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 ...

Through the entire month of May, the British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank will present The Roots of Neorealism, a season of films that helped inspire the Italian Neorealism movement. Neorealism was ...

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 ...