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...Goin' Down the Road owes much to the early DeSica in its attempts to communicate the feeling of a life-style by approaching its subject in its own terms, on its own grounds, avoiding the poetic affects a detached narrative viewpoint allows. It is the characters', not the director's moods we see being indulged. But Peter and Joey are simply not complex enough to carry a feature-length film...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Shoestring Humanism | 1/15/1971 | See Source »

KENMORE: TWO WOMEN, a film version of Alberto Moravia's novel about a mother and daughter who flee to the mountains during the Italian campaign of World War II and return too soon to the city. Sophia Loren acts (well), DeSica directs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKLY CALENDAR | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...emerge from postwar Poland, ASHES AND DIAOMNDS is beautifully put-together story of a disillusioned resistance fighter near the end of the Second World has been acclaimed by nearly everyone, including the Crimson Evenings at 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 October 14. It is followed by Vitorrio deSica's latest triumph of acting and direction, GENERAL DELLA ROVERE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKLY CALENDAR | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...movie was made on vacation as well as location, and this shows, much to the film's advantage. The plot is a crazy hopscotch around the Mediterranean, with side-jumps into subplots that pull up short in dead ends. The picture begins with a DeSica-like village square scene--a cacaphonous little brass band and a crowd through which are led four caricature desperadoes in handcuffs. They are Bogie's conspirators in an African uranium swindle. The movie flashes back to explain the scene. The explanation is the movie proper. It involves the characters in a voyage on a terrifically...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Beat the Devil | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...David O. Selznick's version of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, starring Rock Hudson as the World War 1 American ambulance driver working with the Italian army, Jennifer Jones as Catherine, the English nurse, and Vittorio DeSica as an Italian army officer. ¶ Director David Lean's eye-filling The Bridge on the River Kwai, the story of a British officer (beautifully played by versatile Alec Guinness, ably supported by William Holden and Jack Hawkins) who builds a bridge for his Japanese captors, to restore his fellow prisoners' self-respect, then helps destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Can | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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