Podcasts about Neorealism

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On Episode 136 of Floating Through Film, we begin our new series picked by Dany, Roberto Rossellini! Dany starts the episode with a discussion on what the term "Neorealism" could possibly mean (3:47), before reviewing two of the three movies from his "War Trilogy", 1946's Paisan (39:48), and 1948's Germany, Year Zero (1:59:49) Episode Next Week: Europe 51 + Voyage in Italy Music: - Intro: from Early Summer - Break: Germany, Year Zero - Outro: Paisan Hosts: Luke Seay (LB: https://letterboxd.com/seayluke/, Twitter: https://x.com/luke67s) Blake Tourville (LB: https://letterboxd.com/blaketourville/, Twitter: https://x.com/vladethepoker) Dany Joshuva (LB: https://letterboxd.com/djoshuva/, Twitter: https://x.com/grindingthefilm) Podcast Links (Spotify and Apple): https://linktr.ee/floatingthroughfilm Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/floatingfilm/ Email: floatingthroughfilm@gmail.com

On this episode of the podcast, host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by Professor Catherine O'Rawe. Catherine is Professor of Italian Film and Culture at the University of Bristol. Her books include Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema (2014).Catherine discusses her latest monograph The Non-Professional Actor: Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond (2023) where she provides detailed, engaging analysis of the role and function of the non-professional actor both during and after the neorealist era.

Part I of my two-part conversation with Jonathan Kirshner about his new book, An Unwritten Future: Realism, Uncertainty, and World Politics. Kirshner explains why classical realism is a misunderstood intellectual tradition. We get into: Why realism recruits dead people into their intellectual tradition; what we can learn from Thucydides, and why an armchair understanding of the Peloponnesian War does more harm than good; why realist pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy; why international relations has somewhat lost its way; how we should think about the “national interest"; and distinctions between realist and progressive political economy.Subscribe to the Un-Diplomatic Newsletter: https://www.un-diplomatic.com

Van's interview with Dr. Matthew Specter discusses his new book, The Atlantic Realists. They get into the diverse understandings of the realist tradition, trace its roots to imperial competition in the 19th century, the bizzare intellectual inspirations the Nazis found in US history, whether realism is useful for progressives and the left, and some surprising history about a cast of characters ranging from Hans Morgenthau to Alfred Thayer Mahan to Carl Schmitt. Buy the Book: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28906 Un-Diplomatic Newsletter: https://www.un-diplomatic.com Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/undiplomatic

