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 ...

Painterly beauty: Olmi was his own cinematographer on 'The Tree of Wooden Clogs' At the visual heart of the film is the farmhouse-yard, or cascina, in which life is concentrated, home to a number of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olmi received his breakthrough with his 1961 drama “Il Posto,” an Italian Neorealism riff that made him a name at the Venice Film ...

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 ...

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 ...