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Beyond Recall. The new thrust in movies took inception from the collapse of Hollywood in the early '50s and the revival of Europe as a center of film production. Since the European industry was small and loosely organized, such directors as Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard could pretty well shoot them as they saw them and let the censor take the hindmost. As a result, they made a number of fine far-out films (The Bicycle Thief, Wild Strawberries, 8½, L'Avventura, Hiroshima, Mon Amour...
...Sellers get into this mess? He obviously counted on such proven professionals as Scriptwriter Neil Simon (The Odd Couple) and Director Vittorio De Sica (Marriage-Italian Style) to work a miracle and save the show. Was he ever wrong...
Little happens, except what Passer calls "life as it is, unheroic, unexceptional but nonetheless interesting." More than interesting, Lighting reflects a humanist tradition seldom seen on the screen since the early films of René Clair, Renoir and De Sica. The young city visitors quicken the tempo of existence for Bambas' family. Everyone goes off to supply music at a country funeral. Later the menfolk, including Grandpa, get together with the village pharmacist to form a string quartet in a rehearsal sequence that is disrupted by intramural arguments and arthritic aches, with additional time called by Peter...
...been released. But the bikini brought her to the attention of foreign moviemakers, who promptly cast her in seven major pictures, all of which still have to see the light of day. She is now winding up work on The Biggest Bundle of Them All, with Vittorio De Sica, who, when asked recently about her acting ability, replied passionately, "Such eyes! Such eyes!" Soon she will begin filming a comedy, Shoot Loud, Louder . . . I Don't Understand, with Marcello Mastroianni...
...first French-language film, Director Vittorio De Sica updates his vocabulary but views the lively young set through a mist of weary Old World romanticism. The plot loses its cool at the outset by dwelling on the miracle of love at first sight between Castelnuovo and a shy medical student, played by Christine Delaroche, a movie newcomer in the Susan Strasberg-Geraldine Chaplin tradition. Shortly, boy gets girl, girl gets pregnant, boy gets nervous. The rest of their time is spent agonizing over an imminent abortion while the camera strives to fill every pause with poetry. Young World...