Neorealism

Guy Maddin couldn't be further removed from the tenets of Italian Neorealism, but he does like his black and white, and he assembled Rossellini's tender tribute with a relative minimum of fussery, his trademark humor and referential film geek touches intact.

Michelle Orange: A Canadian and an Italian Walk into a Film Festival... 2008

Associated with the films of Visconti, De Sica and Rossellini, Neorealism was an artistic response to the transformation of Italy in the 20th century.

Time Off Europe Calendar 2008

These films, particularly 1945's Rome, Open City, are credited with ushering in film's Neorealism movement, which insisted on a context of the real, rejecting the high artifice that characterized most of the films being produced not just in Italy but around the world.

Michelle Orange: A Canadian and an Italian Walk into a Film Festival... 2008

As I got older my interest in cinema expanded into areas like Italian Neorealism and the French, British & Japanese New Wave.

About Cinebeats 2006

As I got older my interest in cinema expanded into areas like Italian Neorealism and the French, British & Japanese New Wave.

Alida Valli 1921-2006 2006

Neorealism notwithstanding, we tell stories to reinforce the social order, usually by showing what catastrophes happens when you push up against its boundaries.

Writing: Characters and Race Rogers 2006

As I got older my interest in cinema expanded into areas like Italian Neorealism and the French, British & Japanese New Wave.

Alida Valli 1921-2006 2006

As I got older my interest in cinema expanded into areas like Italian Neorealism and the French, British & Japanese New Wave.

Intro 2006

The golden age of Neorealism, which was followed by Fellini and Antonioni, is long gone.

SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Mick LaSalle 2011

Rome Open City is the famous film of the group, the clarion call of the Italian Neorealism movement.

Slate Magazine Nathaniel Rich 2010