Word: vittorio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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...
EXETER: Roberto Rossellini's latest (it's also one of his best) GENERAL DELLA ROVERE. Vittorio de Sica is a shiftless panhandler who impersonates the General for the Nazis, and is eventually metamorphosed into a man as brave and loyal as Della Rovere had been. An exciting and moving film. Evenings...
...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...