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Sure, Waititi isn’t remaking Rossellini’s Germany Year Zero, but still…
Part All Quiet on the Western Front, part Diary of Anne Frank, part Germany Year Zero, and all Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbit is an immensely important and timely addition to the canon of anti-war art.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Directed by John Carpenter
influenced by Stromboli (1950), Europa '51 (1952)
Though Rossellini's films with Miss Bergman, including "Stromboli" and "Europe '51," never created a popular stir in their own day, they now constitute one of the more moving personal records of a love affair ever to be contained in supposedly commercial motion pictures.
Though Rossellini's films with Miss Bergman, including "Stromboli" and "Europe '51," never created a popular stir in their own day, they now constitute one of the more moving personal records of a love affair ever to be contained in supposedly commercial motion pictures.
It is also, of course, a film that is in love with the cinema, and those who know and appreciate film history will have a particularly meaningful experience watching the various films that unspool in the little theater, from the neorealist masterpiece Rome, Open City (1945), to Hollywood sword-and-sandal schlock like Ulysses (1954).
La Notte is thus something of Antonioni's update of Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy from 1954.
The most significant film reference occurs when the characters attend a screening of Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy .
Put another way, Godzilla is the Germany Year Zero of monster movies.