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Died. Joseph Burstyn, 53. U.S. importer-distributor of foreign films (Open City, Paisan, The Bicycle Thief), who fought a 1951 New York State ban on The Miracle and last year won a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing it; of a coronary thrombosis...
...cold, grey, documentary photography powerfully evokes a world of medieval desolation. At the same time, the picture glows with a warm lyricism. In its blend of tenderness and turbulence, Flowers of St. Francis is a film poem that deserves to rank with Rossellini's own Open City and Paisan...
...others: Roberto (Open City, Paisan) Rossellini and Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica...
...Tight Little Island. 2. The Heiress. 3. They Had What It Took. 4. Paisan. 5. The Bicycle Thief...
...Paisan," which is a series of six unconnected episodes tracing the Allied advance through Italy, set in the of the Po River. The other episodes, while sometimes over-sentimental, are also memorable. "Open City" is a tense account of the underground movement in Rome, but more than that it is the story of a man's willingness to undergo torture for his ideals...