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 ...

Italian director Ermanno Olmi, who died in 2018, was mostly self-taught, according to an obituary that ran in The New York Times. A devout Roman Catholic, he loved exploring the tales of simple folk ...

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 ...

Ermanno Olmi, an Italian cinematic giant who won the top award at the Cannes Film Festival for his depiction of 19th- century Italian farm life in "The Tree of Wooden Clogs," has died at age 86. Olmi ...

Four years ago, when the Venice Film Festival invited Ermanno Olmi to accept its prestigious Golden Lion career prize, the distinguished neorealist director turned it down. By Eric J. Lyman, The ...

Ermanno Olmi, a largely self-taught Italian director who wove family folk tales and unadorned accounts of farm life, class and Roman Catholicism into neorealist films that often starred amateur actors ...

ROME (Reuters) - Ermanno Olmi, one of Italy's great post-war directors, who won top awards at both the Cannes and Venice film festivals, has died at the age of 86, his family said on Monday. Olmi was ...

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It was 30 years ago that my first screenwriting credit, “Iguana,” was invited to the Venice Film Festival, the same year that Italian director Ermanno Olmi’s “The Legend of the Holy Drinker” screened ...

Italian neo-realist film director Ermanno Olmi has died aged 86, ANSA news agency reported Monday. Born on July 24, 1931, in the town of Treviglio in the northern Lombardy region where Milan is ...