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ITALIAN AUTEURS

by Anton Williams
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Italy, 1950s – 00s

Italy produced many auteurs* throughout its history, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Mario Monicelli, Marco Ferreri, Ermanno Olmi, Umberto Lenzi, Lina Wertmüller, and Luchino Visconti.

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*In film criticism, the 1950s-era auteur theory holds that a director’s films reflect that director’s personal creative vision, as if he were the primary “auteur” (the French word for...


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