The Cinema of Ermanno Olmi

Download or read book The Cinema of Ermanno Olmi written by Ian Pettigrew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ermanno Olmi is one of cinema's great, unsung filmmakers. Emerging onto the Italian art film scene just as the last canonical neo-realist movies were released in the late 1950s and early 1960s, several of Olmi's films, including Il Posto (1961), The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) and The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988), won top prizes at Cannes and Venice. However, the majority of his work has remained unappreciated. This, the first English language book on Olmi, explores the director's style and evolving environmentalism, from his early, institutional short films, made while working at an Italian energy company, to his 19 feature films.