Pope Francis reveals affection for classics of neo-realist cinema including Rome, Open City, The Leopard and La Strada, which he first watched with his parents
• Pope Francis film greenlit
After a hard day at the Vatican, the pontiff likes little better than watching films in which a resolute priest battles the Nazis and a circus strongman takes a waif as his slave. Or to put it another way, Pope Francis has revealed himself as a longtime fan of Italian neo-realist cinema.
In an interview with Rome's La Republicca newspaper, the Pope discussed his love of post-war Italian movies with veteran journalist Eugenio Scalfari. His favourites, he said, included Roberto Rossellini's landmark wartime drama Rome, Open City and Federico Fellini's operatic circus saga La Strada. Pope Francis also praised The Leopard, Luchino Visconti's 1963 epic about the Italian risorgimento, starring the Hollywood actor Burt Lancaster as the prince of Salina.
• Pope Francis film greenlit
After a hard day at the Vatican, the pontiff likes little better than watching films in which a resolute priest battles the Nazis and a circus strongman takes a waif as his slave. Or to put it another way, Pope Francis has revealed himself as a longtime fan of Italian neo-realist cinema.
In an interview with Rome's La Republicca newspaper, the Pope discussed his love of post-war Italian movies with veteran journalist Eugenio Scalfari. His favourites, he said, included Roberto Rossellini's landmark wartime drama Rome, Open City and Federico Fellini's operatic circus saga La Strada. Pope Francis also praised The Leopard, Luchino Visconti's 1963 epic about the Italian risorgimento, starring the Hollywood actor Burt Lancaster as the prince of Salina.
- 10/3/2013
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Rome – Pope Francis said this week he is an admirer of Italian films of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, including works from Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini. He also said he'd take a look at two films released this year suggested by an interviewer. The pontiff gave a wide-ranging interview to Eugenio Scalfari, an 89-year-old athiest journalist from Rome's La Repubblica newspaper and one of the deans of Italy's press corps. The interview focused mostly on issues of spirituality and Church reform, but it also touched upon cinema. Francis mentioned adaptations of Alessandro Manzoni's classic novel
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- 10/2/2013
- by Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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