Word: sica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970). Vittorio de Sica's film about a Jewish family in fascist Italy, circa 1938. With Dominique Sanda and Helmut Berger. Ch. 4, 9:30 p.m. Color, 1 1/2 hours...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, The Mad Musician, The Terrible Turkish Executioner, The Magic Well, and The Wizard Alcofrisbas by Georges Melies, and General Della Rovere by Roberto Rossellini starring Vittorio de Sica, Nov. 15 at 7:30, $1, American Revolution II by The Film Group, and Red Flag Canal...
CURRIER HOUSE DINING HALL, Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief...
...finest film in the area this weekend is probably Bicycle Thief (1949, by Cesare Zavattini and Vittorio de Sica), at Currier. The understatement and visual beauty of this film underscore a simple drama: an Italian workman and his small son search Rome after a bicycle thief steals the bicycle on which the man's job depends. The amateur actors (a factory worker and a working class boy) playing lead roles are really a joy to see. This was the first major film to use amateurs, and their performances seem almost effortlessly effective. When de Sica and Zavattini approached American film...
AMONG THE DIRECTORS whose films were shown, there was a surprising absence of the directors that have shaped American notions of the native Italian cinema, and an abundance of the cheaper blood-and-guts thrillers that are the trademark of Italy's most successful commercial cinema. De Sica--whose current illness elicited a message of good cheer from the gathering--was represented by a single film, Pasolini's Orestiad was presented, and Bertolucci's pseudopolitical Before the Revolution was dusted off, but Fellini received no recognition, and Visconti figured only as the object of indignation at news that the director...