Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roof (De Sica; Trans-Lux) is one of the few memorable films produced in almost a decade by the once-daring Italian movie industry. In ailing postwar Italy, cinema was briefly practiced as a kind of social medicine. But the would-be healers prescribed such a bitter pill-neorealism -that the public refused to swallow it; most of the famed Italian films of the late '40s won rave reviews but lost money. In this picture, made in 1956, the ablest of the neorealists-Director Vittorio De Sica and Scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini, who together produced Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief...
...Roof, they live like animals. When Natale (Giorgio Listuzzi), a $1.50-a-day hod carrier, marries Luisa (Gabriella Pallotti), he takes her home to a two-room apartment owned by his brother-in-law and already occupied by four adults and three children. The newlyweds manage to fit their bed into a corner of the smaller room which they share with Natale's parents and his sister, who turns out to be a peeping tomboy. Some nights, just to get a little privacy, the honeymooners sneak out and make love in the side yard. In this human hutch-with...
...extravagantly funny frame of tangled step-ladders and window-casings, concerns an encounter between a stranger and the residents of a thoroughly inhabited apartment house. The stranger has assumed responsibility for the continued existence of a squirrel, who has a careless habit of jumping off the apartment roof--always into the stranger's arms...
...Philip Johnson's New Harmony Shrine, New Harmony, Ind., a bell-shaped structure with shingle roof that unabashedly owes its inspiration to Hindu temples, yet proved so complicated that an IBM machine took two weeks to calculate its compound curves...
...bought the 16-story apartment house at 1010 Fifth Avenue (corner of 82nd Street) for $1,000,000, putting up considerably less of his own cash. It is now worth upwards of $4,000,000, and Roy Chalk lives there, has built a suburban-style ranch house on the roof for his daughter's family...