A film where a man must try and find his stolen bicycle, along with his son. Kyle would also volunteer his bedsheets. Dave wants to eat a big plate of spaghetti. The Machine tries to figure out where the HDMI port is. You can follow us on Letterboxd to see the entire list of movies we've talked about: https://letterboxd.com/kdvstm/Watch the trailer for Bicycle Thieves here: https://youtu.be/H2P4xo9kmPMOur sponsors this week are:  Taproot Publishing - https://taprootpublishing.ca/spotlight - a service that helps businesses and organizations pay attention to the people they serve. Alberta Podcast Network - https://www.albertapodcastnetwork.com - The Network promotes and supports Alberta-made podcasts, and connects their audiences with Alberta-based businesses and organizations.The podcast featured this week was Quantum Kickflip - https://www.quantumkickflip.com/ - A Slugblaster actual play podcast, hosted by The Debutantes. Send feedback to kyleanddavevsthemachine@gmail.comKyle and Dave vs The Machine is a proud member of The Alberta Podcast Network: Locally grown. Community supported. Here's their link again: https://www.albertapodcastnetwork.comKeep up to date with Kyle and Dave vs The Machine by following its social media channels: Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdvstmInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kdvstm/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEZKUfH0IOp-lH5OQdIpvLwPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/kdvstmThis week the Machine printed out: 01010100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100111 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100011 01110101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100101 01111000 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 00101110  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AI Neorealism: a threat model & success criterion for existential safety, published by davidad (David A. Dalrymple) on December 15, 2022 on The AI Alignment Forum. Threat Model There are many ways for AI systems to cause a catastrophe from which Earth-originating life could never recover. All of the following seem plausible to me: Misuse: An AI system could help a human or group of humans to destroy or to permanently take over (and lock their values into) the world. The AI could be: An oracle AI (e.g. a question-answering LLM) An LLM simulating an intent-aligned agent and taking real-world actions via APIs An intent-aligned RL agent An interaction of multiple systems Power-Seeking: An AI system could destroy or permanently take over the world on its own account, by leveraging advanced instruments of force projection. The AI could be: An LLM simulating a misaligned agent "Specification gaming": An RL agent that is aligned to a formal objective and Goodharts to catastrophe "Goal misgeneralization": A surprise mesa-optimiser (most likely in model-free RL, but could conceivably arise through evolutionary processes in any iterative algorithm which has or learns sufficiently reality-like structure) An interaction of multiple systems, participating in coordination mechanisms that exclude humans Economic Squeeze: an AI system could acquire nearly all means of production through a gradual process of individually innocent economic transactions, thereby squeezing humanity out of resource allocation decisions and removing most human influence over the future. This would most likely be an "interaction of multiple systems". A single RL agent, or a unipolar tree of agents, might also do this, especially if they are successfully aligned to avoid use of force against humans. Superpersuasion: an AI system could generate stimuli which reliably cause humans to adopt its arbitrary goals. The AI could be: An LLM merely extrapolating from persuasive human text An RL agent trained on human approval A surprise mesa-optimiser Some mixture of the above Many AIs, collectively shaping a new human culture with an alien ideology Security Dilemma: If AI-enabled technological advancements turn out to be offence-dominant, and if partial alignment success leads AIs to be unable to make credible commitments to each other (e.g. due to corrigibility), the equilibrium strategy for AI-enabled militaries may involve high-risk preemptive strikes and increasingly escalated retaliation to a point of existential catastrophe. This would almost surely be a multipolar failure mode. But, instead of trying to enumerate all possible failure modes and then trying to shape incentives to make them less likely to come up, I typically use a quasi-worst-case assumption in which I assume that, perhaps as a matter of bad luck with random initialisation, Unlike a typical understanding of a "worst-case assumption," the last clause leaves open the possibility of hiding concrete facts about our world from an arbitrarily powerful model, and the framing in terms of functions highlights an ontology of AI that respects extensional equivalence, where imputations of "deceptive mesa-optimisers hiding inside" are discarded in favour of "capable but misaligned outputs on out-of-distribution inputs". On the other hand, unlike a typical "prosaic" threat model, in the neorealist threat model one does not rely on empirical facts about the inductive biases of the kind of network architectures that are practically successful. A realist justification for this is that there may be a phase transition as architectures scale up which drastically changes both their capabilities profile and this kind of inductive bias (vaguely analogous to the evolution of cultural knowledge-transfer within biological life). One can make progress with this assumption...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AI Neorealism: a threat model & success criterion for existential safety, published by davidad (David A. Dalrymple) on December 15, 2022 on The AI Alignment Forum. Threat Model There are many ways for AI systems to cause a catastrophe from which Earth-originating life could never recover. All of the following seem plausible to me: Misuse: An AI system could help a human or group of humans to destroy or to permanently take over (and lock their values into) the world. The AI could be: An oracle AI (e.g. a question-answering LLM) An LLM simulating an intent-aligned agent and taking real-world actions via APIs An intent-aligned RL agent An interaction of multiple systems Power-Seeking: An AI system could destroy or permanently take over the world on its own account, by leveraging advanced instruments of force projection. The AI could be: An LLM simulating a misaligned agent "Specification gaming": An RL agent that is aligned to a formal objective and Goodharts to catastrophe "Goal misgeneralization": A surprise mesa-optimiser (most likely in model-free RL, but could conceivably arise through evolutionary processes in any iterative algorithm which has or learns sufficiently reality-like structure) An interaction of multiple systems, participating in coordination mechanisms that exclude humans Economic Squeeze: an AI system could acquire nearly all means of production through a gradual process of individually innocent economic transactions, thereby squeezing humanity out of resource allocation decisions and removing most human influence over the future. This would most likely be an "interaction of multiple systems". A single RL agent, or a unipolar tree of agents, might also do this, especially if they are successfully aligned to avoid use of force against humans. Superpersuasion: an AI system could generate stimuli which reliably cause humans to adopt its arbitrary goals. The AI could be: An LLM merely extrapolating from persuasive human text An RL agent trained on human approval A surprise mesa-optimiser Some mixture of the above Many AIs, collectively shaping a new human culture with an alien ideology Security Dilemma: If AI-enabled technological advancements turn out to be offence-dominant, and if partial alignment success leads AIs to be unable to make credible commitments to each other (e.g. due to corrigibility), the equilibrium strategy for AI-enabled militaries may involve high-risk preemptive strikes and increasingly escalated retaliation to a point of existential catastrophe. This would almost surely be a multipolar failure mode. But, instead of trying to enumerate all possible failure modes and then trying to shape incentives to make them less likely to come up, I typically use a quasi-worst-case assumption in which I assume that, perhaps as a matter of bad luck with random initialisation, Unlike a typical understanding of a "worst-case assumption," the last clause leaves open the possibility of hiding concrete facts about our world from an arbitrarily powerful model, and the framing in terms of functions highlights an ontology of AI that respects extensional equivalence, where imputations of "deceptive mesa-optimisers hiding inside" are discarded in favour of "capable but misaligned outputs on out-of-distribution inputs". On the other hand, unlike a typical "prosaic" threat model, in the neorealist threat model one does not rely on empirical facts about the inductive biases of the kind of network architectures that are practically successful. A realist justification for this is that there may be a phase transition as architectures scale up which drastically changes both their capabilities profile and this kind of inductive bias (vaguely analogous to the evolution of cultural knowledge-transfer within biological life). One can make progress with this assumption...

