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 ...

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 ...

Daniela is a freelance writer with two years of experience covering entertainment. She is a senior writer on Collider’s freelance team and has also been published in other platforms, such as Elite ...

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 ...

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 ...