Author Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, where he is directing a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council on the history of the British Film Institute. He is the editor of The Oxford History of World Cinema (1996) and has published many books and articles on Italian cinema, most recently Luchino Visconti (2003).

Le Varianti Trasparenti: I Film con Ingrid Bergman di Roberto Rossellini by Elena Dagrada

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

February 2006

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The story begins with a letter sent, speculatively, by Ingrid Bergman to the Italian director Roberto Rossellini. “Dear Mr Rossellini,” it began: I saw your films Open City and Paisan, and enjoyed them ver...