Italian Neorealism

I was going to make the list much longer but haven’t gotten around to finishing it yet. I will lengthen it soon, but you can feel free to add whatever you want, too. You seem to know what you are talking about.

I’m going to put some Fellini and Antonioni films on here too. Some of their films may bot be strictly Neorealist but they’re a huge part of Italy’s post-war cinema and if you dig Neorealism you’d probably dig them, too.

good additions.

I think genreally people agree that Osessione started it all, but some people think that it ended with Umberto D, which was I think in 1952, but Rocco and his brothers was in 1960. Generally I think all the ‘40s and ‘50s movies are fair game. I even put a couple from the early 60s.

I’m going to put some Fellini on here, going up to 8 1/2, because even though some of his stuff is more dream-like and fantastic than realistic, it was made in the era of neorealism and in my opinion it’s part of the neorealist world. I want to put Antonioni’s stuff up to The Eclipse for the same reason.

So, even though the list is called “Italian Neorealism” some of it isn’t in the genre at all – but don’t we define genres partly by what comes before and after, and partly by reactions against them and what the movement’s contemporaries were doing?

Add as many more as you want, and feel free to rearange the order, too, if you want. It’s a public list so go to town on it.

And, if you’re tired of long, serious diatribes on film, check out some of the crappier lists I’ve made, like Planet of the Apes and Leprechaun. :)