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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Combining the influences of Italian neorealism with Dickensian melodrama, Andrei Kravchuk's simultaneously tough-minded and sentimental "The Italian" is as bracing as it is moving. By The Associated ...

The series is called "Che Bella: Italy in the 60s," but the story really begins -- as does all of modern cinema -- in the streets of Rome, in May of 1944. There, even as Allied troops raced toward the ...

Italian neorealism is a well to which the TIFF Cinematheque programmers return frequently. Mamma Roma screened in last summer’s Pier Paolo Pasolini retrospective, and Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle ...

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Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...