Cinema Of Italy
The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.
Read more about Cinema Of Italy: Early Years, Avant-garde, Cinecittà, Neorealism, Pink Neorealism and Comedy, Peplum (aka Sword and Sandal), The Spaghetti Western, Auteurs, Sophia Loren's Academy Award, Thriller/Horror, Poliziotteschi, The 1980s Crisis, 1990 To Present
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“Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)