Daniel and Corky keep it Neo-Real with their review of Italian Neo-Realist icon Roberto Rossellini’s highly influential Paisan. Rather than simple tales of heroes at war, Rossellini offers bitterness-tinged stories of tenuous brotherhood along the Allied path to victory. But did this WWII anthology leave your hosts battling a bulge, or do they have their heads up their Anzio?
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #196 [tied]
World premiere: September 1946 (Venice Film Festival)
IMDB synopsis: “American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.”
Martin Scorsese presents Paisan
“You can’t cross the road now.”
Metropolis (1927; Dir.: Fritz Lang)
IMDB synopsis: “In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.”
Our review of Metropolis comes out Dec. 16!
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