neorealist

Rohinton Mistry writes what could be called neorealist novels, in honor of the simple, moving tales of struggle and affliction that distinguished the Italian films of the early Fifties (and continue to this day in, say, the films coming out of revolutionary Iran).

Passage to Bombay Iyer, Pico 2002

After brief army service, he went right back into film production, making a range of melodramas in the slick Hollywood manner as well as the popular "neorealist" style, a socially conscious tradition that often used nonprofessional actors and was filmed on location to convey immediacy and truth.

Prolific director Dino De Laurentiis dies Adam Bernstein 2010

When Walesa declares the need for compromise he unmasks the intentions of the authorities; when the same is being said by a "neorealist" who avoids mentioning the word "Solidarity" like the plague, he is signaling to the authorities his own readiness to take part in murdering our union.

Letter from the Gdansk Prison Michnik, Adam 1985

The film is quickly proclaimed a masterpiece of neorealist cinema for its convincing, but wholly cinematic, mimicry of documentarian styles.

G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

The film is quickly proclaimed a masterpiece of neorealist cinema for its convincing, but wholly cinematic, mimicry of documentarian styles.

G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

The National Gallery screens "Shoeshine" from 1946, among the first of the Italian neorealist films.

Free and Easy: Take the Mic or Take the Plunge Jess Righthand 2011

The National Gallery screens "Shoeshine," from 1946, among the first of the Italian neorealist films.

Free & easy Post 2011

The same catalog tells us that the Man of Sorrows inspired British novelist Barry Unsworth, folksinger Richard Burnett's "Man of Constant Sorrow" made famous by Bob Dylan, the Italian neorealist filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, not to mention artists such as Manet and Cézanne.

Matthew Milliner: Francesco Vezzoli's 'Sacrilegio' And The Supermodel Of Sorrows Matthew Milliner 2011

The present-tense narration still seems powerful in its immediacy, even though the use of the present tense among current neorealist writers has become something of a commonplace.

Updike, John 2010

The programs span a half-century, from Le Xing's 1963 "Our Neighbors" aka "Head of Street, End of Lane", a sympathetic, neorealist view of life on the lower rungs, to "Cape No. 7," Wei Tei-Sheng's 2008 unabashed, crowd-pleasing romantic musical.

Taiwan to India Steve Dollar 2011