Italian neorealism
Italian Neorealism , also known as The Golden Age of Italian Cinema , is a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class, filmed on location, frequently using non-professional actors.
Italian Neorealist films mostly contend with the difficult economic and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, representing changes in the Italian psyche and conditions of everyday life , including poverty , oppression, injustice and desperation.
Blue valentine
Romantic movies - Drama love story romance movies
Blue Valentine is a 2010 American romantic drama film named after the Tom Waits album , written and directed by Derek Cianofrance .
The film depicts a married couple, Dean Pereira (Gosling) and Cynthia "Cindy" Heller (Williams), shifting back and forth in time between their courtship and the dissolution of their marriage several years later. Michelle Williams was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress .
Film Review：
"Blue Valentine" extremely accurate portrayal of Life for some American-style marriage, the decline of the history of love, but also throwing a non-real world that indulges couples pot of cold water, but also the history of the decline of marriage can point and surface covering many of today's social problems in the US marriage level, can be used as a negative typical American marriage to look at, this film the most explicit, the most extreme place is not erotic, but brutal, naked to show us how marriage kind of become the tomb of love.
What is tragedy? Tragedy is the good things that you think you see the destruction of the living, "Blue Valentine" is counted on this year's most successful love tragedy, and it is almost completely subvert a person's attitude towards love and marriage, in large Most people's eyes, love, marriage is an extremely good thing, but something "Blue Valentine" is expressed in love and marriage deep despair, the whole piece is indulging in a melancholy atmosphere, but the film The cold violence more people feel depressed. Dean and Cindy's face the reality of marital problems irreconcilable conflict constantly upgrading, deterioration of their marriage eventually sent to the grave.
Videos to expand the use of double cross narrative film, a line based on real time and space as the origin, described Dean and Cindy walk after the sixth year of marriage, marital status worsening, this line is the emotion go down constantly. Another line was six years ago, Dean and Cindy from acquaintance to friend into the marriage hall, this time their love is getting strong and sweet, this emotion is constantly going up the line, and when complete is to go to the opposite direction of two clues are intertwined, the film had a huge emotional gap, the experience of life difficult for water to happiness than the initial and final pain of longing love, longing movie splashed marriage pot of cold water. Time is a terrible thing, is no match for time commitment and marshes, face gradually cool feeling, facing the reality of a measure to choose between, face their own different ideas of life, Dean and Cindy ultimately can only be like the movie last Like back the opposite direction, lopsided.
Bicycle Thieves（1948）
Bicycle Thieves is a 1948 film directed by Vittorio De Sica .
The film follows the story of a poor father searching post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job which was to be the salvation of his young family.
It received an Academy Honorary Award in 1950 and, just four years after its release, was deemed the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics; fifty years later the same poll ranked it sixth among greatest-ever films. It is also one of the top ten among the British Film Institute's list of films you should see by the age of 14 .
Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves were awarded honorary Oscars, while Ieri, oggi, domani and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar .
Indeed, the great critical success of Sciuscià (the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Oscar.
These two films generally are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. Bicycle Thieves was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history.
Persona (1966 )
Persona is a 1966 black and white Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann . Persona ’s story revolves around a young nurse named Alma (Bibi Andersson) and her patient, a well-known stage actress named Elisabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann), who has suddenly ceased to speak.
Persona has been labelled a psychological drama and modernist horror and was subject to cuts due to the film's controversial subject matter. It is the sixth collaboration between influential cinematographer Sven Nyqvist and director Ingmar Bergman and features their trademark minimalism.
As with Bergman's other works, the film is shot and set in Sweden and deals with the themes of illness, bleakness, death and insanity.
Ernst Ingmar Bergman （14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer and producer who worked in film, television, and theatre.
He is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential auteurs of all time [ 1 ] and is most famous for films such as The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972), and Fanny and Alexander (1982).
Most of his films were set in his country, and numerous films from Through a Glass Darkly (1961) onward were filmed on the island of Fårö . His work often dealt with death, illness, faith, betrayal, bleakness and insanity.
The Eclipse （1962）L'Eclisse (English: Eclipse ) is a 1962 Italian drama film written and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti .
Filmed on location in Rome and Verona, L'Eclisse is about a young woman who breaks up with an older lover and then has an affair with a confident young stockbroker whose materialistic nature eventually undermines their relationship. The film is considered the last part of a trilogy which was preceded by L'Avventura (1960) and La Notte (1961). In Martin Scorsese 's documentary My Voyage to Italy , the director called L'Eclisse the boldest film in Antonioni's trilogy. L'Eclisse won the Special Jury Prize at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or .
Michelangelo Antonioni 1960-1967
Best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" — L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962)—Antonioni "redefined the concept of narrative cinema" and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large.
He produced "enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" and rejected action in favour of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story.His films defined a "cinema of possibilities".
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