I saw Night of the Shooting Stars back when I was in college and took a class in Italian Cinema. In fact, the reporter quoted my professor (now at Yale) in this obituary:
"They charted a very important path in postwar Italian cinema,” said Millicent Marcus, a professor of Italian studies and film studies at Yale University, counting the brothers among the filmmakers who “elaborated on the neorealist premise of making films that matter.”
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Previously on the BBS:
