Sentences with word «neorealism»

Recalling the best of Italian neorealism, the film follows a woman who's got a weekend to convince her co-workers to forego their bonuses to save her job.

Undoubtedly a very fraught and brave production, and playing not unlike a cross between John Hillcoat's recent Cormac McCarthy adaptation, The Road, and something out of the Rossellini canon circa Germany Year Zero (1948), Son of Babylon is a frightening reminder that what would generically constitute a post-apocalyptic road movie in the West is the stuff of a brand of neorealism in the Middle East.

Il Brigante di Tacca del Lupo represented another move away from neorealism into sheer commercialism by Italian filmmker Pietro Germi.

A debut feature from writer - director Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station reminded me of the humanist tradition of Italian postwar neorealism.

It seems to begin as if from scratch with Neorealism, high fashion, art fairs, and wistful images of America.

Kicking off this week's dose of daily video content is a time capsule: a 1972 documentary from Luca Verdone entitled Neorealism, which explores the the Italian film movement that came to personify Italy's cinematic identity in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Throughout the Cold War, when the discipline of IR gained prominence, Realism and Neorealism explored State Theory through the prism of self - interest and power politics.

That may be a crushingly pretentious thing to say about a filmmaker who shuffles moods, genres and visual palettes with enviable ease, and who can leap from the sun - streaked LAPD noir of «Rampart» (2011) to the gloomy Manhattan neorealism of «Time Out of Mind» (2014) without breaking a sweat.

Like last year's American Honey, Baker's film is a timely paradox — call it magical neorealism — depicting hardscrabble poverty without the attendant sermonizing.

Leave it to the writer - director of 45 Years to turn «a boy and his horse» into a recipe for crushingly sad neorealism.

LORNA»S SILENCE By Thom Andersen Neorealism meets noir in the Dardenne Brothers» latest look at life at the bottom

Neorealism masking a thrilling murder mystery.

Balancing the director's trademark neorealism — exemplified here in a remarkable depiction of the fishermen's lives and work — with deeply felt melodrama, Stromboli is a revelation.

For Marx... couldn't be further from the deluded - to - death Zavattini-esque neorealism of Danis Tanović's An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, which makes even the depths of misery readily consumable.

As a film critic and an active leftist, he wrote manifestos promoting neorealism and wrote a respected history of Italian cinema in 1952.

The arrival of the film noir coincided with a new penchant, inspired by Italian neorealism, for moving out of the studio on occasion and onto the great rich set of the American city and its suburbs, a readily available set which became, sometimes with only minimal adjustment of light and shadow, fully as «Germanic» as anything constructed at Ufa in the Twenties.

It seems the Nouvelle Vague will not go away, and we may wonder if there has been any other film movement in history - from Neorealism to Dogme, from...

Postwar neorealism is often and rightfully framed as the cinematic phenomenon that shaped the course of Italian film for the rest of the 20th...

Kicking off this week's dose of daily video content is a time capsule: a 1972 documentary from Luca Verdone entitled Neorealism, which explores the the Italian film movement that came to personify Italy's cinematic identity...

Govinda Van Maele's full - length feature «Gutland» is a striking debut, one that slowly burns through the magnificent landscapes of rural Luxembourg with flourishes of neorealism.

It's determinedly 2 - D, and (as Satrapi once explained in an interview) much more interested in the influences of German expressionism and Italian neorealism than in the possibilities of digital modernity.

Unoriginal but entertaining minor Euro crime drama that mixes American film noir and Italian neorealism.

The style is dated, and its neorealism seems forced and ineffective, but it's still delectable, and mostly for the things Pontecorvo hated about it: its delirious»50s color, and its stars, particularly Montand at the peak of virility.

M. Marcus, «Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli: A tale of two Italies» in Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1986

With Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron in lead roles, «At Any Price» is a vastly different type of project than the astute, naturalistic character dramas that the neorealism - inspired Bahrani delivered with his first two features.

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All the performances teeter on the fence between melodrama and neorealism.

Bahrani rose to prominence with a remarkable series of films that brought to mind the glory days of neorealism: Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, and Goodbye Solo.

Fellini stood here at the dividing point between the neorealism of his earlier films (like «La Strada») and the carnival visuals of his extravagant later ones («Juliet of the Spirits,» «Amarcord»).

Charged with the neorealism style of filmmaking, portraying a cultural shift in Rome post war, this film doesn't coddle it's audience but instead show...

It's also a tough, unsentimental work, applying the stark simplicity of Italian neorealism to an unvarnished American backdrop.

By the time Roberto Rossellini joined forces with the international superstar Ingrid Bergman in the late 1940s, he had already left an indelible mark on the history of film with his groundbreaking works of neorealism, including Rome Open City, Paisan...

Much impressed by Italian neorealism and recent Hollywood fare such as Jules Dassin's The Naked City (1948) that used location shooting, Kyriakis was determined to make an authentic film about the immigrant culture in which he had been reared.

Befitting a filmmaker who defined as well as challenged the definition of Italian neorealism, it unfolds simultaneously as thorny narrative and profoundly personal documentary.

Shot on location more than a quarter of a century later, Jules Dassin's masterpiece The Naked City (1948), a noir procedural inspired by Italian neorealism, offers a grittier view of Lower Manhattan from street level.

This kind of social realist, vérité - style filmmaking has been part of cinema almost from its beginning, reaching peaks in Italian neorealism (1948's Bicycle Thieves) and the French New Wave (1959's The 400 Blows).

Carlo Lizzani was not simply shaped by Italian neorealism.

Scripted by Ennio Flainano and made during the seminal years of Italian neorealism, 1946's Roma Città Libera was directed by Pagliero, famous for having played the stoic resistance leader tortured to death by the Nazis in Roberto Rossellini's incendiary Rome, Open City.

He has researched and completed academic papers on a numbers of films, filmmakers and historical film movements, including French New Wave, Italian Neorealism, Hollywood Cinema, New Korean Cinema, New Iranian Cinema, Documentary Cinema, Silent Cinema, New German Cinema and Post-Revolutionary Cuban Cinema.

In 2015, Jonas Carpignano made a splash with his debut feature «Mediterranea,» a drama that hearkens back to the heyday of neorealism.

It was seen as a betrayal of neorealism, which, ironically, had been ushered in by his seminal Ossessione.

Robert Koehler takes a long «second look» at Death of a Cyclist in the summer 2009 issue of Cineaste, sizing up Juan Antonio Bardem's 1955 political melodrama in terms of Spain's national identity and the legacy of neorealism.

In the early part of his career, which was influenced by the neorealism and, at the same time, censured by the government, he was, arguably at his most creative, innovative, and courageous in the way he presented and treated his subjects and depicted his characters.

The first real departure from type for Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul, Sundance hit Hellion is a type of film with roots dating back to Italian neorealism but is ultimately insubstantial and unsatisfying.

ANNA MAGNANI By Donald Chase Hers was the face of Italian neorealism, and her excellence made her the prisoner of «truth» even to her admirers.

Credited with introducing American abstract expressionism to England and coining the term «pop art,» Alloway had eclectic interests including architecture, earthworks, feminism, film, neorealism, science fiction, and public sculpture.

The artists work with impressions from contemporary culture such as cartoon series and graffiti, yet when doing so, also engage with art historical traditions such as Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Neorealism, Pop Art or 1960s Performance Art.