Considered one of the fathers of neorealism, Vittorio De Sica was an eclectic filmmaker and actor. He started his career as a director delving into…
Umberto D. is a film by Vittorio De Sica, which is often said to mark the end of the Italian neorealist film movement. Its modernism…
Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief, 1948) is a neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, considered modern and revolutionary because it radically broke with pre-World…
Italian Neorealism is a filmmaking movement associated with a select group of Italian filmmakers in the latter years of, and the years immediately following, World…
Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker, writer, music director, and illustrator, considered among the greatest auteur-directors of 20th-century cinema, along with the likes of Akira…
The relationship between politics and the cinema is probably one of the most vexatious questions to have occupied the academic discipline of film studies, and…