I went to see this program here. Although both films were made in 1:1.33 aspect ratio, they were projected as though they were 1:1.66. Tops and/or bottoms were cut off. You can imagine what that did to the subtitles or heads on “Open City.”
Rossellini’s “Woman” (“Desiderio”) plus Gassman in “Shamed” (“Preludio d'amore”.) An Italian double bill that circulated widely, if slowly, during the 1950s and early 1960s.
It opened here August 29, 1950. It was made in 1945.
I didn’t have a date when I posted. It opened here on April 28, 1965. I just checked IMDb.
Original titles: “Persiane chiuse” and “Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna.”
Two Italian-made films.
Two Italian-made films, probably dubbed in English here.
This is a long-lost film by Erich von Stroheim.
I went to see this program here. Although both films were made in 1:1.33 aspect ratio, they were projected as though they were 1:1.66. Tops and/or bottoms were cut off. You can imagine what that did to the subtitles or heads on “Open City.”
I went to see this program here.
A great Italian film that got a very limited release in the U.S.
The Bushnell opened in 1930.
Released in 1965.
Great film by Ken Loach.
When I was in grammar school in the 1950s, a PUBLIC school, we were marched to a local theatre to watch it.
With Silvana Pampanini.
“La notte brava,” 1959, by Mauro Bolognini, script by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Eleonora Rossi-Drago.
Haha. Is this child a little Caesar, a public enemy, or both?
Film is “La smania addosso,” 1963, directed by Marcello Andrei.
I saw this program at a Massachusetts drive-in in 1958.
The actress on the left is correctly named Isa Pola.
Rossellini’s “Woman” (“Desiderio”) plus Gassman in “Shamed” (“Preludio d'amore”.) An Italian double bill that circulated widely, if slowly, during the 1950s and early 1960s.
At the Carnegie Hall Screening Room.
The co-feature is actually “The Taming of the Shrew,” (La Bisbetica Domata) with Lilia Silvi.
The film was reviewed by Graham Greene in his published reviews from that period.
Subtitled Italian film program, rather unusual for any drive-in.