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Anyone who did not see "Open City" and "Paisan" when they were first released several years ago should not miss the impressive double bill now playing at the Kenmore. Directed by Rossellini, these two movies of war-time Italy are great examples of the New Italian Film--exciting, brutal, and even at times humorous...
Along the way to this clumsy denouement, Stromboli offers some well-shot scenery, a volcanic eruption and an exciting tuna-fishing sequence. Virtually nothing suggests the Rossellini who directed Open City and Paisan. Though he has disowned the film as RKO's tampered version, much of the blame is clearly...
...your seenes in Raly during the war. Throw in a big gob of partisans some mean-looking German soldiery, sprinkle liberally with social significance, squalling infants, breast women, and peasants and you might have "Paisan" or "Open City." But in this case you have "Outery," and you have a very fine motion picture...
Ingrid had teetered on her celluloid pedestal last spring when headlines carried reports of a superheated romance with Italian Cinemaster Roberto (Paisan, Open City] Rossellini. Ingrid's husband, Swedish Dr. Peter Lindstrom, rushed to see the pair in Italy. Ingrid and Rossellini stopped work on a movie and went into a huddle with the doctor, but the three emerged with a statement that left the triangle standing (TIME, May 16). Last week, goaded by day-to-day newspaper reports about her affair with balding, 43-year-old Director Rossellini, Ingrid chose to step down off the pedestal under...
Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini (Paisan, Open City), separated from his wife and son since 1942, told his lawyers to file divorce papers. He is still on the island of Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian, where he is directing a movie about life among the fishermen, featuring an amateur cast and starring Ingrid Bergman...