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May 3, 2024 · Rome, Open City – 1945 – (Credits: BFI) One of the first post-war Italian films to gain worldwide attention, Rossellini’s unvarnished drama casts its eye over an eclectic group of characters dealing with the Nazi occupation of the titular city in 1944. In addition to an Academy Award nomination for ‘Best Original Screenplay’ and a ...
Apr 22, 2024 · Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini caused scandal in both his life and work; his filmmaking was unorthodox and experimental; his interests adventurous and multifaceted. ‘Il miracolo’, from his two-story anthology film L’amore (1948), was denounced as blasphemous and banned in the US before the ban was overturned by the US Supreme Court.
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Apr 16, 2024 · Rossellini was one of the earliest pioneers of the art styles, inspired by foreign filmmakers such as Frenchman Jean Renoir and the Japanese creative Yasujirō Ozu to create such early successes as 1941’s The White Strip and 1945’s Rome, Open City.
Apr 29, 2024 · Without a doubt, one of the most critical contributors to Italian neorealism was Roberto Rossellini, who helped sculpt the cinematic movement’s overall aesthetic and narrative motifs. The Rome-born director’s earliest neorealist works, Rome, Open City and Paisan, delved into artistic choices that would play a key role in neorealism’s ...
Apr 25, 2024 · First, much of the writing on neorealism (not only that in English) has tended to work with a restricted filmography of a dozen or so titles, focusing almost exclusively on the canonical trio of Rossellini, De Sica and Visconti.
4 days ago · The film “La Chimera” by Alice Rohrwacher, starring Josh O’Connor and Isabella Rossellini, explores the world of Italy’s “tombaroli” grave robbers, and the black market they fueled.
4 days ago · No, it’s not sacred to me, but the past must be a living thing. Normally if we look at the past we find either the glorification or the destruction of the past. We can only see our personal history as part of the history of humanity. Maybe if we do that, we can do something good. Your work has been compared in the past to that of Roberto ...
