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Monday 9 - Friday 20 August 2004
To accompany Martin Scorsese's personal tour through Italian cinema we are showing seven of the landmark films he discusses in the series.
"Over the years I have seen most of these movies many times and their impact on me has never weakened." - Martin Scorsese.
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VOYAGE TO ITALY
Roberto Rossellini, 1953
Sunday 8 August 11pm-12.25am
"Meditative and a little mysterious... it is a film that moved me tremendously when I first saw it."
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ROME, OPEN CITY
Roberto Rossellini, 1945
Monday 9 August 11pm-12.40am
"If it can be said that neo-realism began with one film, it would have to be Rome, Open City."
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GERMANY YEAR ZERO
Roberto Rossellini, 1947
Friday 13 August 11.30pm-12.40am
"I think that Rossellini was pleading with the nations of post-war Europe to find some sympathy and tolerance for their former enemy."
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PAISÀ
Roberto Rossellini, 1946
Friday 13 August 12.40am-2.40am
"The first Italian film I remember seeing. The print was so dark you could hardly see what was happening. Yet despite that, everything essential came through."
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8½
Federico Fellini, 1963
Sunday 15 August 11.05pm-1.20am
"A real breakthrough... a visual stream of consciousness that left the viewer in a constant state of surprise."
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LA TERRA TREMA
Luchino Visconti, 1948
Monday 16 August 11.10pm-1.45am
"Visconti shaped reality into something truly inspiring... it is unlike anything else he ever did before or after."
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OSSESSIONE
Luchino Visconti, 1943
Friday 20 August 11.30pm-1.45am
"Visconti's gift was already there - the eye for detail, his mastery of the camera and most of all his operatic sense of action and emotion."
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MY VOYAGE TO ITALY HOMEPAGE
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