Filmcritica, Italian monthly magazine of cinema, film and television culture and critique, issue 149, September 1964. Including: an article by Armando Plebe debating realism in film from the point of view of Umberto Barbaro, Russian Vsevolod Pudovkin and Siegfried Kracauer's critical film theories, mentioning 'The Gold of Naples' by Vittorio De Sica, 'Il Grido' by Michelangelo Antonioni and other films by Italian Carlo Lizzani, Renato Castellani, Luchino Visconti, Alberto Lattuada, Alessandro Blasetti and 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' by British David Lean, 'The Young Lions' by American Irvin Shaw; an article by Roberto Paolella about a retrospective of Nordic cinema focusing in particular on Stiller and Bergman for the Swedish cinema, Benjamin Christensen, A W Sandberg for the Danish cinema; Harold Pinter's screenplay of 'The Servant' by Joseph Losey (1963); an article by Maurizio Ponzi about film director Fritz Lang and his films 'M' (1931), 'You Only Live Once' (1936), 'Moonfleet' (1955), 'Tiger of Bengal' and 'The Indian Tomb' (1959), 'Metropolis' (1927), 'Human Desire' 1954, 'The Big Heat' 1953; an article by Roberto Paolella about a cinema congress on film theory; an article by Antonio Castaldi about 'Lawrence of Arabia' by David Lean; an article by Luigi Martelli about James Bond films, mentioning 'Doctor No', 'From Russia with Love' directed by Terence Young; two critical reviews relating to the 25th Venice Film Festival: one about 'Girl with the Green Eyes' by British director Desmond Davis and with actress Rita Tushingam and the British cinema; the second one about 'This Special Friendship' (1964) by French film director Jean Delannoy and the old and new generations of French cinema, including mentions of the French New Wave with Jean Luc Godard and Alain Jessua; critical review by Adriano Apra of film 'Scorched Skin' by Italian film director Giuseppe Fina with actress Elsa Martinelli; a review by Maurizio Ponzi about American film director Delmer Daves and his latest film 'Spencer's Mountain' (1963); a review by Luigi Faccini of film 'The Executioner' (1963) by Spanish film director Luis García Berlanga with actor Nino Manfredi; a review by Luigi Martinelli of film 'The Small World of Sammy Lee' (1963) by British film director Ken Hughes. Cover featuring a scene from 'Le Gros Coup' (1964) by Jean Velere with Hardy Kruger.