JANUARY 23

Film:
Bicycle Thieves (DeSica 1948) DVD 4300

excerpts:
Open City (Rossellini 1945) DVD 2658 – 46:40 to 57:00
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett 1946) DVD 4235 – 1:19 to 5:54
Ossesione (Visconti 1943) DVD 527 – 1:29 to 8:20
Umberto D (DeSica 1952) DVD 2661 – 30:40 to 35:36

Reading (to be done by January 29):

Cesare Zavattini - "Some Ideas on the Cinema"
Amédée Ayfe, “Neo-Realism and Phenomonology,” both in course reader.

Assignment for the week. Graduates, please email essay to me at elkrugamigos@earthlink.net; undergraduates, please bring a printed copy to class:

Imagine one of your favorite narrative films as a neo-realist film. How does it change the look and the story, the texture and the editing of the film? Be specific, and root your discussion in just one short scene, which you describe in detail.