21 days ago by Book-hound

Following the Second World War Italian cinema took off with the neo-realist movement, most notably with Roberto Rossellini's Rome, open city, and Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle thieves. What I hadn't realised until reading Carlo Levi's Christ stopped at Eboli was that the neo-realist movement arose from ...

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30 days ago by Roy Stafford

Last year I enjoyed watching some of Audrey Hepburn’s early films collected in a DVD box-set. The only drawback was that Roman Holiday was not included. Now I’ve finally managed to see it I realise that it is an important production in relation to the concept of global film – as well as an extremely ...

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88 days ago by HemRaj Singh

Ah! Delhi Belly is realistic, yes, and how! Realism gone to stinking, sick pigs. That’s Delhi Belly’s variety of it, if it was realism that the director actually wished to serve us with. Funny? Yes, if you can laugh at semi-solid human excreta spread over a velvet cloth like jelly, the regular roads ...

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122 days ago by Landon Palmer

The emergence of Pedro Costa’s films into American cinematic consciousness remains something of a conundrum that discerning audiences continue to wrestle with. On the one hand, for those who desire for a radically unconventional cinema as far from Hollywood (geographically, aesthetically, ideologica ...

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139 days ago by NextToTheAisle

Martin Scorsese narrates and presents a personal voyage through the history of Italian cinema, which had a huge influence on his life from an early age when watching it on his small television in New York when growing up, to the huge impact it has had on his esteemable career. Featuring excerpts fro ...

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148 days ago by skykid

Respiro is an Italian drama set on the island of Lampedusa (near Sicily). Its director, Emanuele Crialese, tried to allow us a sneak peak into the life of a fisherman’s community on the island and its members. At first, everything looks quite mundane -- the men go out to sea and catch fish, the wome ...

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159 days ago by Roy Stafford

I’ve been trying for some time to catch this film which was produced out of Yorkshire with partners in several other countries. I was lucky to find it showing as part of the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival in July and with an accompanying Q&A with director Mohamed Al Daradji and producer Isabelle Stead. ...

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162 days ago by Nick

James Salter recently won the prestigious 2011 Hadda Price from The Paris Review. I think of him more often as a New Yorker author, and find his latest story collection, Last Night (2005), and his memoir-ish first novel about the Korean War, The Hunters (1957), simply incredible. (Salter's A Sport a ...

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174 days ago by leo brady

Isabella Rosselini: On Roberto Rosselini and Neo-Realism – YouTube.

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273 days ago by David N

(Lance Hammer, 2008) A sombre, low-key drama following the effects of one man's suicide upon three members of his family, Hammer's debut builds its emotional power as it progresses to an effecting conclusion. This is down partly to his patient approach with his characters, who are revealed slowly an ...

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