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Author Joseph Sgammato

Joseph Sgammato

Joseph Sgammato has written for Sight and Sound, The Wordsworth Circle, The College Language Association Journal, and other publications. He teaches English and Film at Westchester Community College, a division of the State University of New York (SUNY), in Valhalla, New York, USA, and lives in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Shimizu Redivivus: Nakinureta haru no onna yo (A Woman Crying in Spring, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1933)

Joseph Sgammato
April 2021
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Among the many differences the widely acknowledged dean of Japanese film scholars in the Anglophone world, Donald Richie, likes to point out between Western and Japanese filmmakers is their response to the intr...

“Reality Is Always Magic”: Experience (Abbas Kiarostami, 1973)

Joseph Sgammato
July 2020
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When Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami unexpectedly passed away in 2016, he was deeply mourned by lovers of cinema. Martin Scorsese gave voice to the world’s loss when he said, “He was one of those rare artists...

The Flipside of Neorealism: Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica, 1951)

Joseph Sgammato
February 2020
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What are we to make of Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan, 1951), Vittorio De Sica’s comic fantasy about postwar poverty produced within the artistic parameters of neorealismo? We all know the requirements ...

His Enchanted Gaze: The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, 1978)

Joseph Sgammato
October 2019
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Among important Italian directors, Ermanno Olmi occupies a curious middle ground. Critics and fans alike may sense that his works offer more substance than many – indeed, perhaps even the majority of – films of...

See, Hear, and Speak of Evil: Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2008)

Joseph Sgammato
February 2019
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Üç Maymun (Three Monkeys, 2008) was the fifth of the eight features that have so far been directed by Cannes favourite Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a leading Turkish filmmaker who has earned international respect for fil...

Naked Came the Stranger: Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Andersen, 1975)

Joseph Sgammato
March 2018
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University courses on the history of film often begin with the photographic experiments of Eadweard Muybridge, most famously the 1878 sequence of still photographs of a galloping racehorse that showed all four ...
Maborosi

A Woman Asks Why: Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1995)

Joseph Sgammato
June 2017
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Maborosi (1995) launched the feature film career of Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda, until then a maker of television documentaries only. Unlike many first efforts that must settle for “promising” status, Ma...

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