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Screenplay by Sergio Amidei and Ettore Scola...
Scola and his screenwriter, the late Sergio Amidei (whose credits include such neorealist masterpieces as Shoeshine and Bicycle Thief), want to make two points: that Louis XVI's plans were unhinged not by ideology but by a series of stupid accidents; that the ideas and impressions of the travelers jouncing along in the King's wake are blinkered by their subjectivity and their failure to account for history's indifference to the logical linking of events, which can be imposed by hindsight. Only Barrault's marvelously ironic Restif, curious as a cat and just as amoral...
...most ridiculous regulations I ever heard of." The final straw came when Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, South Carolina's Ernest Hollings and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, were photographed staring with distaste at a skimpy sample school lunch. Said FRAC Head Nancy Amidei: "We didn't have to do anything-they handed us the issue on a platter...
...Directed by NANNI LOY Screenplay by SERGIO AMIDEI and EMILIO SANNA
...American standards, Shoeshine was made on a shoestring: 31 million lire ($138,000). (Open City cost only $100,000.) But it was a long, hard scrimmage in the making. Neither Producer Paolo W. Tamburella (who thought up the idea), nor Director Vittorio De Sica, nor Sergio Amidei (who wrote Open City) and his three fellow writers are exactly yes-men. Finding the right actors and getting fine performances out of young amateurs-they were all shoeshine boys-was no small job in itself. And there were plenty of subsidiary difficulties. (When Allied authorities forbade G.I.s to act in the film...