These films show strong affinities with the work of Italian neorealists, not least Roberto Rossellini's neorealist trilogy which included Germany Year Zero ( 1948 ), and are concerned primarily with day-to-day life in the devastated Germany and an initial reaction to the events of the Nazi period ( the full horror of which was first experienced by many in documentary footage from liberated concentration camps ).

An important point to note is that out of Scorsese's selection of Italian films from a select group of directors ( Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Michelangelo Antonioni ) Rossellini's films form at least half of the films discussed and analyzed, highlighting Rossellini's monumental role in Italian and world cinema.

Gaghan has cited as influences on Syriana, European films like Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City, Costa Gavras ' Z, and Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers.

Neorealism exploded soon after the war, with unforgettable works such as Rossellini's trilogy Rome, Open City ( 1945 ), Paisà ( 1946 ), and Germany, Year Zero ( 1948 ), and with extraordinary actors such as Anna Magnani, as an attempt to describe the difficult economic and moral conditions of Italy and the changes in public mentality in everyday life.

Neorealism became famous globally in 1946 with Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City, when it won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival as the first major film produced in Italy after the war.

After World War II and his return to Italy, Pontecorvo made the decision to leave journalism for filmmaking, a move that seems to have been in the making for some time, but was set in motion after he saw Roberto Rossellini's Paisà ( 1946 ).

Rossellini's father built the first cinema in Rome ( Barberini's ), granting his son an unlimited free pass ; the young Rossellini started frequenting the cinema at an early age.

Truffaut noted in his 1963 essay, Roberto Rossellini Prefers Real Life ( available in The Films In My Life ) that Rossellini's influence in France particularly among the directors who would become part of the nouvelle vague was so great that he was in every sense, " the father of the French New Wave ".

His first feature film, La nave bianca ( 1942 ) was sponsored by the audiovisual propaganda centre of Navy Department and is the first work in Rossellini's " Fascist Trilogy ", together with Un pilota ritorna ( 1942 ) and Uomo dalla Croce ( 1943 ).

In 1995, Rossellini worked with the Coty Group and developed her own brand of cosmetics, Isabella Rossellini's Manifesto.

This release never came to fruition as Raro Video's distributor backed out, and the company replaced it with a remastered print of Franco Rossellini's edit.

The film brought international attention to Italian cinema and is considered a quintessential example of neorealism in film, so much so that together with Paisà and Germania anno zero it is called Rossellini's " Neorealist Trilogy.

This episode was also notable for Isabella Rossellini's guest appearance in which she parodies her lookalike mother, Ingrid Bergman, for the first ( and only ) time.

In his documentary, Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, Scorsese noted that the Sicilian episode of Roberto Rossellini's Paisà which he first saw on television alongside his relatives, who were themselves Sicilian immigrants, made a significant impact on his life.

It was eventually pulled out of release in favor of Franco Rossellini's re-edited version, but a briefly released VHS tape exists, though it is now out-of print.

Martin Scorsese has also acknowledged Rossellini's seminal influence in his documentary, My Voyage to Italy ( the title itself a take on Rossellini's Voyage to Italy ).

The case centred on Roberto Rossellini's neorealist short film Il Miracolo ( The Miracle ), which had originally been filmed as a segment of L ' Amore ( Love ) in Italy in 1948.

Rossellini's son Renzo is producing the Audiovisual Encyclopedia of History by Roberto Rossellini, a multi-medial support containing all of Rossellini's works, interviews, and other material from the Rossellini archive.

Bicycle Thieves is the best known neo-realist film ; a movement begun by Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City ( 1945 ), which attempted to give a new degree of realism to cinema.

Certain of Rossellini's film related material and personal papers are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives to which scholars and media experts from around the world may have full access.

Peter Brunette and Marcia Landy both deconstruct the use of reworked cinematic forms in Rossellini's Open City.

Rossellini's modeling career led her into the world of cosmetics, when she became the exclusive spokesmodel for the international cosmetics brand Lancôme in 1982, replacing Nancy Dutiel in the United States and Carol Alt in Europe.

