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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...