There are personalities that have completely changed the way cinema is conceived in Italy. In the case of Vittorio De Sica, he 'invented' cinema in Italy, becoming the father of neorealism, the genre ...

Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Bicycle ...

The screening is set for 6 p.m. and will be followed by a review session in the presence of the film critic Sahar Asrazad, Honaronline reported. Based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Alberto ...

One of the original critics turned filmmakers who helped jump-start the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette began shooting his debut feature in 1957, well before that cinema revolution officially kicked ...

Could there be a better time to revisit the compassionate films of Vittorio De Sica? De Sica (1902–1974), who often addressed the theme of economic hardship, accounted for the melancholy in his best ...

If Vittorio De Sica had directed only one movie, the 1948 drama “Bicycle Thieves,” his name would still be enshrined in the history of cinema. That film—screening Sept. 16-19 in Film Forum’s monthlong ...

Two dozen people live in the North Dakota hamlet of Leith. They think their new neighbor is a bit odd, but then discover that he is one of America’s leading white supremacists—and has been steadily ...

Vittorio De Sica, born on July 7, 1901 in Sora, Lazio was an Italian director and actor, a principal figure in the neorealist movement that fundamentally changed the cinematic setting in Europe and ...