The absolute best movie performances of the 1940s include turns from Ingrid Bergman in Notorious and Moira Shearer in The Red ...

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 ...

That the Vesuvius-like eruption of Italian neo-realism altered the landscape of film history is widely agreed upon. It's less easy to come to a consensus on what “Italian neo-realism” actually was.

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 ...

Hollywood is known for its blockbusters, a formula that's worked for years, but in the 1950s a sort of anti-Hollywood movement emerged. It was called Italian neorealism. In 1952, David O. Selznick was ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...