After a week-long break, the BOLG Boys are back in hot doggin form, discussing trans Joe Biden rescuing his deceased son from his own ass with his own penis, voting patterns being completely out of whack in the recent Ontario election, and cowardly police failing to fulfill their sole remaining duty of being Eugenics Agents. They then discuss the book "The End of History and the Last Man" by Francis Fukuyama, specifically the philosophical foundation of modern liberalism, and thymos (the desire to be recognized) being hijacked by capitalistic democracy. Lastly, Dimes interviews geopolitical influencer and bigwig The Prudentialist on the recent Munk debate between the avatars of Neorealism and Liberal Democracy, and many other topics as these titans have a whale of a time. Music from James Peers: https://bit.ly/3mhsANP

Federico Fellini's "8½" is the perfect film that was requested by Luis from the suggestions that I have offered to anyone who listens to this podcast. To briefly describe it here, I enjoyed the film very much to the point where I call it "the perfect film". I could have said so much about the film that I forgot to talk about my favorite shot about the film. There's so much to learn about live and this film delivers it in a way no one could have thought of especially during the early '60s in the Italian film industry. I briefly talk about how we can all relate to the story of the film, especially our own arrogance to just life without fear. The visuals and flashbacks play a lot on the character and the way Fellini gives us wild moments to look and swallow, the writing and the actors speak for themselves. Brilliant.

Divorce was illegal in Italy until 1974. In DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE when a Sicilian aristocrat becomes unhappy with his wife, he tries to trick her into having an affair so he can catch her in the act, then kill her. Because obviously murdering your wife is far less immoral than allowing women to leave their marriages. Theme Music "A Movie I'd Like to See" by Al Harley. Follow the Show @freshmoviepod YouTube Channel Email abreathoffreshmovie@gmail.com

After a long break, we return to our Director Series on Mysskin. In this episode we talk about Mysskin's 2014 film Pisaasu starring Naga, Prayaga Martin, Radha Ravi et al. The film broadly falls under the horror genre but with its filmmaking and inherent philosophy subverts the genre in many different ways. Add to this, Mysskin's next film is a sequel to Pisaasu starring Andrea. To talk about the film Aditya is joined by two distinguished guests. Sudhir Srinivasan returns to our podcast to talk about his favorite Mysskin film. Sudhir is a film critic and editor of Cinema Express. He had earlier joined us to talk about Aayirathil Oruvan Amrutha is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Film and Digital Media Studies at the Department of English Language and Literature at Wofford College. She obtained her doctoral degree from Department of English at MSU last year, with her dissertation on 'Situating Tamil Cinema'. Her PhD advisor was Dr. Swarnavel Eswaran who is a friend of the podcast and joined us for an episode to talk about Andha Naal. Edited by Aditya and Anantha. References: Amrutha quotes from Kogonada's 2013 video on Neorealism in the podcast. We recommend Kogonada's Columbus and he also has a film coming up in March 2022 - After Yang. Previous episodes on Mysskin series: Onaayum Aattukkuttiyum. Yuddham Sei.

We're reviewing De Sica's 1948 neo-realist film Bicycle Thieves.

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A conversation with Charles Leavitt IV, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame* Neorealism as a shared cultural discourse and a multidisciplinary aesthetics* Post-war reconstruction as a time of collaborative imagination and innovation* Cinematographic production, the economic boom & the emergence of Italian design* The impact of Italian neorealism on contemporary cinemaPlease visit the official webpage www.italianinnovators.com for more information about the project or subscribe to the YouTube channel for more video content.

In Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Charles Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice. Which realisms are being invoked under the category of “Neorealism” as it was plied and applied in the mid-20th Century? What were the aims of these realisms? What did they accomplish? Each of Italian Neorealism’s four chapters sketches answers to these questions by approaching a corpus that interweaves some very well-known texts from Italian Neorealism (Rome, Open City, Bicycle Thieves, La terra trema, etc.) with texts that have enjoyed scantier critical attention (like films from the period that have not widely circulated, for example) or which hail from extra-cinematic and even extra-Italian contexts. The result is an eminently readable study whose broad embrace does not sacrifice meticulous attention to detail. Ellen Nerenberg is a founding editor of g/s/i-gender/sexuality/Italy and reviews editor of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Recent scholarly essays focus on serial television in Italy, the UK, and North America; masculinities in Italian cinema and media studies; and student filmmakers. Her current book project is La nazione Winx: coltivare la futura consumista/Winx Nation: Grooming the Future Female Consumer, a collaboration with Nicoletta Marini-Maio (forthcoming, Rubbettino Editore, 2020). She is President of the American Association for Italian Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Charles Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice. Which realisms are being invoked under the category of “Neorealism” as it was plied and applied in the mid-20th Century? What were the aims of these realisms? What did they accomplish? Each of Italian Neorealism’s four chapters sketches answers to these questions by approaching a corpus that interweaves some very well-known texts from Italian Neorealism (Rome, Open City, Bicycle Thieves, La terra trema, etc.) with texts that have enjoyed scantier critical attention (like films from the period that have not widely circulated, for example) or which hail from extra-cinematic and even extra-Italian contexts. The result is an eminently readable study whose broad embrace does not sacrifice meticulous attention to detail. Ellen Nerenberg is a founding editor of g/s/i-gender/sexuality/Italy and reviews editor of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Recent scholarly essays focus on serial television in Italy, the UK, and North America; masculinities in Italian cinema and media studies; and student filmmakers. Her current book project is La nazione Winx: coltivare la futura consumista/Winx Nation: Grooming the Future Female Consumer, a collaboration with Nicoletta Marini-Maio (forthcoming, Rubbettino Editore, 2020). She is President of the American Association for Italian Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Charles Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice. Which realisms are being invoked under the category of “Neorealism” as it was plied and applied in the mid-20th Century? What were the aims of these realisms? What did they accomplish? Each of Italian Neorealism’s four chapters sketches answers to these questions by approaching a corpus that interweaves some very well-known texts from Italian Neorealism (Rome, Open City, Bicycle Thieves, La terra trema, etc.) with texts that have enjoyed scantier critical attention (like films from the period that have not widely circulated, for example) or which hail from extra-cinematic and even extra-Italian contexts. The result is an eminently readable study whose broad embrace does not sacrifice meticulous attention to detail. Ellen Nerenberg is a founding editor of g/s/i-gender/sexuality/Italy and reviews editor of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Recent scholarly essays focus on serial television in Italy, the UK, and North America; masculinities in Italian cinema and media studies; and student filmmakers. Her current book project is La nazione Winx: coltivare la futura consumista/Winx Nation: Grooming the Future Female Consumer, a collaboration with Nicoletta Marini-Maio (forthcoming, Rubbettino Editore, 2020). She is President of the American Association for Italian Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Charles Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice. Which realisms are being invoked under the category of “Neorealism” as it was plied and applied in the mid-20th Century? What were the aims of these realisms? What did they accomplish? Each of Italian Neorealism’s four chapters sketches answers to these questions by approaching a corpus that interweaves some very well-known texts from Italian Neorealism (Rome, Open City, Bicycle Thieves, La terra trema, etc.) with texts that have enjoyed scantier critical attention (like films from the period that have not widely circulated, for example) or which hail from extra-cinematic and even extra-Italian contexts. The result is an eminently readable study whose broad embrace does not sacrifice meticulous attention to detail. Ellen Nerenberg is a founding editor of g/s/i-gender/sexuality/Italy and reviews editor of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Recent scholarly essays focus on serial television in Italy, the UK, and North America; masculinities in Italian cinema and media studies; and student filmmakers. Her current book project is La nazione Winx: coltivare la futura consumista/Winx Nation: Grooming the Future Female Consumer, a collaboration with Nicoletta Marini-Maio (forthcoming, Rubbettino Editore, 2020). She is President of the American Association for Italian Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Charles Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice. Which realisms are being invoked under the category of “Neorealism” as it was plied and applied in the mid-20th Century? What were the aims of these realisms? What did they accomplish? Each of Italian Neorealism’s four chapters sketches answers to these questions by approaching a corpus that interweaves some very well-known texts from Italian Neorealism (Rome, Open City, Bicycle Thieves, La terra trema, etc.) with texts that have enjoyed scantier critical attention (like films from the period that have not widely circulated, for example) or which hail from extra-cinematic and even extra-Italian contexts. The result is an eminently readable study whose broad embrace does not sacrifice meticulous attention to detail. Ellen Nerenberg is a founding editor of g/s/i-gender/sexuality/Italy and reviews editor of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Recent scholarly essays focus on serial television in Italy, the UK, and North America; masculinities in Italian cinema and media studies; and student filmmakers. Her current book project is La nazione Winx: coltivare la futura consumista/Winx Nation: Grooming the Future Female Consumer, a collaboration with Nicoletta Marini-Maio (forthcoming, Rubbettino Editore, 2020). She is President of the American Association for Italian Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Charles Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice. Which realisms are being invoked under the category of “Neorealism” as it was plied and applied in the mid-20th Century? What were the aims of these realisms? What did they accomplish? Each of Italian Neorealism’s four chapters sketches answers to these questions by approaching a corpus that interweaves some very well-known texts from Italian Neorealism (Rome, Open City, Bicycle Thieves, La terra trema, etc.) with texts that have enjoyed scantier critical attention (like films from the period that have not widely circulated, for example) or which hail from extra-cinematic and even extra-Italian contexts. The result is an eminently readable study whose broad embrace does not sacrifice meticulous attention to detail. Ellen Nerenberg is a founding editor of g/s/i-gender/sexuality/Italy and reviews editor of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Recent scholarly essays focus on serial television in Italy, the UK, and North America; masculinities in Italian cinema and media studies; and student filmmakers. Her current book project is La nazione Winx: coltivare la futura consumista/Winx Nation: Grooming the Future Female Consumer, a collaboration with Nicoletta Marini-Maio (forthcoming, Rubbettino Editore, 2020). She is President of the American Association for Italian Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Charles Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice. Which realisms are being invoked under the category of “Neorealism” as it was plied and applied in the mid-20th Century? What were the aims of these realisms? What did they accomplish? Each of Italian Neorealism’s four chapters sketches answers to these questions by approaching a corpus that interweaves some very well-known texts from Italian Neorealism (Rome, Open City, Bicycle Thieves, La terra trema, etc.) with texts that have enjoyed scantier critical attention (like films from the period that have not widely circulated, for example) or which hail from extra-cinematic and even extra-Italian contexts. The result is an eminently readable study whose broad embrace does not sacrifice meticulous attention to detail. Ellen Nerenberg is a founding editor of g/s/i-gender/sexuality/Italy and reviews editor of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. Recent scholarly essays focus on serial television in Italy, the UK, and North America; masculinities in Italian cinema and media studies; and student filmmakers. Her current book project is La nazione Winx: coltivare la futura consumista/Winx Nation: Grooming the Future Female Consumer, a collaboration with Nicoletta Marini-Maio (forthcoming, Rubbettino Editore, 2020). She is President of the American Association for Italian Studies.

