September 7th: YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW (Vittorio de Sica, 1964)
NOTE: This film will be projected in the high-definition Blu-ray format.
The lives and struggles of couples in Rome, Milan, and Naples are depicted.
Vittorio de Sica came from an impoverished family in rural, central Italy. After a period of working in the theatre and founding his own company, he moved into filmmaking and became one of the key figures in the Neorealism movement, examining post-war Italy through stories of working class people, often utilizing non-actors.
De Sica quickly became one of the movement's key figures, receiving international attention and acclaim including two honorary Academy Awards in three years for his films Shoeshine (1947) and Bicycle Thieves (1949), leading to the creation of an official Best Foreign Language film category. In the early 1960s, de Sica shifted gears to lighter material with the anthology film Boccaccio '70, also featuring segments directed by his contemporaries Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.
Its follow-up was another multi-part film, this time with de Sica directing all of the episodes. Working with different writers for each, the stories are each set in a different city: Naples, Milan, and Rome, each with their own observations about local lifestyles and attitudes.
In a novel stroke, de Sica enlisted Italy's two most popular actors to play the leads in all three stories, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, both given strikingly different characters in each. The segments were all shot on location by a single cinematographer, Guiseppe Rotunno (All That Jazz, various Fellini films including Amarcord).
The film was a box office success at home and abroad, and won David di Donatello (Italian Academy) awards for Mastroianni and Loren. It also won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film.
Running time is 2 hrs.
The lives and struggles of couples in Rome, Milan, and Naples are depicted.
Vittorio de Sica came from an impoverished family in rural, central Italy. After a period of working in the theatre and founding his own company, he moved into filmmaking and became one of the key figures in the Neorealism movement, examining post-war Italy through stories of working class people, often utilizing non-actors.
De Sica quickly became one of the movement's key figures, receiving international attention and acclaim including two honorary Academy Awards in three years for his films Shoeshine (1947) and Bicycle Thieves (1949), leading to the creation of an official Best Foreign Language film category. In the early 1960s, de Sica shifted gears to lighter material with the anthology film Boccaccio '70, also featuring segments directed by his contemporaries Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.
Its follow-up was another multi-part film, this time with de Sica directing all of the episodes. Working with different writers for each, the stories are each set in a different city: Naples, Milan, and Rome, each with their own observations about local lifestyles and attitudes.
In a novel stroke, de Sica enlisted Italy's two most popular actors to play the leads in all three stories, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, both given strikingly different characters in each. The segments were all shot on location by a single cinematographer, Guiseppe Rotunno (All That Jazz, various Fellini films including Amarcord).
The film was a box office success at home and abroad, and won David di Donatello (Italian Academy) awards for Mastroianni and Loren. It also won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film.
Running time is 2 hrs.
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