Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Pastoral Anniversary Letter

Let's talk about movies?

The Italian film industry was born, among the first in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century and back in ten years established itself as one of the busiest in terms of films produced, period. After an intense season of the silent era, the thirties see the opening of Cinecittà and the international success of the Venice Film Festival . After the war develops the cultural movement of neorealism, which is reflected in the film in the works of Italian directors like Vittorio De Sica , Roberto Rossellini and Luchino Visconti getting major awards at home and abroad. The next generation, that of the auteur, belong Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni , which is flanked by the unique shape and nonconformist Pier Paolo Pasolini .

In the late fifties is also develops the kind of Italian comedy, with characters of satire, with such directors as Pietro Germi , Mario Monicelli, Ettore Scola , Luigi Comencini and Dino Risi . In that vein are connected with the names of the main Italian actors of the period, Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida , Anna Magnani, Claudia Cardinale , Toto, Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman and Alberto Sordi . In

sixties and seventies, at the same time yellow Italian , Another kind was a great success, both nationally and internationally is the " spaghetti westerns", whose main representative was the director Sergio Leone . [178]

the late seventies , with the advent of commercial television , begins the crisis in the film sector is increasing during the first half of the eighties and will last for over a decade .

In subsequent years the importance of Italian cinema is mostly linked to individual or individual film directors and actors, as Ermanno Olmi , Bernardo Bertolucci , Massimo Troisi , Giuseppe Tornatore, Gabriele Salvatores and Roberto Benigni to arrive, in 2008, Matteo Garrone with Gomorrah. In the year 2000

to collect more at the box office are so-called Christmas movie or cine- panettone, [179] characterized by slapstick, often set in exotic locations.

to me, really love the movies! Rosa

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