That the Vesuvius-like eruption of Italian neo-realism altered the landscape of film history is widely agreed upon. It's less easy to come to a consensus on what "Italian neo-realism" actually was. The gist is this: In the period after liberation, a group of already established filmmakers began making movies that showed snapshot verities of previously unrecorded moments of Italian life, usually set among the poor, frequently shot out in city streets with... More >>>