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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gold of Naples. The year's best cinemanthology: four short stories filmed by Italy's Vittorio De Sica with a sunny humor that casts some frightening shadows (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Choice for 1957 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

Fire Under Her Skin definitively proves that the "realism" of De Sica, Fellini, and others has become a stock formula and has lost the wonderful freshness that it once seemed to possess. All the inevitable ingredients are here, the triangle--or is it a pentagon--of passions, the sensitive man who kills the thing he loves, etc., replete with much fondling and other fine Gallic touches. Of course the "unhappy ending" has become stock too, with the usual frustrations, murders, and general cataclysm. The plot is so implausible that the outcome seems apparent before this charming idyll has ground through...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Fire Under Her Skin | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 22, 1957 | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 17, 1957 | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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