Sentences with word «neorealist»

One must think of these works in relation to one another under a common criteria, much in the same way that we can examine a catalog of Italian neorealist films or a compilation of magical realist novels.

Her noirish mass media representations have always charmed by tapping into Italian neorealist film styles, crime dramas and a host of other 20th century representations from theatre and film.

Legend has it that an American moneyman agreed to finance Vittorio De Sica's 1948 neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves with one stipulation — that the role of the common laborer whose meager capital is stolen be played by Cary Grant.

Working within a formula established by the 1953 masterpiece «Little Fugitive,» in which a young child roams Coney Island on his own, Baker uses his measured neorealist style to turns the grimy setting into a sun - soaked wonderland in which the children relate to their surroundings as an ongoing game.

His love of cinema and his passion for politics and history came together in his 1996 feature Celluloid, which dramatizes the making of the pioneering neorealist masterpiece Rome Open City.

This, combined with the film's extensive use of local non-professional actors, made Toni one of the biggest precursors of the Italian neorealist movement (no less than Luchino Visconti served as the assistant director!).

Good news, La Strada is returning to ICA in a new digital restoration: «Transcending the dogmatic underpinnings of the early neorealist movement, La Strada was key to exploring a new poetic sensibility in Italian cinema, as echoed in Nino Rota's score; and marked Fellini's definitive move towards a symbolic cinematic language that combined autobiography with universal concerns.»

And, of course, the pulpy, melodramatic plot of The Postman Always Rings Twice is the structuring device of Ossessione, in contrast with the episodic, picaresque plotting of the films we think of as neorealist.

However, if one looks closely at Ossessione and La terra trema, they are very different kinds of realism from those depicted by fellow neorealist filmmakers Rossellini and De Sica.

Disciples of Italian filmmaker Pietro Germi have noted the stylistic influence of Hollywood's John Ford in Germi's neorealist Il Camino Della Speranza.

Recalling Italian neorealist movies such as The Bicycle Thief, Man Push Cart is a slice of a very sad life.

The result is the work of a funereal yet darkly funny neorealist, sounding the rallying cry against the inflexible maxim casually delivered by one of his own film's characters.

Haneke films his actors in meticulously framed master shots, creating a kind of hushed neorealist medical - horror suspense.

Profiling several of the genre's finest, Shining Violence: Italian Giallo offers six features spanning Dario Argento's seminal Tenebrae and Deep Red, as well as Lucio Fulci's neorealist Don't Torture A Duckling and the Australian - shot The Pyjama Case Girl, with A Quiet Place in the Country and The House of Laughing Windows rounding out the selection.

Often described as «the godmother of the French New Wave,» though she is more properly thought of as a member of the Left Bank movement, she made her feature directing debut with «La Pointe Courte» (1955), a portrait of a crumbling marriage set in a Mediterranean fishing village, steeped in documentary and neorealist techniques.

Or they've been neorealist dramas in the model of Palme D'Or - winning Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who led the dissent against the «Bakur» ban.

In Pier Paolo Pasolini's neorealist take on society's marginalized and dispossessed, Anna Magnani delivers a powerhouse performance as a middle - aged prostitute who attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son.

Academy Award ® Best Foreign Language Film THE SALESMAN (2016)[FORUSHANDE] Fri, May 12, 5:00 p.m.; Sat, May 13, 3:00 p.m.; Sun, May 14, 2:30 p.m. Asghar Farhadi (A SEPARATION) directs this «finely cut gem of neorealist suspense» — Owen Gleiberman, Variety.

Federal interlopers intrude on their fragile domestic setup in a heartbreaking neorealist peek into a corner of a modern America.

I Smile Back's upper - middle - class environs might still be more opulent than the surroundings of most individuals experiencing bipolar disorder, but they're all but neorealist compared to John Cusack as renowned musician Brian Wilson in Love and Mercy, wasting away in his seaside mansion.

I noticed a very familiar pattern from a lot of ostensibly neorealist pictures shot in Italy around the same time (early 1952): a medium shot of two characters, followed by a high - angle medium closeup of one of the characters.