  Charm City Kings director Angel Manuel Soto talks about being a cinephile and bringing a balance of neorealism/verite filmmaking with cinematic storytelling. I absolutely love this film and would love to hear your thoughts on Charm City Kings. It hits HBO MAX on October 8. My full Zoom video interview w/ Soto is up […]

Isabella Rossellini joins Paul Holdengräber on episode 083 of The Quarantine Tapes to chat chickens, film, and Darwin. Isabella tells Paul about spending these past few months at home at her farm in Long Island since quarantine forced her to take a break from her usual nomadic lifestyle. Then, they chat about Isabella’s participation in the Onassis Foundation’s ENTER project and her enjoyment of the art of make-do. In this episode, Isabella celebrates nature, creativity, and being free to do what you always wanted to do as a child in a conversation that ranges from discussing the personalities of chickens to determining what Isabella would ask Darwin if she were given the chance.Isabella Rossellini grew up in Paris and Rome. When she was 19, she moved to New York City, working as a translator and journalist for RAI-Italian Television.  She began a modeling career at the relatively advanced age of 28, appearing on numerous covers of magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and Vanity Fair. An enduring style icon, Ms. Rossellini began a 14-year run in 1982 as the exclusive spokesperson for Lancome. When she turned 40 years old, an age considered too advanced to represent the beauty industry, her contract was not renewed . Isabella launched her own cosmetics brand Manifesto but  in 2016 Lancome hired her again  as a  spokesperson with the specific intent to promote inclusiveness and  fight against "ageism”. Ms. Rossellini made her cinematic debut as an actress in 1979 in the Taviani brothers’ film Il Prato (The Meadow) and has appeared in numerous other films, including the American features Blue Velvet, White Nights, Rodger Dodger, Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Fearless, Big Night and more recently in  Joy . She worked with many different directors - Taviani brothers, Saverio Costanzo,  Robert Zemeckis, David O. Russell.  David Lynch, Robert Wilson.  Taylor Hackford, Marjane  Satrapi  and Guy Maddin. She is also a successful television actress and filmmaker, with a keen interest in animals and wildlife conservation. Her award-winning series of shorts, Green Porno,  Seduce Me and Mammas offers comical and scientifically insightful studies of animal behaviors. She toured in 50 different cities with a monologue based on her shorts written with Academy Award  winner Jean Claude Carriere. Recently she toured her new theatrical show, Link Link Circus that deals with animal behavior and cognition. Isabella has a master degree on Animal behavior and Conservation from Hunter college in NY and obtained a PhD honoris causa  from the  Science faculty at UQAM ( University of Quebec at Montreal)Isabella also runs an organic farm in Brookhaven in association with the Peconic Land Trust. Her book about raising heritage chickens entitled My Chickens and I  is published in the USA  by ABRAMS BOOKS.Ms. Rossellini’s other philanthropic interests  embrace preservation of her family’s extraordinary cinematic heritage, including the films directed by her father, Roberto Rossellini and those featuring her mother, Ingrid Bergman.Ms. Rossellini is a mother of two and resides in Bellport, Long Island.

