Word: burstyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bicycle Thief (De Sica; Mayer-Burstyn), an Italian-made film by Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine) arrives in the U.S. heavy with prizes and praise collected in Europe. Rene Clair has called it "the best film for 30 years." It is a fine, sentimental tragedy, filled with bitter social comment and presented in the realistic style which the modern Italian moviemakers have made their trademark...
...Quiet One (Film Documents; Mayer-Burstyn) is a shoestring documentary which ties up a big subject in a compact package. Produced as a 16-mm. film at a cost of $28,000, this gentle study of a childhood tragedy has stirred such enthusiasm among preview audiences and potential exhibitors that it has been blown up to standard 35-mm. size and will be distributed nationally...
...Said Distributor Joe Burstyn, whose firm imported Paisan, Open City and other highly successful foreign films, "When I see what a few young people with good ideas can do when they take a camera and go out on the streets of New York, I wonder why the hell we go overseas to look for good pictures...
Second--bow, Mathewson; 2, Potter; 3, Aikman; 4, Saltonstall; 5, Atwood; 6, Merrick; 7, Carter; stroke, Rouner; cox, Burstyn...
Palsan (Mayer-Burstyn) links together half a dozen short stones, each with different characters, and ranges from Sicily to the River Po. At its best, it beats any other movie the Italians have made. Its unity is in its theme: the relationships between men at war (chiefly U.S. soldiers) and the men & women native to the battleground. Paisan (rough G.I. translation: "bud") was directed by Roberto Rossellini, who made the famed Open City...