“MORE RELEVANT, MORE POWERFUL, MAYBE MORE REAL THAN EVER” The film, Bicycle Thief, which was directed by Vittorio De Sica, presents the complexity of human nature by telling a simple story. The restored print a new generation to see how simple, direct, and true it is – ‘what was so special about it.’” The poll is held every ten years by 1962, it was down to a tie for sixth, and then it dropped off the list. Given an honorary Oscar for 1949, routinely voted one of the greatest films of all time, revered as one of the foundation stones of Italian neorealism, it is a simple, powerful film… When the British film magazine Sight & Sound held its first international poll of filmmakers and critics in 1952, it was voted the greatest film of all time.
“ The Bicycle Thief is so well entrenched as an official masterpiece that it is startling to visit it again after many years and realize that it is still alive and has strength and freshness. The use of non professional actors, to low class working characters, the flattening of scenes, and the location where it was shot at are just a few of the essential elements that can be found in this film along with copious neorealist films. “One of art film's most powerful gateway drugs, still haunting in its painful simplicity, laced with the unforgettable behavioral moments that may be De Sica's greatest claim to posterity.” In the film The Bicycle Thief the audience is able to witness all the elements of neorealism. He transforms the sheer scale of the city and the vast number of residents in similarly desperate straits into A SYMPHONIC LAMENT FOR THE HUMAN CONDITION.” Revealing the catastrophic impact of seemingly minor events on people who are struggling to subsist, De Sica endows slender side business and incidental pictorial details with high suspense and tragic grandeur. “PERHAPS THE QUINTESSENTIAL WORK OF ITALIAN NEOREALISM. Attacked in Italy as being too negative, but still winner of the Italian Best Picture equivalent, New York Film Critics’ prize, and Best Foreign Film Oscar.
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Ladri di biciclette (1948, De Sica) In a devastated postwar Italy, even a job posting bills for a Rita Hayworth movie looks good to unemployed Lamberto Maggiorani, but when his bike is suddenly stolen, it’s time for him and his little son Enzo Staiola to take a desperate odyssey through Rome’s looming streets.
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