Continually enmeshed in controversy, perhaps no other figure in the history of world cinema has been so reviled - and so revered.

A close analysis of the seven films that mark important turning points in Rossellini's evolution: The Man with a Cross (1943), Open City (1945), Paisan (1946),

He Had Come To See A World At The End Of One Period Of History And At The Beginning Of Another More Dramatic One. When He Came To India In December 1956 Roberto

This radical re-reading of Ford's work studies his films in the context of his complex character, demonstrating their immense intelligence and their profound cr