Film Club update

The final two films in the first series of screenings for the Cinema Salon Film Club at the Clark will be:

Friday, 11/6, 4:00 pm: La Terra Trema. (1947, 160 min.) Luchino Visconti’s neorealist examination of life in a Sicilian fishing village is explicitly Marxist but also lyrical, long and slow but thoroughly involving.

Friday, 11/20, 4:00 pm: La Strada. (1954, 104 min.) Federico Fellini emerges from his neorealist roots into his own personal style of sentimental fantasy, on “the road” with a waif played by his wife Giulietta Massina, who is indentured to itinerant strongman Anthony Quinn..

Thereafter, the Film Club will break for the holidays and return in February with a new series of screenings, under the heading of “What in the World is Going On?” Check back to this website for updated information.

I happened to notice this week that coincidentally Lincoln Center is just now offering a much more extensive series on Italian neorealism, and their program notes offer a concise summary of the points I've been making over the past weeks. For more detailed info, check out their program guide.