Following the 2019 edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, which will run June 6 -12, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Istituto Luce Cinecittà will present a retrospective dedicated to the work of director Ermanno Olmi. The lineup will include films from his career that spanned more than six decades. "Updating the stylistic hallmarks of Italian neorealism to craft fiction films full of light and dignity, Olmi time and again captured the experience of work and family and expressed the churn of history with humor and grace. Known for his commitment to working with nonprofessional actors and to capturing the specific textures of the locations in which he filmed, Olmi, who started out as a self-taught documentarian, drew inspiration from his Catholic faith and from the social and cultural preoccupations of his native Lombardy region—personified by peasants in rural farming communities or by white-collar workers in the provincial capital of Milan. But Olmi, who ...
100+ YEARS OF THE GREAT ITALIAN MOVIEMAKERS