For the boys Giuseppe and Pasquale, the horse means everything. It means the possession of freedom, of financial possibilities. They could rent the horse to wealthy Romans to buy food and maybe a place to call home. Both are in … Continue reading SHOESHINE
I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap heard ’round the world” wasn’t it—though that cast a pall over the proceedings, didn’t it?—but the … Continue reading Cinema 101
There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren’t. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on. There are two … Continue reading Born On This Day — July 7, 1902
I’ve lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I’m glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief. —Vittorio De Sica Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, March 4, 2013
The camera disappeared, the screen disappeared, it was just life. —Orson Welles on the films of Vittorio De Sica Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, August 24, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 