Newly restored and re-released, Ermanno Olmi’s masterpiece The Tree of Wooden Clogs, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1978, portrays Italian peasant life at the end of the 19th century via a ...

Director Ermanno Olmi opens his sublime epic The Tree of Wooden Clogs with a series of still shots of farmland—creeks, cornfields, and crops—set to the foregrounded sounds of birdsong and rushing ...

Ermanno Olmi, a noted Italian neorealist director whose 1978 film The Tree of Wooden Clogs won the Palme d’Or in Cannes, has died at age 86. No cause of death was given. Italian officials confirmed ...

entury Lombardy life in all its hardship and paradoxical beauty. It’s a world defined by labour on the land and Catholicism, in which the details and rituals of existence appear unchanged over ...

The Italian helmer was "one of the last of the great filmmakers of the '60s," Martin Scorsese says. By Rhett Bartlett Ermanno Olmi, the master Italian neorealist director who received the Palme d’Or ...

Newly restored and re-released, Ermanno Olmi's masterpiece The Tree of Wooden Clogs, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1978, portrays Italian peasant life at the end of the 19th century via a ...

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An Italian classic about rural poverty will be shown Feb. 5 to 8 at Cinestudio in Hartford. “Tree of Wooden Clogs” tells the story of four farming families living in the Italian countryside during the ...

Italian director Ermanno Olmi, known for humanist dramas in which he explored spirituality and social themes such as “The Tree of Wooden Clogs,” which won the 1978 Cannes Palme d’Or, has died. He was ...

Ermanno Olmi, the Italian director best known for winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1978 with his drama “The Tree of Wooden Clogs,” has died at 86. The director passed away in Asiago, Northern Italy ...

Italian director Ermanno Olmi, known for humanist dramas in which he explored spirituality and social themes such as “The Tree of Wooden Clogs,” which won the 1978 Cannes Palme d’Or, has died. He was ...