Early ITALIAN Cinema Bertolini/Padovan Italian Neo-Realism2 Luchino Visconti3 Ossessione (1943)4 14.

99 Terra Trema: La Episodio del mare (1948) 12.99 Bellissima (1952) Senso (1954) Le notti blanche (1957), 13.96 Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1958) 8.18 Il Gattopardo (1963), R1 (longer version) 18.99 Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...(1965) La Caduta degli dei (= The Damned) (1969) Morte a Venezia (1971) Ludwig (1972) Gruppo di familglia in un interno/Conversation Piece (1974) LInnocente (1976), 7.99 Rome, Open City (1945), Pais (1947) Germania anno zero (1948)5 LAmore (1948)6 Stromboli (1950) La macchina ammazzacativi (1952) Viaggio in Italia/Voyage to Italy (1953) Sciusci (Shoeshine) (1946) Ladri de biciclette (1948) 10 Miraclo a Milano (1951)7 Umberto D. (1952), 8.998 La Ciociara (1961) Boccaccio 70 (1962) LInferno (1911)1

Rossellini

Vittorio de Sica

Multiple Directors
1 2

First full-length Italian feature film, an adaptation of Dante. Influenced by the verisimo movement in Italian opera, which itself has roots in Wagner. Also influenced by the poetic realism of 1930s French directors such as Renoir and Carn. Visconti and Rossellini(?) worked for Renoir early in their careers. The Italian neo-realist movement ends with the fulfilment of its goals in de Sicas Umberto D. Rossellini had already begun, at this time, to examine the limits of representation. A move to pink neorealism which reflected recent economic progress of the Italian economy. The pink refers to the fact that increasing the reality being depicted could accommodate the beauty of a Sophie Loren! Followed in turn by commedia allItaliana which though comedic in tone addressed serious social issues. Neo-realism would also lead to the spaghetti Western. 3 Visconti produces perhaps the first neo-realist film, but largely goes beyond neo-realism in his own style. Note that, unusually for a foreign director, Visconti gets consistently high marks on IMDb for all of his films. 4 First neo-realist film. A version of the The Postman Always Rings Twice. 5 Completes so-called neorealist trilogy. 6 First of two transitional films exploring the capacity of film to depict reality. 7 Mixture of neo-realism and fantasy anticipates Fellinis characteristic style. 8 Considered the last neo-realist film, followed successively by pink neorealism and commedia allItaliana

Le Streghe (1967) Later Italian Directors With roots in neo-realism Fellini Luci del variet (1950) Lo Sceicco bianco (1952) I vitelloni (1953) La Strada (1954), Il Bidone (1955) Le Notti de Cabiria (1957) La Dolce Vita (1960) m 8 (1962) m Giuletta degli spiriti (1965) Satyricon (1969) m Roma (1972) m Amarcord (1973), Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976)9 Prova dorchestra (1978) La citt delle donne (1980) E la nave va (1983) Ginger e Fred (1986) Intervista (1987) La voce della luna (1990)10 Accattone (1961) (with Gospel and Hawks, c. 32) Mama Roma (1962) 18 La Rabbia (1963) La Ricotta (35 mins), segment of Ro.Go.Pa.G (1963)12 included on Mama Roma criterion dvd. Gospel of St. Matthew (1964) m Love Meetings (1965) 12 Seeking Locations in Palestine for The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1965) 22 The Hawks and The Sparrows (1966) 12 Le Streghe/The Witches (1967) Oedipus Rex (1967) 13; 32 for this +Porcile+Love Meetings Teorema (1968) Porcile/Pigsty (1969) 12 Medea (1969) c. 28 amaz.fr Decameron (1971) Canterbury Tales (1972) Arabian Nights (1974) m Salo (1975) LAvventura (1960), R1 17.79

Pasolini11

Antonioni
9 10

Interestingly, Donald Sutherland plays title role. See Alex in Wonderland. A brave new direction, reminiscent of the subjectivity of 8 but more extreme! 11 A kind of picaresque second neorealism. 12 Also Godard.

La Notte (1961), R1 13.50 LEclisse (1962), R1 17.79 Il Desorto Rosso (1964) Blow-up (1966) Zabriskie Point (1970) Professione: Reporter (= The Passenger) (1975) Marco Bellocchio Gillo Pontecorvo Sergio Leone Fists in the Pocket (1965) The Battle of Algiers (1966) A Fistful of Dollars (1964) For a Few Dollars More (1965) The Good, the bad and the Ugly (1966) The Magnificent Stranger (1967) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) A Fistful of Dynamite/Duck, You Sucker (1971) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Django (1966)13 The Great Silence (1968)

Serio Corbucci

13

Similar theme to A Fistful of Dollars, but even more influential at least in Europe.