Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

The pathos of bombed-out post-war daily life, its gradual revival, and attempts to restore the identity of people consigned to the dustbin of history: what Polish and Italian neorealism have in common ...

“Film analysis has become an art without a future. … There are no longer, or should no longer be, any analyses of films. There are just gestures.” — Raymond Bellour, 2006. This year being the 70 th ...

A new video essay compares two 1952 films that resulted from the collaboration of two renowned filmmakers, Vittorio De Sica, a master of Italian neorealism, and David O. Selznick, a Hollywood producer ...

Jeremy has more than 2100 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Vittorio De Sica may be known to more Americans as an actor than as a director, but from 1947 through 1972 his directing efforts received more acclaim in the U.S. than any other Italian filmmaker save ...

Post-World War II Italy was a place of abject societal decay. Everywhere, there was unthinkable poverty and brokenness — and the added shame of having been on the wrong side of the war, which meant ...

Gianni Bozzacchi's documentary delivers an introductory primer to the highly influential Italian film movement. By Frank Scheck Too superficial to qualify as scholarship and too esoteric to satisfy ...

Neorealism jumped to the lead with a dramatic move halfway through the Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup (G1) at Sha Tin April 30 and held off the top two local contestants for a narrow win.

Hollywood is known for its blockbusters, a formula that's worked for years, but in the 1950s a sort of anti-Hollywood movement emerged. It was called Italian neorealism. In 1952, David O. Selznick was ...