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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andreas Feininger, Bicycle Thief De Sica, Hans Bellmer, Herbert List, Herbert List photography, Lyonel Feinninger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Ernst, Napoli Vittorio De Sica, Robert Capa, Stephen Spender, Studs Terkel, vittorio de sica
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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
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
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
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article
Tagged David Lean, Frederico Fellini, Harriet White, Helen Levitt, klaus mann, luigi zampa, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Carne, Mario Bava, renato castellani, Riccardo Freda, roberto rossellini, sy wexler, Thomas Mann, vittorio de sica
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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
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