This neorealist masterpiece by Vittorio De Sica follows an elderly pensioner as he strives to make ends meet during Italy’s postwar economic recovery. Alone except for his dog, Flike, Umberto struggles to …

And when Umberto D. was released in the U.S., it won the 1955 New York Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Film as well as an Oscar nomination for screenwriter Cesare Zavattini’s story. Zavattini was …

Umberto D. is perhaps the most astringent film ever made about a poor old man and his dog. Critics today tend to like the astringent parts: the long, deliberately undramatic sequences full of mundane …

Apr 19, 2022 · V ittorio De Sica’s Miracle in Milan (1951) is an unusual hybrid of a film. Tucked chronologically between two of De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini’s neorealist classics, …

With this vital movement, Italian filmmakers delivered an urgent response to political and economic turmoil in the wake of World War II.

Aug 3, 2022 · King Vidor, Patricia Neal, and Gary Cooper during the making of The Fountainhead (1949) “I believe in the motion picture that carries a message to humanity,” wrote King Vidor in 1920. He’d …

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Begun here, with The Children Are Watching Us, in 1944, at the height of the war, it was a collaboration that would produce the incomparable Bicycle Thieves in 1948, as well as such cinema classics as …

Umberto D. Seeing Clearly Through Tears: On the Smart Sentiment of Umberto D. Umberto D. is perhaps the most astringent film ever made about a poor old man and his dog. Critics today tend to …

The actor and writer shares her love of the literary qualities of Eric Rohmer’s cinema, recalls the thrill of watching Bruno Dumont’s La vie de Jésus, and selects films by auteurs she has worked with, …