SONYA FRIEDMAN
English Language Subtitles
Subtitles written and technically supervised by Sonya Friedman
Selected credits
For PBS
The Metropolitan Opera Presents, innovator of opera sub-titles; title writer since the inception of these telecasts of opera productions from a-to-z (Aida to Zauberflote).
Live from Lincoln Center, since inception through the present.
(Note that Friedman has subtitled over 110 operas for live telecasts, theatrical performances, and/or home video release.)
Oedipus Rex, directed by Julie Taymor; music, Stravinsky; text, Cocteau (Cami Video) Soldiers of Music, a portrait of the great cellist Stanislav Rostropovic ( Cami Video)
The Christo films: Pont Neuf; Running Fences, etc. (Maysles Films)
Italian Language Films
The Fellini Gala – titled for the New York Lincoln Center Film Society
(La Dolce Vita; Le Notte di Cabiria; I Vitelloni; La Citta delle Donne; Roma)
**Bread and Chocolate (Franco Brusati)
**The Godfather – all scenes with Sicilian and Italian dialogue (Francis Ford Coppola)
** 8 1/2 (Fellini)
**The Clowns (Fellini)
**Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi)
* Marriage Italian Style (Vittorio De Sica)
**Two Women (De Sica)
**Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri)
Tenth Victim (Elio Petri)
The Easy Life [Il Sorpasso] (Dino Risi)
The Age of the Medici, a theatrical trilogy by Roberto Rossellini
French Language Films
50 Years at MOMA (Jean Luc Godard)
Weekend (Jean Luc Godard) – also wrote and produced English voice-overs for off-scene French narration
Contempt (Godard)
Rider in the Rain (Rene Clement)
Landru (Claude Chabrol)
La Prisionniere (Henri George Cluzot
Other foreign-language films
*Tristana – Spanish (Louis Bunuel)
Love at 20 – French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, German (Truffaut, Bertolucci, and others)
Loves of a Blonde – Czech (Milos Forman)
Ingmar Bergman: A Documentary – Swedish
** Academy Award Winner
* Academy Award Nominee
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