Author Spotlight

Peter Brunette

Peter Brunette is Reynolds Professor of Film Studies at Wake Forest University and the author of books on Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and, most recently, the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai.

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The Children Are Watching Us: A Movement Is Born

The Italian drama marked the first full blossoming of director Vittorio De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini’s ongoing collaboration.

By Peter Brunette

The Flowers of St. Francis: God’s Jester

This delicate, fascinating film is self-consciously, almost militantly, naive, and it remains something of an anomaly in Roberto Rossellini’s body of work.

By Peter Brunette