Vittorio De Sica may be known to more Americans as an actor than as a director, but from 1947 through 1972 his directing efforts received more acclaim in the U.S. than any other Italian filmmaker save ...

RADNOR — A film series — Cinema with a Social Conscience: Italian Neorealism — is coming to Villanova University. The series is scheduled to take place in the fall and into the spring. According to ...

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 ...

After WWII, a new age of cinema arrived, this age of film began the rise of foreign films. The Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave drove this era. Compared to the Golden Age, foreign films were ...

Ferzan Ozpetek’s Facing Windows ( La Finestra di Fronte ), from a screenplay by Gianni Romoli and Mr. Ozpetek, won a fistful of richly deserved awards in Italy and elsewhere in Europe and was one of ...

That the Vesuvius-like eruption of Italian neo-realism altered the landscape of film history is widely agreed upon. It's less easy to come to a consensus on what “Italian neo-realism” actually was.

There are personalities that have completely changed the way cinema is conceived in Italy. In the case of Vittorio De Sica, he 'invented' cinema in Italy, becoming the father of neorealism, the genre ...

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 ...