A lecture by Renée Tobe (BSR; East London). British filmmaker Peter Greenaway came to Rome on a visit, suffered from indigestion and devised his plot for Belly of an Architect (1987) in which an American (in the style of Henry James) visits Rome in order to prepare an exhibition of the works of neoclassical architect Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799) in the Monument Vittorio Emanuele II. Rome in film manifests itself according to the specific filmmaker's perspective and there are different kinds of Roman films. While Italian neorealist films strove to cultivate the opposite of the monumentality of Rome, the ‘English abroad' celebrates the place and position of temples, monuments and civic buildings. The monuments in the film are deliberately framed like postcards. Central to a discussion of imperialist politics lies a nostalgia for Rome's glorious past.

Does anyone want a podcast about famous directors' Instagram feeds? While we workshop that, there's a lot to get through this week, not least a review of Federico Fellini's landmark film La Strada. Where does it end up in our Fellini power rankings? After a Question of the Week about road movies, we've got a triple-bill of new streaming releases. Sarah reviews Marjane Satrapi's biopic of Marie Curie - Radioactive - while Graham has probably the least stressful time of the week with Curzon's new Italian comedy Citizens of the World. No such luck for Rob, who has a harrowing, politically-charged trip to Vietnam with Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods. Next week: wasps! If you like the podcast, send some support by visiting ourPATREON (http://www%2Cpatreon.com/thegeekshow) . Alternatively, give us a 5-star rating and/or review wherever you get your podcasts from, it helps other people find our podcast. The more feedback we have, the more people can enjoy our movie chatter.thegeekshow.co.uk (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/) #cinemaeclectica #moviereviews #spikelee #marjanesatrapi #federicofellini #giannidigregorio #lastrada #anthonyquinn #neorealism #da5bloods #vietnam #delroylindo #chadwickboseman #rosamundpike #samriley #mariecurie #simonrussellbeale #anyataylorjoy #citizensoftheworld #radioactive #netflix #curzon

Vittorio De Sica’s groundbreaking 1946 film about the tribulations of two Italian street kids was one of the founding documents…

This week, we watch the Italian Neorealism film classic that is named by many to be the single greatest film ever made. We don’t get it. Bicycle Thieves (1948), directed by Vittorio De Sica.

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This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… Bicycle Thieves (1948) 6.7.19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx Commentary track begins at 18:20 — Notes — We watched the Criterion Collection release of Bicycle Thieves for the show this week. It’s a wonderful release full of bonus features and essays and the bluray looks incredible. Bicycle Thieves is also available on The Criterion Channel. ‘Bicycle Thieves: Ode to the Common Man’ by Charles Burnett for The Current — Here’s a link to an insightful essay on Bicycle Thieves from filmmaker Charles Burnett. This essay was included in the original CC DVD release of Bicycle Thieves, but was cut from the Bluray. ‘Bicycle Thieves: A Passionate Commitment to the Real’ by Godfrey Cheshire from The Current — Here’s another essay that accompanies the Criterion Collection release of the film. Bicycle Thieves by Robert S.C. Gordon — Here’s the BFI film classics book on Bicycle Thieves, and it’s as informative and intelligent as you’d expect. Highly recommend for anyone looking for a primer on this monolithic film. André Bazin and Italian Neorealism by André Bazin — Here’s a link to a collection of André Bazin’s writing on Neorealism. Bazin produced some fantastic writing on film and his thoughts on the neorealist movement are not to be missed. Vittorio De Sica: Contemporary Perspectives edited by Howard Curle and Stephen Snyder — Here’s a wonderful collection of essays that cover Vittorio De Sica’s entire career, not merely limiting itself to his path as a director but also dedicating space to examine his acting career. Highly recommended. A History of Italian Cinema by Peter Bondanella — This book is a wonderful tour of the progression of Italian cinema throughout the 20th century. It works as both an introduction and re-examination, and anyone looking to learn more about Italian cinema will enjoying starting with this book.

