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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yet its opening scene, in which a priest convinces a peasant couple that their young son (pictured below) should go to school, subtly suggests that this old-established world, one in which literacy is ...

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 ...