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Episode 206 – Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan
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English - May 16, 2020 11:59 - 36.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsTV & Film Arts Visual Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This time on the podcast, Jordan Essoe, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens discuss Roberto Rossellini's Paisan.
This time on the podcast, Jordan Essoe, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens discuss Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan.
With its documentary-like visuals and intermingled cast of actors and nonprofessionals, Italians and their American liberators, this look at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people to live their everyday lives in extreme circumstances is equal parts charming sentiment and vivid reality.
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EPISODE LINKS
Paisan (1946)
Paisan: More Real Than Real
‘Paisan,’ Italian Importation, Tops Four Openings – Two Other Foreign Films Seen – The New York Times
Roberto Rossellini and World War II: Part Two – The American Society of Cinematographers
Amazon.com: Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy
EPISODE CREDITS
Jordan Essoe (Twitter / Website)
Scott Nye (Twitter / Battleship Pretension)
David Blakeslee (Twitter / Criterion Reflections)
Arik Devens (Twitter / funfact.fm)