Italian director, screenwriter, and critic Carlo Lizzani, who was Oscar-nominated in 1950 as co-writer of neo-realist classic “Bitter Rice,” went on to direct dozens of films, and in the late 1970s ...

Carlo Lizzani was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic. Born in Rome, after World War II Lizzani worked on such notable films of the late 1940s as Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, ...

Carlo Lizzani’s voice off recounts his memories, from his childhood (in the 30s) to his debut (1951) and from his tale (from conceptual and at times historical connections) emerge the various inputs ...

Carlo Lizzani, a filmmaker who collaborated on several early landmark movies in the Italian neorealist movement of the late 1940s and early 1950s, died Oct. 5 in Rome, Italian state news media ...

07/10/2013 - He was 91. A director, screenwriter and cinema critic, he also directed the Venice Film Festival from 1979 to 1982 Carlo Lizzani committed suicide by throwing himself from the third floor ...

Filmmaker and key player of Italian neo-realism Carlo Lizzani has died at 91. He reportedly fell from the third floor balcony of his Rome home, a suicide investigation is underway. President Giorgio ...

Wake Up and Kill A seminal crime movie from one of Italy’s most important and underrated directors of the 1960s, Wake Up and Kill represents a fascinating intersection between the neorealist films ...

For the third straight year, Milwaukee hosts the entirely free Italian Film Festival USA, this weekend, May 9-10, at UWM Union Theatre, on the second floor of the Student Union, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.