The Cinema of Ermanno Olmi

<p> Ermanno Olmi is one of cinema's great unsung filmmakers. Emerging onto the Italian art film scene just as the last canonical neo-realist movies were released in the late 1950s and early 1960s several of Olmi's films including <I>Il Posto</I> (1961) <I>The Tree of Wooden Clogs</I> (1978) and <I>The Legend of the Holy Drinker</I> (1988) won top prizes at Cannes and Venice. However the majority of his work has remained unappreciated. This the first English language book on Olmi explores the director's style and evolving environmentalism from his early institutional short films made while working at an Italian energy company to his 19 feature films. </p>