Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Sophia Loren in The Condemned of Altona (1962, dir. Vittorio De Sica) Photo by Herbert List (via)

Sophia Loren in The Condemned of Altona (1962, dir. Vittorio De Sica)

Photo by Herbert List (via)

Sophia Loren & Eleonora Brown in Two Women (1960, dir. Vittorio de Sica) “I am basically an unhappy man. Life gives me always the impression of cruelty. I read the newspaper - crimes, murders, divorces, and so on. I do not find evidence of sincerity or solidarity there. I love humanity, I trust humanity, but humanity has a way of disillusioning me. The pictures I direct are nearly always melancholy. This comes from the contrast between my love and my disillusion. I am an optimist. I love life. I seek perfection. If my art seems pessimistic, it is a consequence of my continuing optimism and its disillusion.” -Vittorio de Sica, New Yorker, June 1957

Sophia Loren & Eleonora Brown in Two Women (1960, dir. Vittorio de Sica)

“I am basically an unhappy man. Life gives me always the impression of cruelty. I read the newspaper - crimes, murders, divorces, and so on. I do not find evidence of sincerity or solidarity there. I love humanity, I trust humanity, but humanity has a way of disillusioning me. The pictures I direct are nearly always melancholy. This comes from the contrast between my love and my disillusion. I am an optimist. I love life. I seek perfection. If my art seems pessimistic, it is a consequence of my continuing optimism and its disillusion.”

-Vittorio de Sica, New Yorker, June 1957

Sophia Loren & Marcello Mastroianni in Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963, dir Vittorio de Sica)

Sophia Loren & Marcello Mastroianni in Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963, dir Vittorio de Sica)