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The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
An award-winning film editor, Hungarian émigré and friend of Alexander Korda, Teddy Darvas was a dedicated film enthusiast who worked with David Lean, the Boulting Brothers and Vittorio De Sica. I first met him when I was a film editor in the 1960s and renewed my acquaintance when researching a book on David Lean in the '90s. I found him such a fount of information that I went back repeatedly....
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The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
There's never been a better time to indulge in a little Italian cinema, at least if you live on the coasts. For New Yorkers, that's meant classics from the likes of Visconti, Rossellini and Pietro Germi at the Italian Neo-Realism series at the Lincoln Center, and a new 35mm print of Vittorio De Sica's "The Bicycle Thief" at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas. If you live on the west coast, mid-November...
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The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Italy Feature Film Original Title: Miracolo a Milano Director: Vittorio De Sica Writers: Mario Chiari, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Vittorio De Sica, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Zavattini Cinematographer: Aldo Graziati Composer: Alessandro Cicognini Cast: Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Emma Gramatica, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena, Alba Arnova, Flora Cambi Much like Capra’s It’s...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Photo by chris787flickr via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Spike Jonze Signs Heads On & We Shoot: The Making Of Where The Wild Things Are @ Family Fans of Where the Wild Things Are and Spike Jonze will want to head to FAMILY at 5 this evening as the famed director signs copies of his book Heads On & We Shoot: The Making Of Where The Wild Things Are . About the book, via FAMILY's...
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The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
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Self-Styled Siren (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A movie blogger urging readers to go see The Bicycle Thief on a big screen is like a book reviewer urging people to check out this Faulkner fellow. But so perfect was the Siren's experience of this masterpiece, which is playing in a remastered version at Lincoln Plaza through Nov. 20, that she would feel churlish if she didn't urge her New York readers to go. The Siren had not seen Vittorio de Sica's...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
WWJD? Mope. | Photo courtesy of Warner Brothers Pictures Italia How do you make alt-porn even alt-ier? The Echo Park Film Center knows, with Honey Bunny v2 , a video-remix of 2008's Honey Bunny . Re-imagineer Margie Schnibbe is on hand for every moan & groan, and for all the would-be Jeremih 's out there, it's her birthday . If you prefer your alt-film on the straight and narrow, EPFC also hosts...
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Most Beautiful Fraud in the World (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Okay, it's actually 2009. November 7, 2009 to be exact, but it felt as if I were transported back to 1948. Why, you ask? Well, I'll tell you. The two films that - by large margin - hold the top spots in my list of the best films of 1948 were playing on the same day in the same city and this avid - or should I say rabid - cinephile (damn those who say the term is long out of vogue!) was able to see...
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giallo fever (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
There are a multitude of ways in which we can study film: Aesthetically, technologically, culturally, economically and so forth. The value of any given film for the discipline of film studies could be seen as lying in the extent to which it will support different interpretive perspectives. A film which can be looked at both for its aesthetics and for its wider significance is arguably thereby more...
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The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
In the Bollywood comedy Chintu Ji , the lyrics to the elaborate and colorful non sequitur "item number" coming at the end of the film are simply a list of famous international movie directors. Sing along: Tarantino, Wilder, Capra Ozu, Bertolucci, Peckinpah Fellin,i Visconti, Oshima Coppola… Coppola Wyler, Hitchcock, Wajda Mizoguchi, de Palma Wyler ,Hitchcock, Wajda Brian de Palma...
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The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Italy Feature Film Original Title: Ladri di biciclette Director: Vittorio De Sica Writers: Oreste Biancoli, Suso D'Amico, Vittorio De Sica, Adolfo Franci, Gerardo Guerrieri, Cesare Zavattini, Luigi Bartolini Cinematographer: Carlo Montuori Composer: Alessandro Cicognini Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari Avoiding the sentimentality...
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Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
We've heard many of these stories before but the making of "The Godfather" is still inspirational: Then there was the question of who would play Don Vito Corleone? Paramount had sounded out Anthony Quinn; but also on their list were Laurence Olivier – who was ill – George C Scott, Jean Gabin, Vittorio De Sica, John Huston, Paul Scofield, Victor Mature… Coppola wanted Marlon...
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familytreehouse.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The BFI did a top 50 films all kids must see….and it went like this… 1. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz/William Keighley, 1938, USA) 2.Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle, 1987, France/W.Germany) 3.Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985, USA) 4.Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale/Kirk Wise, 1991, USA) 5.Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948, Italy) 6.Billy Elliot (Stephen...
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Day for Night (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
It amazes me at times how many wonderful films there are to discover and sometimes these works can be found from filmmakers we already know. Because of my paper and the recent Rossellini films released by Criterion and Eclipse, I feel like Rossellini was as great of a filmmaker as Bresson , Ozu , and Olmi . You don't really get that others have had this impression until you look back at the writings...
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Holiday Cottage Edinburgh (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
A selection of films are in the cottage but if there are any specifics, particularly off the following list, just ask & we'll try & reserve them for you We love films… We’re continuing to build up a collection of films, it’s our second decade and the library is getting bigger. At this point we’ve bought loads of old classic foreign language flicks, mostly with subtitles....
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