Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio De Sica 3 titles, 45th in points with 15,777 De Sica made post-war films in the style of Italian postwar realism. These films usually have a gritty, black-and-white style that closely resembles documentaries, shot on the streets in real light. In an interview on a dvd, he said the day of studios making happy escapism for the masses were over, that a new world demanded films of social relevance that attacked the problems faced by humanity. De Sica usually cast amateurs in his...Read Full Story

[2011 Update, film polls through June 2011 included] © William L. Sinclair This begins our series of posts of the top ranked films on the internet by individual nations. I think Italy is my favorite nation for foreign language films, followed by France, Japan, China-Hong Kong-Taiwan, and Russia. The U.S. easily has the most listed, with 502 in the top 1000, an increase from 482 in 2009. France is second with 87 (but 135 if you include joint efforts). The UK is next with 112. Many...Read Full Story

The Bicycle Thief Lamberto Maggiorani (Actor) , Enzo Staiola (Actor) , Vittorio De Sica (Director)   |   Format: DVD (133) Buy new: $15.99 66 used & new from $9.90 (Visit the Best Sellers in Foreign Films list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description A beautiful, simple story of a man in post-war Rome who needs his bicycle in order to work at his job. No sooner does he retrieve it from pawn, then it is stolen. The heartwrenching search teaches the...Read Full Story

One of my favorite movies of all time is Vittorio De Sica's "The Bicycle Thieves." No director I've ever seen casts and shoots people more realistically and no one tells a small stories about "unimportant people" with such poignancy and subtlety. Today, work is a little slow and with not much to do I snuck out at lunch and took in De Sica's 1947 movie "Shoeshine." Here's a "New York Times" recap of the story: "Set in Rome, soon after the American Army had driven out the Germans but before the...Read Full Story

Sophia Loren: Award Collection [Blu-ray] (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow / Marriage Italian Style / Sunflower / Vittorio D / Boccaccio '70) Sophia Loren (Actor) , Marcello Mastroianni (Actor) , Vittorio De Sica (Director) , Federico Fellini (Director)   |   Format: Blu-ray Release Date: September 20, 2011 Buy new: $69.99 (Visit the Hot New Releases in Art House & International list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description YESTERDAY, TODAY & TOMORROW...Read Full Story