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🎬 The Great Movies by Roger Ebert – https://amzn.to/3wsJMsEItalian Neorealism: Our deep dive into the Italian Neorealist period of cinema, looking at the f...
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Mar 5, 2019 · In this first episode of Silver Screen Academy, Mario takes a look at Italian Neorealism. What caused it? Who were the key players?
Broadcast from October 8, 2020Alfonso G. Aguado (NYU Ph.D. Candidate)in conversation withDavid Brancaleone, Limerick Institute of TechnologyPart of the serie...
Zavattini articulated a range of ideas about programming in two letters sent, respectively, on January. 1959 and February 6, 1961, to writer and television personality Mario Soldati and RAI artistic director Sergio Pugliese. See Archivio Cesare Zavattini, Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emilia, Italy (S622/21 and P691/5).
Sep 22, 2020 · “The cinema,” claims screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, the chief theorist of what came to be known as Italian neorealism in the early 1950s, “has always felt the ‘natural’ and practically inevitable...
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Apr 25, 2024 · Zavattini, the pre-eminent theorist of neorealism, was often called upon to justify his and De Sica’s apparent non-spectacle, the mundanity of their films. Their loose, episodic approach to narrative seemed to be the antithesis of tightly constructed, neatly resolved Hollywood narratives – but real life, they claimed, was not like that.
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The thirteen points Zavattini outlined are widely regarded as his manifesto to Italian neorealism. In his only experience in Hollywood, Zavattini wrote the screenplay for The Children of Sanchez (1978) based on Oscar Lewis's book of the same title, a classic study of a Mexican family.
