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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"What is neorealism?" asks the filmmaker kogonada in this excellent video essay, created for the May 2013 issue of Sight & Sound magazine. He examines two 1952 films that resulted from the ...

NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960 presents an intricate survey on how photography changed (or didn’t) during Italy’s transition from Fascism to democratic capitalism. Already a member?

The Italian Actress is a rewarding, satirical, left-handed tribute to film studies programs, artistic ruthlessness and Italian neorealism. The play is from Duke professor Jody McAuliffe’s adaptation ...