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 ...
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 ...
The End of a Spiritual Retreat in the Aspen Mountains Triumphs and Tin Ears at Princeton’s New Art Museum The Better-Than List for 2025, the Year of Sedition Hollywood Comes for Mamdani Nouvelle Vague ...
For all the ways Italian neorealism brought a new socially conscious, unforgiving directness to cinema in the 1940s, Gianni Bozzacchi’s documentary “We Weren’t Just Bicycle Thieves. Neorealism” is as ...
What is it? A movement born both of mood and resources, Neorealism emerged at a time when the former was one of disillusionment and the lack of the latter necessitated new levels of guile from its key ...
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 ...
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