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 first of the “New Waves,” Italian Neorealism was the starting gun of postwar film culture, and Vittorio De Sica, retro’d wall to wall at Film Forum, was its point runner. You really had to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROME — Italian director Vittorio De Sica‘s 1971 foreign-language film Oscar winner “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” will be reissued in a digitally restored print funded by Italian fashion label ...

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 ...

The film will have its first U.S theatrical run at New York's Film Forum, June 16 - 27. Italian director and actor (and neorealist luminary) Vittorio De Sica is best known to most stateside audiences ...

Helmut Berger, the Austrian actor who became an international star through films by directors Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica and Massimo Dallamano, died today in his home city of Salzburg. He was ...

Imagine Buster Keaton crossed with David Lynch, with a bit of Billy Wilder satire tossed into the mix, and you’ll have a rough idea of the wild and crazy tightrope 1963’s absurdist “Il Boom” manages ...