Even the alleged realism in De Sica's neorealist melodramas is meticulously, cruelly designed to do what perhaps only Umberto D did successfully, that is present the dread, the terrible toil, of rising from the apocalypse to discover that the world holds only tragedy and alienation for the freshly - exhumed.

In one scene, Wilson and Pepper walk past a movie house showing Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D, a classic neorealist study of loneliness.

As a filmmaker, Baker is a graceful neorealist voyeur who thrives on improvisation, and his storytelling, in The Florida Project, is mostly just a series of anecdotes.

Drawing on his training in the fine arts, as well as his background working as cinematographer for renowned neorealist filmmakers like Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, Bava developed his own inimitable style.

It harks directly back to the unglamorous neorealist purism of Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D, where looking at how simple social processes play out reveal multitudes about the bittersweet harshness of existence.

The theme of the 12th edition of Fotografia Europea is memory, archive, and the future; this image of generational discord on the façade of its headquarters is a wry counterpoint to the story of untroubled heredity presented inside, where an exhibition shows the influence of Paul Strand and Cesare Zavattini's neorealist photobook Un Paese.

Guidi is a photographer whose gritty Neorealist - influenced documentary work is little known and underappreciated in the United States.

If you've never seen a John Woo film, any of the «Alien» movies, «Blade Runner» or either of the Terminators, or if you believe the Borg was a medieval castle and «City of Lost Children» was one of the more obscure Italian neorealist films, then you can do all your pop - culture homework in one fell swoop.

6:05 am — IFC — Umberto D Vittorio De Sica's neorealist classic about an aging man struggling to live on his meager pension in post-war Rome.

I always found those films so emotionally involving,» he said, singling out «La Strada» and other early neorealist, less fanciful Fellini films of this era.

Even his artistic inspirations, which are as varied as surrealist painting and Neorealist cinema, find equilibrium in his work.

Moschino Cheap & Chic: Inspired, often literally, by Italian neorealists, the Rossella Jardini - designed collection took off where the Fall collection, inspired by four fashion capitals, ended.

Her neorealist style allows for such astonishing, authentic sequences as when Brady tames a wild horse, or bonds with his sister, or visits his friend Lane at a rehab facility where they communicate in sign language.

Weinstein employs a neorealist approach to capturing Menashe's existence that recalls Italian cinematic pioneers such as Vittorio De Sica.

She skips the armchair psychology and the simplistic character motivations, favoring an authentically lived - in style that recalls the Italian neorealists and the contemporary films of the Dardenne brothers.

«BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS represents the closure and pinnacle of a neorealist strand within the L.A. Rebellion.

The soundtrack is lively, mixing location recording with studio overdubs for a sound that fits well with the neorealist - inflected spirit of the nouvelle vague.

The neorealist master and the Hollywood icon forged a brilliant artistic path together, despite the backlash their controversial romance generated.

Inspired by Ermanno Olmi's neorealist classic The Tree of Wooden Clogs, acclaimed chef Marco Canora (Hearth, Terroir) reminisces about his own culinary upbringing and preps a delicious cucina povera salad.

But what I love most about «Fruitvale Station» is its Neorealist flavor.

A random spin of the world cinema wheel will turn up great directors whose finest work touches on this phenomenon: Ken Loach, Ousmane Sembene, the Dardenne brothers, Ulrich Seidl, the Italian neorealists, the blacklisted Americans, and so on.

It is more of an epic than a neorealist document.

Like the frustrated screenwriter played by Vincent D'Onofrio in The Player, you may want to make a stab at regaining your faith in the movies by taking another look at this neorealist masterpiece.

His customers can be obnoxious or oblivious, the weather can be bad, and the blindsiding car doors can be worse, but Jose soldiers on, with the slim margin of error and profit that has powered many a neorealist and neo-neorealist tick - tock drama ever on the edge of crisis.

This focused catalogue, with essays by Guggenheim Museum Curator of Photography Jennifer Blessing and Katrin Blum, aptly demonstrates Wall's continuing interrogation of the history of photographic representation — here specifically the legacies of documentary photography and Neorealist film.

Neorealist films defined something that was not at all rhetorical.