Video Essay: How Italian Neorealism Brought the Grit of the Streets to the Big Screen

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7 жыл бұрын

This insightful new video essay by Tyler Knudsen (AKA Cinema Tyler) shows how great directors like Visconti, De Sica, and Rossellini ushered in the raw, unfiltered reality of Italian Neorealism. The Italian Neorealist movement was a sister to French New Wave, wherein Italian directors were dealing with the political reality of fascism by showing life as it was lived by ordinary working people. They wanted to show these people grappling with large, sometimes unsolvable problems, sometimes coming from their own lives, and sometimes stemming from larger social structures over which they had no control.

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@goldenbacon1888 Жыл бұрын

I know this is six years old, but this really helped me with one of my film papers and I learned a lot from this KZbin video. Thank you a bunch.

@beausohal3039 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome video man, very helpful. Thank you :) keep up the good work

@snekatamilselvan9460 2 жыл бұрын

i had an exam coming up YOUR VIDEO SAVED ME!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH

@AlexVite17 4 жыл бұрын

great video! I'm very interested in the Italian neorealism movements and the nouvelle vague. Amazing films and great directors. Just one comment: your pronunciation of telefoni bianchi is wrong. The ch in Bianchi is pronounced as Bee-ahn-kee

@themediaclassroom6709 3 жыл бұрын

Such a wonderful video. Thank u very much for all the info you have provided.

@thejquinn 2 жыл бұрын

Hi there, if you love neorealist film, then give my own indie film a chance, and if you have a Letterboxd account feel free to leave it a review/rate. Thanks/Enjoy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eae2paZ4gbhlpM0

@kathhobson5727 7 жыл бұрын

so fantastic!

@gabrielbleuse988 3 жыл бұрын

Luchino is pronounced "Lukino" but great video!!

@thejquinn 2 жыл бұрын

@basilicataexpress 7 жыл бұрын

bicycle thieves ❤️ (ladri di biciclette)

@thejquinn 2 жыл бұрын

@saigokun 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this insightful video. I would like to add that neorealism also influenced a lot of film makers outside Italy, like Alfred Hitchcock whose The Wrong Man (1950) is clearly influenced by it.

@THEDONTTELLSHOW 3 жыл бұрын

Hitchcock was making films before the neorealist though. His influences came from Kammerspielfilm mostly.

@thejquinn 2 жыл бұрын

Hi everyone, if you love neorealist film, then give my own indie film a chance, and if you have a Letterboxd account feel free to leave it a review/rate. Thanks/Enjoy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eae2paZ4gbhlpM0

@hiltongoldsmith8464 7 жыл бұрын

Hey guys, this is unrelated to this video but I was wondering if you guys might be able to do a video on how old school movies made opticals. Fades, titles swipes etc... How they done it in the 30's. I'm guessing they just faded the projector while printing, but that is just a guess. I can't seem to find much content on the subject on you tube. Just an idea. Thanks.

@thejquinn 2 жыл бұрын

Well a fade originally is simply just that, they just faded the last frame of an image and sanded it down slowly going into the next image. On another note, please check out my own neorealist film, thanks :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eae2paZ4gbhlpM0&t

@reelscreenwriting8940 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome :)

@ariesmp 2 жыл бұрын

Google translate has a very good pronunciation feature of Italian words. Could have been used in here.

@user-vp8uw2ot8c Жыл бұрын

thanks

@aouss.altwaijry 4 жыл бұрын

The intro music?

@MagnoliaNoir 7 жыл бұрын

Great essay! Just one question, Mussolini founded the Venice FF, which astonished me, I search for it on the internet, but info is nowhere to be found. They are talking about the Mussolini Cup - the competition of the best foreign film, but that's it. I believe that maybe they try to avoid mention it in history of Venice FF?

@iulianecsulescu6296 7 жыл бұрын

MagnoliaNoir yes the Venice Film Festival was founded by Mussolini to boost the industry wich was strugling because of the Economic Depression. Also they wanted to promote italian cinema to Europe and appear to be a very open and cultural regime

@sirchadiusmaximusiii 10 ай бұрын

The women in the White Telephome films were absolutely stunning.

@malebitsatimbuktu3352 6 жыл бұрын

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@thejquinn 2 жыл бұрын

Hi there if you love neorealist film, then give my own indie film a chance, and if you have a Letterboxd account feel free to leave it a review/rate. Thanks/Enjoy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eae2paZ4gbhlpM0

@selahucla6579 3 ай бұрын

hey guys ı dont wanna go to school to this ı am learnin from the internet you can give me advice about some thing ı need to know about the cinema

@motipic 7 жыл бұрын

greet job

@markwaine2975 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. However, bianchi in Italian is pronounced bee-an-ki. First lesson in Italian pronunciation.

@skeptic2561 2 жыл бұрын

Bicycle thieve's music perfectly suits the video

@JFLOProductions 7 жыл бұрын

Fellini is not considered Italian neorealist? My favorite is La Strada :) it has some fantasy elements to it though...

@heloisef550 7 жыл бұрын

J. Flo Video Productions I think Fellini started off as a neorealist then changed his style, turning to a more fantasmagoric one !

@dyhockane7506 5 жыл бұрын

Fellini it's fellini

@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Fellini cowrote the scripts for Rossellini's Rome Open City and Paisà.

@thejquinn 2 жыл бұрын

I Vitellioni is very neorealist. Secondly, check out my own little indie neorealist film. Thanks :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eae2paZ4gbhlpM0

@mehran7449 7 жыл бұрын

holy fuck can somebody tell what the background music is?

@gambit37 7 жыл бұрын

It's the theme to Bicycle Thieves.

@mya.4344 6 жыл бұрын

can you do ones on third cinema(new and 'new' new ), pre-war Japanese and 5th Gen china film?

@edwinkirkland8856 4 ай бұрын

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@nylehotaling675 2 жыл бұрын

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@mariocovone498 3 жыл бұрын

You can tell that you got your information from Wikipedia. Italian Neorealism didn't peter out in the 50's because Italy was thriving. It was pretty much outlawed in the country. No filmaker could acquire funding for any neorealistic projects. Do some more research. I know this is 'No Film School', but that doesn't give you an excuse to spread false information.

@nicholashodge7361 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly I can't find anything regarding Mussolini's significance to the Venice Film Festival other then his minister or something

@thejquinn 2 жыл бұрын

@sacredlamb3021 7 жыл бұрын

bdw as an Italian "telefoni bianchi" is pronounced "telefoni, bianKI" not CHI

@nicholashodge7361 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think Mussolini founded the Venice Film Festival. I cannot find anything to support that claim.

@thejquinn 2 жыл бұрын

@dyhockane7506 5 жыл бұрын

please the italian correct pronunciation salut from France

@neorock7491 5 ай бұрын

4:41 And Pasolini took that personally. He knew that the struggle of the working class and the poor people of Italy was far from over, and he lamented the way neoliberalism, capitalism and the american soft power "raped" Italy, its culture and its people.