Category: Francesco Rosi’s Post-Neorealist 1970s

Omnes Eodem Cogimur: Christ Stopped at Eboli and Life Under Fascism

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a white man with dark brown hair standing on a balcony saluting with one arm forward while a crowd of people looks up at him

|Courtney Kowalke| For the past year, I’ve had Umberto Eco’s essay “Ur-Fascism” open in a tab in Firefox on my phone. Going about my daily life the way I did prior to 2025 has me feeling wrong-footed. I feel like a foreigner on earth, like the world… Continue reading

Managing the Crisis Rather than Breaking the Machine: The Prophetic Paranoia of Francesco Rosi’s Illustrious Corpses

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|Victoria Breshears| Francesco Rosi’s 1976 political thriller Illustrious Corpses begins with us watching a high court judge move past rows of clothed, desiccated mummies within the Capuchin Catacombs. While this opening scene signals mortality to be an important theme for the movie… Continue reading