Communist Sentimental
Vittorio de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 film Bicycle Thieves is hard to watch but easy to rewatch.(...)
Vittorio de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 film Bicycle Thieves is hard to watch but easy to rewatch.(...)
Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites
My introduction to Dialogues des Carmelites was profoundly significant and personal.(...)
Germany, Year Zero, Today
It’s hard to watch Roberto Rossellini’s 1948 film Germany, Year Zero to its conclusion. The mood is relentlessly bleak and the landscape bleaker still.(...)
400 Blows After Netflix
François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is one of cinema’s all-time classics, the 1959 film that demonstrated how deftly a new generation of French critics could transform themselves into the filmmakers of la nouvelle vague.(...)
The Rebirth of Italian Communism, by David Broder
Italy occupies a peculiar place in the history of the left.(...)
Enter the Sardines
"I thought this was supposed to be a movement of young people? Everyone's our age, even older. So far."(...)