Film distributor Joseph Burstyn released the film in the U. S. in 1950, and the case became known as the " Miracle Decision " due to its connection to Rossellini's film.

* With Rossellini's Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins.

After meeting director Goffredo Alessandrini she received her first screen role in La cieca di Sorrento ( The Blind Woman of Sorrento ) ( 1934 ) and later achieved international fame in Rossellini's Rome, Open City ( 1945 ), considered the first significant movie to launch the Italian neorealism movement in cinema.

Gore Vidal developed a screenplay from Roberto Rossellini's unproduced Caligula television mini-series.

One political prisoner, Padre Pietro Pappagallo, was one of the models for the character of Padre Pietro in Roberto Rossellini's pioneering neo-realist film Rome, Open City, filmed in 1944.

The task of taking the raw material of Marcel Pagnol's original trio of French films about people of the waterfront in Marseilles and putting them again on the screen, after their passage through the Broadway musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, indeed.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.

He has often produced " De Palma " films one after the other before going on to direct a different genre, but would always return to his familiar territory.

Tarantino said-during interview with De Palma, that Blow Out is one of his all time favourite films, and that after watching Scarface he knew how to make his own film.

Following two minor heart attacks he had to undergo an emergency quadruple heart bypass in 1983, after which he was extremely weak, but he still managed to attend a 1988 Congressional hearing with old colleagues such as Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers to protest media magnate Ted Turner's plan to colorize various black-and-white films from the 1930s and 1940s.

According to Brownlow and Gill, Chaplin developed a unique method of filmmaking after achieving independence to direct his own films.

Samson and Delilah, although pre-1950, has been retained by Paramount, as are all the DeMille / Paramount silent films produced before 1928, and all sound films produced after 1950 — television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

Cronenberg has said that his films should be seen " from the point of view of the disease ", and that, for example, he identifies with the characters in Shivers after they become infected with the anarchic parasites.

For scientific purposes, after 1906 Doyen combined 15 of his films into three compilations, two of which survive, the six-film series Extirpation des tumeurs encapsulées ( 1906 ), and the four-film Les Opérations sur la cavité crânienne ( 1911 ).

The Gaiety specialises in musical and operatic productions, and is popular for opening its doors after the evening theatre production to host a variety of live music, dancing, and films.

Most of Vertov's early work was unpublished, and few manuscripts remain after the Second World War, though some material survived in later films and documentaries created by Vertov and his brothers, Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman.

George Lucas commented on the film after its five-hour-long preview, telling Coppola: " You have two films.

Under the terms of the accord, films produced using these funds can only be screened on television 24 months after their theatrical release.

He took up filmmaking in 1896, and after making imitations of other films from Edison, Lumière, and Robert Paul, he made Escamotage d ' un dame chez Robert-Houdin ( The Vanishing Lady ).

More multi-reel films were made in Europe than in the United States after 1906, because the MPPC insisted on working on the basis of one-reel films up until 1912.

The Nordisk company was set up there in 1906 by Ole Olsen, a fairground showman, and after a brief period imitating the successes of French and British film-makers, in 1907 he produced 67 films, most directed by Viggo Larsen, with sensational subjects like Den hvide Slavinde ( The White Slave ), Isbjørnenjagt ( Polar Bear Hunt ) and Løvejagten ( The Lion Hunt ).

Despite the talents involved, it only lasted from 1915 to 1917, after which its separate producers took their films to Paramount for distribution.

Some of their films faced legal challenges in the United Kingdom ; after the Video Recordings Act of 1984, it became a legal offense to sell a copy of such films as Cannibal Holocaust and SS Experiment Camp.

Seijun Suzuki was fired by Nikkatsu for " making films that don't make any sense and don't make any money " after his surrealist yakuza flick Branded to Kill ( 1967 ).

* Japanese Cinema Database, maintained by the Agency for Cultural Affairs ( films after 1896, in Japanese )

* Japanese Film Database, maintained by UniJapan ( in English, films after 2002 )