In this edition of Make/Remake Dakota and Stephanie look at a unique pair of films… the exact same film cut two ways. In 1953 Italian Neorealist director Vittorio de Dica paired with David O. Selznick to make an American film his way. He cast American actors Montgomery Clift and Jennifer Jones and plopped them in Rome to tell the story of an American wife having an affair while in Europe and deciding she wants to go back home to her family. Despite wanting to produce a Neorealist film, Selznick eventually became bored with the concept and cut out all the moments that make a trademark de Sica film so memorable. The result was two different version of the same film. Terminal Station, the original cut is 90 minutes long and is more nuanced compared to Indiscretion of an American Wife, which clocks in at only 60 minutes. The topic for this episode was inspired by filmmaker Kogonada’s video essay “What is Neorealism?”showing the major differences between the two films and a bit of history of the project. You can watch both versions of the film in full on Youtube. Terminal Station – the full ninety-minute version Indiscretion of an American Wife – abridged sixty-minute version Something new I’ll be asking people to do is to rate and review Contra Zoom on Podchaser, a site that aims to be the IMDb of podcasts. Please rate 5 stars and if possible leave a short review to help grow this show. Follow the show @ContraZoomPod and Dakota @Dgapa on Twitter. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/contrazoompod/message

Neo-Realism: From De Sica to Cuarón Bicycle Thieves & Roma  On this week's episode of WatchThis W/RickRamos Ibrahim & I sit down to talk two of the most widely recognized works in Neo-Realism: Vittorio De Sica's 1948 masterpiece Bicycle Thieves (sometimes known as The Bicycle Thief) and Alfonso Cuarón's current critical hit (nominated for 10 Academy Awards) Roma. We discuss the importance, merits, and differences between both films. We argue, coming to agreement on some points and reaffirming our beliefs in other respects. An interesting conversation tackling controversial and polarizing issues, this is easily one of our best episodes in quite some time. Questions, Comments, Complaints, & Suggestions can be directed to gondoramos@yahoo.com. As always, thanks for the continued love and support. 

We're talking Italian Neorealism with special guest Nate Sawtell so we're pitching some Neorealist plots! TALLIES: Keith 7 Byron 7 Jacob 6 Check out the main episode where we go in depth into Neorealism and it's affect on American cinema! Music: Mabafu - Changes ft. Alena Sola, Bersarinplatz Simon Mathewson - space bugs, Space Bugs Tech Hause Remix, neon rollers --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/btbfilms/support

In this start of a new series on the ‘schools of thought’ of war and IR, Alasdair & Austin take a look into Neorealism. What is its history, what kind of picture does it paint the world in, and do they find it useful in their own work? Shownotes: https://onwarthepodcast.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/season-2-episode-5-on-realism/ Support us on Patreon! : www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=4769847 Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/OnWarPodcast/ Want to keep up to date? Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/OnWarPodcast or on facebook at www.facebook.com/OnWarThePodcast

This week on the InSession Film Podcast, we discuss Danny Boyle's latest film in T2 TRAINSPOTTING, the sequel to the cult classic TRAINSPOTTING released 20 years ago. We also discuss our favorite Danny Boyle scenes and we finish our Italian Neorealism Movie Series with a review of the 1952 film, UMBERTO D.   - Review: T2 Trainspotting (5:27)   - Top 3 Danny Boyle Scenes (37:14)   - Italian Neorealism: Umberto D. (1:12:32)   Thanks for listening and be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud or TuneIn Radio!   iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/insession-film-podcast/id605634337   Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser&u=0#/ps/It5foal422yoktioaclalk3ykyi   Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/insession-film   Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/insession-film   TuneIn Radio: http://tunein.com/radio/The-InSession-Film-Podcast-p522717/   Listen Now: http://insessionfilm.com/insession-film-podcasts-listen-now/

This week on the InSession Film Podcast, friend of the show Billy Cross joins us to discuss the live-action adaptation of GHOST IN THE SHELL, starring the great Scarlett Johansson. We also talk about our favorite characters from movies about artificial intelligence and we continue our Italian Neorealism Movie Series with the 1953 film, I VITELLONI!    - Review: Ghost in the Shell (6:00)   - Top 3 Characters from AI Movies (40:55)   - Italian Neorealism: I Vitelloni (1:22:18)   Thanks for listening and be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud or TuneIn Radio!   iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/insession-film-podcast/id605634337   Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser&u=0#/ps/It5foal422yoktioaclalk3ykyi   Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/insession-film   Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/insession-film   TuneIn Radio: http://tunein.com/radio/The-InSession-Film-Podcast-p522717/   Listen Now: http://insessionfilm.com/insession-film-podcasts-listen-now/

