“Rossellini stands out from the rest of the so-called neorealists for his eye, his intervention as a strong and compassionate witness who knew how to photograph the air around things, and for his disregard of cinema as a spectacle. I took part as a spectator in Paisan and Rome, Open City and I may have learnt my way of approaching cinema from Rossellini, who worked in the most incredible confusion: expiring bills, romantic complications, conflicts, the war. I remember in Naples, during the shooting of Paisan, in the middle of the street, with the allies’ tanks parading behind our backs, and there he was, with his beret and the megaphone: the casualness of a god who’s creating an earthquake only to be able to photograph it. This is the true lesson that neorealism taught me.” — Federico Fellini

Happy Birthday Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977)

Sophia Loren’s lips.

(Source: fellini)

RIP Rossella Falk

fuckyeahfedericofellini:

With Anita Ekberg.

THEATRICAL PLAYDATES for VOYAGE TO ITALY

May 1 - May 9 
New York, NY - Film Forum

May 9
Los Angeles, CA - LACMA

May 17 - 23
Pleasantville, NY - Jacob Burns Film Center

May 31; June 2 - 4; June 6 
Chicago, IL - Gene Siskel Film Center

June 9
San Francisco, CA - The Castro Theatre

June 11 
Cleveland, OH - Cleveland Museum of Art

June 20 & 23
San Rafael, CA - Smith Rafael Film Center

June 22, 24 & 27 
Baltimore, MD - The Charles Theater

August 2 & 3
Columbus, OH - Wexner Center for the Arts

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Lea Massari, Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti on the set of L’avventura (1960)

Source: A certain cinema