Daniel and Corky keep it Neo-Real with their review of Italian Neo-Realist icon Roberto Rossellini’s highly influential Paisan. Rather than simple tales of heroes at war, Rossellini offers bitterness-tinged stories of tenuous brotherhood along the Allied path to victory. But did this WWII anthology leave your hosts battling a bulge, or do they have their heads up their Anzio?

Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #196 [tied]

World premiere: September 1946 (Venice Film Festival)

IMDB synopsis: “American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.”

Martin Scorsese presents Paisan

The opening scenes

“You can’t cross the road now.”

Just watch the whole movie

Metropolis (1927; Dir.: Fritz Lang)

IMDB synopsis: “In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.”

Our review of Metropolis comes out Dec. 16!

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