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CURRIER HOUSE DINING HALL, Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief...
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...
...sound after listening to Giorgio Bassani tell a story. The former editor of the literary magazine Botteghe Oscure and the discoverer of Giuseppe (The Leopard) Lampedusa, Bassani is best known in the U.S. for his lambent novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis from which the recent Vittoria De Sica film was made. Like Garden, this book is set in the author's native city of Ferrara during the 1930s. Also as in Garden, the narrator of Behind the Door is a wealthy, sensitive young...
Vittorio de Sica's Bicyale Thief and Roberto Rossellini's Open City, two Italian neo-realist classics, the former wearing a bit with age, the latter as powerful as when first released after World War II, at the BRATTLE THEATER. Thief at 6 and 9:30. City at Bogart is Back, again, at the HARVARD SQUARE THEATER, with Woody Allen's comic homage Play It Agaln Sam at 3:25, 6:10 and 9:40 and Michael Curtiz's Casablanca...
Garden of Finzi-Continis--Overrated. A very heavy and sentimental Vittorio De Sica flick about the round-up of Jews in Fascist Italy. Features the most ineiegant rich clan since Visconti's The Damned. CINEMA KENMORE SQUARE...