his character.
Mi ero incuriosito leggendo questo post e lo sto scaricando. Ho visto 
qualche pezzetto dall'anteprima. Ma secondo te la voce è proprio quella di 
Giannini? non è stato doppiato?!
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 Giannini? non è stato doppiato?!
È la sua.
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 È la sua.
Ammazza, quindi lo parla bene l'inglese...!
Sto scaricando anche i sottotitoli ENG (per sbaglio avevo scaricato anche 
quelli ESP :-) ) Appena finito me lo vedo...
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Beh, si capisce parecchio che è straniero ma, essendo il suo personaggio
un italiano, capisci che...
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I was just adding some extra stuff to the thread, excuse me if I
went off-topic.
Anyway, perhaps from Orson Welles' times "film" is less used and
"movie" is more used.
BTW, something about Welles films I have seen recently:
The Lady From Shanghai - qui l'attore parla uno strano inglese,
il suo personaggio sarebbe un irlandese;
Macbeth - qui Welles e tutti gli altri attori parlano con delle
R molto arrotolate, come gli spagnoli, essendo i personaggi
scozzesi;
Othello - qui ho scoperto che gli inglesi pronunciano (da almeno
4 secoli, a quanto pare) "Desdemóóna" il nome della moglie di
Otello. In Italia, massime in Veneto, sarebbe improponibile,
infatti tutti dicono "Desdèmona".
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than work at anything but his art.
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Raiclick Web has a category called "Film TV".
http://prod-raiclicktv.fastwebnet.it/raiclickpc/secure/list_content.srv?id=1293
Joe from Massachusetts

 "movie" is more used.
Typically, "film" is used by those who consider film an art and "movies" is 
used by those who consider movies entertainment. 

 Raiclick Web has a category called "Film TV".
Yes, in fact neither Rai nor Mediaset produce many tv series, but just a lot 
of "film tv", which nowadays are also called "fiction".
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 used by those who consider movies entertainment.
Yeah, you're probably right. :)
Sebastiano

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And business people? 
Penso che sia anche una questione di epoca storica.
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like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
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 Penso che sia anche una questione di epoca storica.
You do? And in which era was what term used?