Word: neorealistic
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First came the neorealist show. On opening night, the confused guests sat down on the armchair that was part of Jim Dine's painting called Four Rooms, and piled their champagne glasses into the porcelain sink (painted black) that is part of his lesser work, Black Bathroom No. 2. Two days later came a "lecture" by Modernist Composer John Cage, who accompanied his own voice with three tape recordings of his own voice, thus saying four different meaningless things at once. But that only led up to the climactic event, a happening called "Stars...
...that landed them in prison. They cannot distinguish between the people they felt like murdering and those they actually did murder; they feel as guilty for their thoughts as for their deeds. In brooding conversations in their cell, they mull over the infinite possibilities of their guilt in the neorealist manner made familiar by Robbe-Grillet's Last Year at Marienbad...
Married. Tony Richardson, 33. gangling director of neorealist stage (Look Back in Anger) and screen (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning); and West End Actress Vanessa Redgrave. 25, Actor Sir Michael's willowy daughter; in London's Hammersmith Register Office...
...Roof (Italian). The housing shortage may sound like a trivial subject, but in Rome it can be heartbreaking, as this excellent neorealist film demonstrates with both humor and pathos...
Aside from their esthetic merits, the four stories give heartening evidence that mutiny is in the making aboard Italy's censorship. In 1952, complaining that the neorealist school of moviemakers had formed a gloom brigade that was ruining the foreign market for Italian films, the Italian government forced its state-subsidized movie industry to lower standards and raise skirts. Nevertheless, in Gold of Naples, Director De Sica has managed to say with a smile what he could not have said with a sneer. The four stories are variations on the same theme of human bondage that De Sica develops...