The beautiful transfer helps make the argument that the film is more than just a curio in neorealist history.
The 1967 omnibus film The Witches still manages to cast a spell at times, owing to the contributions of its talented cast and crew.
The film is an endlessly complex, universal testament to the ills of valuing commerce over compassion.
Umberto D. wants to break your heart. Criterion’s spit-polished Blu-ray upgrade makes that prospect all the more beguiling.
A keystone in a historic cinematic movement, but this release does not persuade that it equals the best of its era or its genre.
The Children Are Watching Us is a marvel of complex visual and emotional scope.
De Sica looked at the ruin of post-war Italy more lucidly, and with more tears in his eyes, than any of his contemporaries.