Che Bella Italian Neorealism and the Movies -- and the AFS Series -- It Inspired By Nick Barbaro, Fri., Jan. 19, 2001 ...

Promoted by Neorealism directors such as Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, and Federico Fellini, this movement gained global recognition when Roberto Rossellini's 1945 Neorealism World War II ...

As filmmakers, Federico Fellini and Spike Lee are about as far apart as, well, Rome and Brooklyn, but when the maestro died 20 years ago this week (on October 31, 1993), even Lee acknowledged his ...

Fellini, A Life By Hollis Alpert Atheneum, 337 pages, $21.95 Zeffirelli: The Autobiography of Franco Zeffirelli Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 358 pages, $19.95 The facts are up for grabs in both thes… ...

Once the second world war was over (he had gone to great lengths to avoid the draft), Fellini worked under the tutelage of Roberto Rossellini, one of the founding fathers of Italian neorealism ...

He gave me a clear idea of what directing is and its meaning. Fellini had a duplicitous aspect, caught between character and poetry. Especially in the latter half of his career. And as for neorealism?

Roberto Rossellini s 1945 neorealist classic, Rome, Open City, builds upon actual events and characters from Italy s World War II underground Resistance, which battled German occupiers by using ...

Glorious Neorealism is all gold. Franco Citti stars in Pier Pasolinis Accattone. Franco Citti stars in Pier Pasolini’s Accattone, part of TIFF’s excellent slate of Italian neorealist films.

Criterion is gearing up to release a set of 14 films from legendary director Federico Fellini in November. Classic movie buffs with $200 to burn, take note: The Criterion Collection has announced ...