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Naples down under

How they live and die in Naples. It was quite a collaboration. A great Italian film director interviewed his fellow citizens, while a leading German photographer recorded them. The result was a poignant document of humanity and heartbreak that very … Continue reading

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naples yellow: pots of peculiar gold

Italian neo-realismo. Very much a complement to, and reaction towards, the American ideological war as docu-drama that took flight in Germany after WWII and ran the gamut clunker to precursor to cinema verite. Italian realismo was not created in a … Continue reading

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general rovere’s ride

Complicity and redemption… It might not be comparable to Open City, but General Della Rovere by Rossellini, for its meanings and its movements, had to be taken seriously. After the initial drive of italian neo-realimo picures poured forth in the … Continue reading

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paisan: real to reel

Impressive. The Italian neo-realists encapsulated the entire postwar delapidation, nihilism and then re-birth by refusing to dodge the issues by intoxicating themselves with pretty pipe dreams and resonant extravaganzas, avoiding the temptation to money making based on the Hollywood formula … Continue reading

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the realismo deal

Hollywood motion pictures that immediately preceded WWII were basically decorative and a kind of falsifying cosmetic that bore little resemblance to the post war trauma and destruction that had occurred. One had to look elsewhere…. By far the most impressive … Continue reading

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reel to reel with neo-real

By far the most impressive foreign pictures of the immediate post WWII period, that of delapidation and regenesis were those made by Italian neo-realists who, refusing to dodge the issues by intoxicating themselves with pretty pipe dreams and resonant extravaganzas, … Continue reading

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