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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Italian neorealism has an impressive proponent in Claudio Giovannesi, whose sophomore feature, "Ali Blue Eyes," reinvigorates the form with exacting honesty. Italian neorealism has an impressive ...

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 ...

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 ...

This kind of self-professed homage to Italian neorealism, where the quest for "authenticity" guides every artistic decision and becomes an end in itself, certainly isn't new, but what's different this ...

Federico Patellani, “Miners at Carbonia” (1950), Sardinia (© Studio Patellani) (all photos courtesy Grey Art Gallery unless attributed to the author) Italian neorealism is rooted in the bloodied soil ...

THIS WEEKEND marks the launching of a Washington tribute to what I'm terming sunny clime neorealism. (Go on, admit it. You were just remarking to your cine-pals that you haven't seen a really good ...