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THE GREAT DIRECTORS
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Vittorio De Sica
Actor-turned-neorealist director whose Honorary Oscar for
Sciuscià
(Shoeshine;
1946) spawned the Academy's 'Best Foreign Film' category. Must-see:
Two Women
(1960)
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Roberto Rossellini
Film critic Francois Truffaut called the influential neorealist the 'father of the
French New Wave'. Must-see:
Roma, Città Aperta
(Rome, Open City; 1945)
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Luchino Visconti
Famed for the Oscar-nominated
The Damned
(1969) and the lavish aesthetics of
his films. Must-see:
Death in Venice
(1971)
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Federico Fellini
One of history's most influential and awarded filmmakers, best known for fusing
dreams and reality. Must-see:
8½
(1963)
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Controversial neorealist who championed the damned of postwar Italy. Must-
see:
Mamma Roma
(1962)
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Sergio Leone
King of spaghetti westerns and inventor of the extreme close-up in Westerns. Must-
see:
C'era una volta il West (
Once Upon a Time in the West; 1968)
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Bernardo Bertolucci
His explicit
Last Tango in Paris
(1972) led to the film's ban in Italy, and to a
suspended prison sentence for Bertolucci. Must-see:
The Last Emperor
(1987)