This week on the InSession Film Podcast, we discuss LIFE - ya know, the new movie about aliens and stuff - starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds. Going off of that, we have fun talking about our favorite movies that feature "expendable" casts - aka a bunch of characters that die off throughout the film. And to finish off this week's show we continue our Italian Neorealism Movie Series with a review of the 1949 film BITTER RICE.   - Review: Life (9:37)   - Top 3 Expendable Movie Casts (36:06)   - Italian Neorealism: Bitter Rice (1:10:34)   Thanks for listening and be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud or TuneIn Radio!   iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/insession-film-podcast/id605634337   Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser&u=0#/ps/It5foal422yoktioaclalk3ykyi   Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/insession-film   Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/insession-film   TuneIn Radio: http://tunein.com/radio/The-InSession-Film-Podcast-p522717/   Listen Now: http://insessionfilm.com/insession-film-podcasts-listen-now/

As promised, for our Ep. 213 Bonus Content, we continue our Italian Neorealism Movie Series with a review of the classic film, BICYCLE THIEVES! Enjoy :)

This week on the InSession Film Podcast, comedian Brent Allen joins us once again as we dive into the latest live-action adaptation from Disney in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Jumping off of that for this week's Top 3, we talk about the animated films (any studio) that we would like to see in a live-action format. Finally, we also continue our Italian Neorealism Movie Series by reviewing the 1948 film, BICYCLE THIEVES (however - due to time we moved that discussion to this week's Bonus Content).    - Review: Beauty and the Beast (3:23)   - Top 3 Animated Films as Live-Action (51:56)   - Italian Neorealism: Bicycle Thieves (Ep #213 Bonus Content)   Thanks for listening and be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud or TuneIn Radio!   iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/insession-film-podcast/id605634337   Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser&u=0#/ps/It5foal422yoktioaclalk3ykyi   Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/insession-film   Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/insession-film   TuneIn Radio: http://tunein.com/radio/The-InSession-Film-Podcast-p522717/   Listen Now: http://insessionfilm.com/insession-film-podcasts-listen-now/

This week on the InSession Film Podcast, Lee Brady from Big Picture Reviews and the Atlantic Screen Connection joins us to discuss KONG: SKULL ISLAND and our favorite movies that wears its influences heavily on its sleeve. We also start our Italian Neorealism Movie Series by diving into Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film ROME, OPEN CITY.    - Review: Kong: Skull Island (4:20)   - Top 3 Movies - Wear Its Influences (45:11)   - Italian Neorealism: Rome, Open City (1:27:18)   Thanks for listening and be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Jabbercast, Stitcher, Soundcloud or TuneIn Radio!   iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/insession-film-podcast/id605634337   Jabbercast: https://insessionfilm.jabbercast.com   Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/insession-film   Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/insession-film   TuneIn Radio: http://tunein.com/radio/The-InSession-Film-Podcast-p522717/   Listen Now: http://insessionfilm.com/insession-film-podcasts-listen-now/

Lady P's partying it up, Italian style, with fellow panelists Martin Kessler and Kristen Sales. Today's 39th Sight and Sound entry is Federico Fellini's LA DOLCE VITA. The film stars Marcello Mastroianni as a young intellectual type also coincidentally (or not) named Marcello. Throughout the course of the film we watch as Marcello attends parties, embarks on ill-fated love affairs, and cruises around the countryside. Fellini allows the viewer to indulge in all the fast car/faster women cliches, but keeps the viewer at an ironic distance, purposefully undercutting the glamour of his subjects. This irony, which is weaved throughout the film, serves to underline the film's central question: Is the sweet life really all that sweet? The panel mulls over that question, as well as whether or not that question is compelling enough to earn LA DOLCE VITA the title of 39th Greatest Film Of All Time. Then, in case you needed further proof that rich, good-looking people are just as miserable as the rest of us, our second topic covers ways that extravagant wealth is depicted onscreen. The chasing of money has long been a fascination for American movie audiences. Our canon is littered with films about the folly of striving for financial success (see Citizen Kane, The Godfather, The Wolf of Wall Street, etc.) The panel talks about Hollywood's obsession with millionaires, and compares it with how European cinema deals with its moneyed elites. 

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Lady P is joined today by Flixwise regulars Martin Kessler and Carrie Specht to discuss the 33rd entry on Sight and Sound's "Greatest Film's of All Time" list, Vittorio De Sica's BICYCLE THIEVES. Upon its release in 1948 BICYCLE THIEVES was immediately hailed as a classic and It even managed to snag the number 1 spot on the 1952 Sight and Sound critics poll.  While the film has dropped a few rungs on the Sight and Sound list, it is still considered by many to be the high-water mark of Italian Neo-Realist cinema. The panel discusses BICYCLE THIEVES enduring appeal, and the larger impact of the Neo-Realist movement in film history. Then the panel gets a little verklempt talking about their favorite movie tear jerkers. BICYCLE THIEVES is a heart-wrencher to be sure, but does it bring our panelist to tears? If not, then what kinds of films do make them cry?