CINEMA: 'BIGGEST EVER' NEOREALISM EVENT IN NEW YORK

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CINEMA: 'BIGGEST EVER' NEOREALISM EVENT IN NEW YORK

CINEMA: 'BIGGEST EVER' NEOREALISM EVENT IN NEW YORK

(ANSA) - New York, October 30 - More than 40 landmarks in Italian neorealist cinema from Rossellini, De Sica and Visconti to Fellini and Pasolini are set to be be shown in New York in the biggest-ever spotlight on Italy's famous postwar film movement.

The October 30-November 25 showcase at the Walter Reade Theater, set up by Cinecitta' Luce and Italy's National Film Archives with the help of the Lincoln Center's Film Society, is entitled Italian Neorealism And The Birth of Modern Cinema.

Part-funded by the Italian culture ministry's cinema department and sponsored by the Italian presidency, the program includes works by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Lattuada, Giuseppe De Santis, Renato Castellani, Vittorio De Seta, Carlo Lizzani, Pietro Germi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Francesco Rosi and others. photo: De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948)

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