Luigi Comencini

• Rediscovering de Sica the Actor

The great Italian actor-director Vittorio De Sica (1902-74) began performing in his teens and emerged as a popular leading man of Italian film comedies in the early 1930s, while simultaneously managing his own theatrical troupe. His film directing career, which began with cautiously commercial subject matter in 1940, is decisively outnumbered by acting vehicles, about 150-25, but a handful of directing credits elevated his reputation in the international critical arena. De Sica and his most influential screenwriting collaborator, Cesare Zavattini, became esteemed heartbreakers after making "Shoeshine" and "Bicycle Thieves" (retitled "The Bicycle Thief" by its American importer) in the aftermath of World War II. The gravity of these movies, set in Rome among ordinary people struggling to...

...CREDITS: Directed by Luigi Comencini, from a screenplay by Mr. Comencini and ...

• The Washington Times
• November 29, 2009

• Seduced and Abandoned.

Video recording review

... Madonna Street, 1958; The Great War, 1959), Luigi Comencini (Notre d'Amore, 1964), and Dino Risi (Th...

• Cineaste
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 3, June 2007

• Screenwriting with your eyes: an interview with Suso Cecchi d'Amico.

... for Renato Castellani, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Zampa, and Alessandro Blasetti. . Bellissima, in 1... films by Michelangelo Antonioni, Luigi Comencini, Mario Monicelli, Francesco Rosi, and Franco Zeffi...

• Cineaste
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 4, September 2002

• Catch word for FIPA means more than 'quality.' (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels)

..., Britain's Harold Pinter, and Italy's Luigi Comencini. Additionally, there was a retrospective...

• Video Age International
• Vol. 13 Nbr. 1, January 1993