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ian stage performer Leopoldo Fregoli, the greatest and most versatile quick-change artist of his day, famous for his extraordinary impersonations and rapid change of roles. Fregoli, the artist as a protean being, dashing on and off stage, resonates with the ebullient artistic temperament of Zavattini. In the space of a few years dur-
“The caffettieri [baristas] do not have a home even when they have one, one even eats among clients, cohabitants,” Zavattini will reminisce years later in Going Back. The open space of the café, where the whole community comes and goes as in a seaport, where words flow with the coffee and liquors, where stories are heard and told, is a space of meeting and listening which profoundly ...
Abstract. This chapter examines the Italian cinema contexts for Cesare Zavattini’s radical reconception of the notion of the nonprofessional actor—that everyone acts his or her life on camera—during the waning of neorealism.
Peripheral in production origin and exhibition outlets, variable in length, and armed with guerrilla-like poetic ambitions, Zavattini’s cinegiornali liberi were meant to reshufle the public discourse on culture and the public interest. 11 See Zavattini’s “Film-lampo: Sviluppo del neorealismo” (1952) and “Che cos’é il film lampo” (1953), now in Opere, 711–713 and 708–710. 12 ...
Apr 25, 2024 · Zavattini, the pre-eminent theorist of neorealism, was often called upon to justify his and De Sica’s apparent non-spectacle, the mundanity of their films. Their loose, episodic approach to narrative seemed to be the antithesis of tightly constructed, neatly resolved Hollywood narratives – but real life, they claimed, was not like that.
Oct 20, 2020 · Introduction. Cesare Zavattini crossed the entire history of Italian sound cinema, from the 1930s until his death in 1989. If one can conceive of an Italian ‘independent-auteur cinema’, that is, a cinema capable of relating to experimentalism, attempting to free itself from traditional production modes and, at the same time, renewing the authors’ intellectual rapport with their audience ...
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Sep 22, 2020 · Zavattini and De Sica developed Bicycle Thieves out of—as Zavattini put it—”a little news item . . . considered by most people throwaway material.” 6 That news item became the story of a ...
