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THE GREAT DIRECTORS
» 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)
» 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)
» Luchino Visconti Famed for the Oscar-nominated The Damned (1969) and the lavish aesthetics of
his films. Must-see: Death in Venice (1971)
» Federico Fellini One of history's most influential and awarded filmmakers, best known for fusing
dreams and reality. Must-see: (1963)
» Pier Paolo Pasolini Controversial neorealist who championed the damned of postwar Italy. Must-
see: Mamma Roma (1962)
» 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)
» 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)
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