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 ...

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 ...

Through the entire month of May, the British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank will present The Roots of Neorealism, a season of films that helped inspire the Italian Neorealism movement. Neorealism was ...

Jeremy has more than 2100 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

"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 ...

As pointed out by this brilliant video essay for Sight & Sound from Ernie Park —whom we know as the video whiz kogonada —the film represented the clash of two great sensibilities: The movements of ...

Gianni Bozzacchi's documentary delivers an introductory primer to the highly influential Italian film movement. By Frank Scheck Too superficial to qualify as scholarship and too esoteric to satisfy ...