We continue our immersion in the web archives looking for the most interesting material on Neorealism.
Today our attention is focused on video-sharing platforms, where we found some interesting documents that trace, analyze and tell the story of the neorealist movement.
Here in our opinion the five best videos on Neorealism:
1) We open our ranking with “What is neorealism?” An extraordinary video that analyzes Vittorio De Sica’s Stazione Termini and David O. Selznick’s Indiscretion of an American Wife a rare opportunity to compare two cuts of the same film from a leading figure of neorealism and a leading figure of Hollywood.
2) “My Voyage to Italy” is a personal documentary by the acclaimed Italian-American director Martin Scorsese. The film is a voyage through Italian cinema history, marking influential films for Scorsese and particularly covering the Italian neorealism period.
3) “Italian Neorealism” is a documentary made by two former film history students on the Italian Neorealist movement. A historical perspective of the socio-economic condition that inspired Neorealism.
4) “Come un Canto. Appunti e Immagini di un Regista Dimenticato” (Like a Song. Clipboard and Images of a Forgotten Director) is the reconstruction of the relationship between Antonio Marchi and cinema. A video document of his amateur films from the National Family Films Archives and commented on by a text from the clipboard and critical notes of Antonio Marchi himself.
5) Closes our rankings “Neorealismo Italiano – Italian Art and Culture”, a historiographical collection, which pays tribute to and analyzes Neo-realism, through a careful selection of clips of the most beautiful film of Neorealism production.
