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...career. But her last two movies (Arch of Triumph, Joan of Arc) did not measure up to her own standards of art. "I am willing to break my neck," she told a reporter, "to do something new." After she had seen the Italian-made prizewinning movies, Open City and Paisan, she wrote Director Roberto Rossellini: "If you ever need an actress with a Swedish accent, just call...
...movies-within-movies of the latest German jet-fighters. The Generals push their map-pins and calculate their losses with a pleasant detachment from reality, unfortunately near the conventional idea of all military command. This was not true of the play; it is not characteristic of all films. "Paisan," which showed just how good war movies could be, had a command decision too, in an episode involved with guerrilla warfare in the lonely river marshes north of Rome, but "Paisan's" decision involved active people, not figures on a chart. And the difference shows up in the relative emotional punch...
Italy's swarthy, balding Director Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan), on his first visit to the U.S., was taking the fast pace of Hollywood in stride last week. The telephone in his double suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel was kept ringing by cinema celebrities eager to entertain him. The evening he arrived, he dined with Ingrid Bergman (he expects to sign her up for his next picture). The next night there was a small, stylish dinner given by Writer-Director Billy Wilder. One morning David O. Selznick called...
...Said Distributor Joe Burstyn, whose firm imported Paisan, Open City and other highly successful foreign films, "When I see what a few young people with good ideas can do when they take a camera and go out on the streets of New York, I wonder why the hell we go overseas to look for good pictures...
...Paisan" was acted largely by non-professional Americans and Italians, giving it none of the forced histrionics of so many current films. Voted the outstanding film of the year by the National Board of Review, it is different from any American movie you will ever see, and so completely successful in purpose that it can ill afford to be missed...