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BRATLE: Last two days for Ashes and Diamonds, a sensitively-handled Polish movie about a resistance fighter at the end of World War II. Starting Monday, October 16, is Vittorio de Sica's newest masterpiece of acting-direction: General Della Rovere, the story of a down-and-out Italian pimp who finally sees the light. Somewhat overdrawn, it's still in the best tradition of Italian realism. Evenings...
...creation. Fellini, 41, and Antonioni, 48, are experimenters whose latest films delicately dissect the effete upper classes. Visconti, who is 55, still concerns himself with peasants and is old-guard; in Rocco he has reverently revived the techniques he and such directors as Rossellini (Open City) and De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) used in the 1940's. Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour brawl of exposed frames that Visconti...
Starts Sunday: G. B. Shaw plus Peter Sellers plus Sophia Loren plus Alastair Sim plusplus Vittorio De Sica ought to equal something grand, zany and sparkling. But THE MILLIONAIRESS is merely routine gag comedy all too much of the time. In point of fact, this is a very dud avocado, indeed. Co-featured is a travesty of William Faulkner, plagiaristically entitled SANCTUARY. Don't expect to recognize the characters if you read the book. Lee Remick whimpers as Temple Drake, and Yves Montand is hopelessly miscast as her down and way-out croole lover. Daily from...
EXETER: In Major Della Rovere-Vittorio De Sica transforms from a raffish war profiteer (he helps political prisoners escape--for a fee) to the embodiment of the heroic general he is forced to impersonate. Continuous from...
...Women (Embassy). Sophia Loren is a fine Italian ham, but unfortunately most U.S. directors can't see the prosciutto for the melon. Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica knows better. In Gold of Naples he cast her as the main dish in a penny-a-pizza palace, proved her a comedienne with wit as well as It. In Two Women he demonstrates that given astute direction and the chance to play in her own language, Actress Loren can also fill a tragic role...