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The garden of Vittorio De Sica - Features - Boston Phoenix
Vittorio De Sica, the dominate of a important retrospective at the Harvard Veil Archive, "Vittorio De Sica — Neo-Realism, Melodrama, Fable," was a cinema falling star in Italy before he became a filmmaker. And since he'd made his famous for as a big Don Juan in sweet comedies — and since his first four pictures as a leader continued the fashion — he must have seemed the least tenable upon to coincide with with Roberto Rossellini in bringing his hinterlands's dusting industriousness to the heed of the smashing with the enlargement of Italian Neo-Realism. This sign dramatized the ills of up-to-date–Everybody War II and strut-war Italy. De Sica's masterpieces in this dash — Shoeshine (1946), The Bicycle Thieves (1949), and Umberto D. (1952) — combined Stendhal-like popular realism with Chekhovian lyricism, a mix that no one since has managed to beat a retreat off. (Every year brings more Neo-Realist films from France and Italy, but they're noticeably lacking in metrics.) Rossellini made the first...
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Sophia Loren Entertaining Vittorio de Sica, His Wife and Marcello Mastroianni in Formal Dining Room
A Better Life: 'Bicycle Thieves' in the mean streets of east LA
, The means is a fully loaded landscaping truck. Carlos (revered Mexican thespian Demian Bichir) has been living for years in L.A. as an undocumented garden white-collar worker, raising his son alone. Now 15 (older than De Sica’s son character), Luis (Jose Julian) is skipping kind and mingling with neighbourhood gangs – although, for now at least, the main attraction is the lively family dynamic.Their communication problems are not ethical about the generation gap. Luis knows little about his cultural background. He doesn’t want to talk about his maw, who abandoned the family. Realizing his son is slipping away, Carlos borrows money from his sister and buys the dealings and client list from his boss. He can barely contain his excitement; Luis can barely contain his mortification. But deeper feelings surface a little later, when the film hits its main track: a yarn about a father and son emotionally connecting as men for the first time.
After picking up Santiago, an older worker, and arriving at a hillside manor, Carlos scales a tall palm tree and pauses to survey the spectacular view. Echoing the vital turning-point scene in De Sica’s film, Carlos can’t scramble down in time as Santiago drives off.
Top 10 films of the 1940s?
Mine are:
1. Villager Kane (1941) – Orson Welles
2. The Maltese Falcon (1941) – John Huston
3. The Bicycle Purse-snatcher (1948) – Vittorio De Sica
4. The Third Man (1949) – Carol Reed
5. Notorious (1946)
1*maltese falcon
2*cassablanca
3*thin man
4*native kane
5* its a wonderful life
6*bringing up baby
7* the bachlor and the bobbysoxer
8*my gal friday
9*double assurance
10*treasure of the sierra
1. Oppidan Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3.It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
4. The Fugitive (1947)
5. Suspicion (1941)
6. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
7. Twice Indemnity (1944)
8.Leave Her
2. Casablanca (1942)
3.It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
4. The Fugitive (1947)
5. Suspicion (1941)
6. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
7. Twice Indemnity (1944)
8.Leave Her
Top 5 "holocaust" films?
Entertain in mind that I'm only posting this because I have an compulsive need to make film lists and share them, but feel unbosom to answer it anyway. Mine are:
1. The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
2. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Decree at Nuuremberg
The Diary of Anne Frank
Schindler's List
Sunshine
Exodus
Movie IQ test (cinema lovers)?
This uncertainty is inspired by a movie IQ test that I saw recently in this section. Since I know the cinematic IQ on this website is fairly low, I figured I’d take a inspection to hopefully prove me wrong. The problem is, most people think they know
here goes...
"+10 points if at least one of these directors"
I'm assuming "If you've heard of one of these directors" which I have. woo. (10)
"if you’ve seen two movies by one of
Vittorio De Sica - Bookshelf
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Vittorio De Sica, director, actor, screenwriter Structured chronologically, the supply begins by introducing readers to De Sica's early popularity as an actor and singer during the years of Italian Fascism, ... |
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About this book Recognized as a professional of Italian and world cinema, Vittorio De Sica is considered one of the major proponents of neorealism, an Italian movement that forever altered the import and style of the cinema worldwide. This work covers De Sica's entire career as a stage and screen actor, head, and screenwriter. It begins with a chronology of his life and work. A lengthy essay discusses biographical and vocation information in detail. Special attention is given to the years following the war when De Sica directed Shoeshine, Bicycle Thieves, Miracle in Milan, and Umberto D-films that made him celebrated. Succeeding sections offer stage acting credits, screen acting credits, a filmography of De Sica's directorial occupation, selected credits related to De Sica's neorealism films, and a filmography of De Sica's work as a screenwriter. Two interviews with the crackerjack provide additional insights. A bibliography of works by and about De Sica in the English language complete the work. |
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Vittorio De Sica, contemporary perspectives The essays included here - some newly commissioned, some reprinted, and others in rewrite - look at De Sica's varied career from many perspecives. |
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About this book Recognized as a chief of Italian cinema, Vittorio De Sica is perhaps best known and most respected for his critically acclaimed neorealist films of the duration 1946-55. As this anthology reveals, however, his production was remarkably multifaceted. The essays included here - some newly commissioned, some reprinted, and others in explanation - look at De Sica's varied career from many perspecives.Structured chronologically, the volume begins by introducing readers to De Sica's early esteem as an actor and singer during the years of Italian Fascism, and to his initial directorial efforts before the end of World War II. It was not until the postwar era, however, that De Sica made his slash in film history. Special attention is given to this critical phase of his career, which encompasses the neorealist films that made him pre-eminent: "Shoeshine," "Bicycle Thieves," "Miracle in Milan," and "Umberto D."When the neorealist move waned after 1955, De Sica returned to his roots in Neapolitan... |
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Vittorio De Sica, a guide to references and resources |
Vittorio De Sica - News
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Italian Film Festival This year's closes with a freely permitted screening of Vittorio De Sica's 1948 masterpiece Bicycle Thieves for a very simple reason. |
Indian directors thinking outside the Bollywood box
While he found Bollywood movies fascinating, it was a Vittorio De Sica retrospective at Anniversary of International Films in New Delhi in 1993 that inspired
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The Reel Queens: Many Queens-made films to hit theaters as fall arrives Its first slate of screenings allow for work from Alain Resnais, Arthur Penn, DA Pennebaker and Vittorio De Sica. Read film reviews by Nathan Duke at |