The 1946 film from Italian neorealist Vittorio de Sica was awarded a special foreign-language Oscar in 1948. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer The screenplay was written by De Sica contemporary Cesare ...
Vittorio de Sica’s 1946 production gave neorealism its first popular success, though today—now that we’re used to seeing dramas filmed in the streets—it’s hard to locate what’s “realistic” about it.
“What [Vittorio] De Sica can do, I can’t do …,” Orson Welles averred after watching “Shoeshine” (1946): “the camera disappeared, the screen disappeared; it was just life.” What Welles couldn’t do, in ...
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