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Il cammino della speranza – The Path of Hope (Pietro Germi – 1950)

Shlomi Ron — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:59:42 +0000

Right from the opening scene where you see the village women all veiled in black waiting patiently outside the mine for their husbands who refuse to come up to avoid the mine closing – you see direct similarities with another Nerorealism harbinger – Visconti’s 1948 La terra trema (The Earth Trembles). In the latter, the black… Continue reading Il cammino della speranza – The Path of Hope (Pietro Germi – 1950)

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Terraferma (Emanuele Crialese – 2011)

Shlomi Ron — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:20:28 +0000

These days I have roughly an hour commute time between 8AM-9AM, so I find myself spending the time listening to Italian live radio broadcast (thank you TuneIn Radio app). This is one of the blessings of broadband streaming; your views and surroundings are rooted in the US, but your real-time soundtrack is coming from elsewhere… Continue reading Terraferma (Emanuele Crialese – 2011)

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ItalianDocsOnline 2014: i fantasmi di San Berillo – The Ghosts of San Berillo (Edoardo Morabito – 2013)

Shlomi Ron — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:07:54 +0000

Italian Cinema London has launched today a week-long online festival dedicated to Italian documentaries, aptly called ItalianDocsOnline. It’s a quite innovative program that exposes audiences around the world with some of the latest Italian documentaries. And what’s more it’s free with audience voting to add a bit of a sizzle to the event. Holly, one… Continue reading ItalianDocsOnline 2014: i fantasmi di San Berillo – The Ghosts of San Berillo (Edoardo Morabito – 2013)

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Open Roads 2013: E’ stato il figlio – It was the Son (Daniele Cipri – 2012)

Shlomi Ron — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:14:50 +0000

It’s June, so that means it’s time for Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2013 at New York’s Lincoln Film Society. It’s a fantastic annual festival that brings some of the freshest voices in Italian Cinema, thus breaking the chain for the typical crop of old classics that some Italian cinema fests tend to focus on.… Continue reading Open Roads 2013: E’ stato il figlio – It was the Son (Daniele Cipri – 2012)

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