Vittorio De Sica

2017-02-02

[...] persona, Pee-Wee Herman. Inspired, strange as it sounds, by Italian neo-realist innovator Vittorio De Sica (specifically his celebrated film, The Bicycle Thief), Reubens wrote one honey of a [...]

Taste of Cinema – Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists

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2017-02-01

[...] | 1947| 90 min. | 14A | 35mm Thursday, February 16 at 6:30 p.m. Teresa Venerdi dir. Vittorio De Sica | Italy | 1941 | 94 min. | 14A | 35mm. Thursday, February 23 at 6:30 p.m. Fellini’s [...]

What She Said

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2017-01-24

[...] foreign language performances nominated for Oscars. 10. Sophia Loren in Two Women (1960) Vittorio De Sica’s neo-realistic masterpiece Two Women made Sophia Loren into the first Oscar winner for a [...]

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2016-12-09

[...] while Wadjda’s tale is compelling and recalls somewhat the works of neo-realists like Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief), there’s also much to admire in al-Mansour’s detailed and [...]

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2016-12-02

[...] Have Wings, The Rules Of The Game might just be the best of the lot. 3. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) The plot of Bicycle Thieves is deceptively simple. A poor man, living in post-World [...]

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2016-11-12

[...] Vittorio De Sica was the great protector of Italian neorealism. His work was far from the philosophical [...]

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2016-08-21

[...] of personal cinema. 3. Miracle in Milan (1951) Virtually any film fan asked to define who Vittorio de Sica was would probably state that he was an Italian director-writer-actor (though never in his [...]

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2016-04-16

[...] in pursuit of his stolen bike in PWBA, which was inspired in part by, of all things, Vittorio de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves. But no matter—it gets our boy moving forward and into the various [...]

Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule

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2016-01-06

[...] are commonplace in cinema. Never was the case preceding “Umberto D.” (1952) director Vittorio De Sica’s “Bicycle Thieves” (1946). The now heralded classic was a groundbreaking cinematic [...]

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2015-10-21

[...] ’s daughter, played by Godard’s muse Anna Karina. 8. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica, 1970) Based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani, this film by Vittorio De Sica, one of the most [...]

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2015-09-09

[...] body of work with the words- “He changed cinema three times. First, he and Vittorio De Sica started what was called ‘neo- realism.’ Then, with his wife Ingrid Bergman, he [...]

Taste of Cinema – Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists

#89

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