Word: neorealist
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...coming. He's wearing A cashmere vest, talking about the limitations of the Sangiovese grape and the appeal of Italian neorealist films and then--boom--Alexander Payne whacks the top of my knee to emphasize a point. The Nebraskan bonhomie explodes right there on my kneecap. He does it again. And again. He's the kind of guy who can swirl a glass of Pinot Noir like a pro and then down it with a "Cheers...
...viewed as an underdog or a front-runner, Spielberg's got it in the bag this year, and rightly so. No other director in the world could have created the searingly realistic battle scenes of Private Ryan. Don't talk to me about narrative flaws--with his heart-stopping, neorealist D-Day sequence alone, Spielberg has earned his second statuette...
...might guess, given Pasolini's ideological stance and neorealist training, this happiness does not last long. After Carmine forces Mamma Roma back on the streets, Ettore falls in with a crowd of young delinquents. He quits school and his job and begins to steal, even from Mamma. This soon leads him to prison, as it leads the film to its tragic ending...
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...
Here she was in 1949: an Academy Award-winning actress, for the preceding three years one of the two most popular female stars in America (the other was Betty Grable), going off to Italy to make Stromboli with Neorealist Master Roberto Rossellini. Soon there were hints that something more than professional respect informed their relationship, rumors devastatingly confirmed by the illegitimate birth of her first child by Rossellini. Her first husband won custody of their child in an ugly divorce action, there was a vicious denunciation in the U.S. Senate, and, finally, what might have been the best years...