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	Bicycle Thieves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ladri di Biciclette, translated as Bicycle Thieves (also known as The Bicycle Thief in its U.S. release) is a 1948 Italian neorealist film, by Vittorio De Sica.
		He is caught and humiliated in front of his son; the owner of the bicycle declines to press charges, realizing that being humiliated in front of his son is punishment enough.
		Bicycle Thieves is the best known neorealist film, a movement begun by Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945), which attempted to give a new degree of realism to cinema.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Bicycle_Thief (388 words)

	The Bicycle Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The mistranslation is easy enough to understand: the title is, at first, a reference to only one man, the unnamed figure who robs Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) of his bicycle and therefore of his job and the only chance to support his family.
		But by the film's end, the film forces us to acknowledge that desperate times can make any man a thief, and that the world is full of those who, under the right circumstances, will take from others to provide for their families.
		As Ricci and his son (Enzo Staiola) scour the city looking for his bicycle, their journey becomes an odyssey of post-war Italian poverty, and the camera constantly reminds us that Ricci is just one of thousands in the same predicament.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/b/bicyclethief.shtml (213 words)

	Vittorio De Sica
		Filmed in the ravages of postwar Italy, The Bicycle Thief is a searing allegory of the human condition, a caustic narrative of despair and hope, loss and redemption, poignantly told in subtle actions and spare words.
		The Bicycle Thief is an honest examination of a soul torn by responsibility and moral consequence, a simple man incapable of articulating his pain, a film devoid of the proselytizing tirades endemic to the rose-colored lenses of contemporary Hollywood.
		The Bicycle Thief is the story of humanity, in all its imperfect beauty and heartbreaking cruelty, the quintessential definition of an artistic masterpiece...
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/desica.html (1234 words)

	Orbital Reviews: The Bicycle Thief (1948) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Unfortunately, when he is working, a thief steals his bicycle, which is absolutely required for his job and is the reason why the government chose him over countless other men wanting work desperately.
		Director Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief is one of the most important films of the Italian Neorealist movement that lasted from 1945 through roughly 1959, which actually is near the time that the French New Wave began and became the dominant film movement in Europe.
		The Bicycle Thief shows a man, Antonio, who has to sacrifice his moral integrity and steal a bike after his own bike is first stolen.
	orbitalreviews.com /movies/BicycleThief.html (1466 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"The Bicycle Thief" is so well-entrenched as an official masterpiece that it is a little startling to visit it again after many years and realize that it is still alive and has strength and freshness.
		The bicycle allows Ricci to go to work as a poster-hanger, slapping paste on walls to stick up cinema advertisements (a large portrait of Rita Hayworth provides an ironic contrast between the world of Hollywood and the everyday lives of neorealism).
		"The Bicycle Thief," De Sica's next film, was in the same tradition, and after the lighthearted "Miracle in Milan" in 1951 he and Zavattini returned to the earlier style with "Umberto D," in 1952, about an old man and his dog, forced out onto the streets.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990319/REVIEWS08/903190306/1023 (1095 words)

	Film Review: The Bicycle Thief
		The ‘The Bicycle Thief’, which received an honorary Oscar in 1949 is one that is basically an illustration of the socio-cultural obstacles and barriers that one tends to encounter when surviving and interacting within a predominantly lower class societal setting.
		Gradually and eventually, ‘’The Bicycle Thief’ brings us to acknowledge that desperate times can make any man a thief, and that the world is full of those who, under the right circumstances, will take from others to provide for their families.
		Ricci is accompanied by his son on his fruitless quest for the recovery of the stolen bicycle, and it is in the manner that his son is portrayed as perceiving his fathers actions that the main theme actually lies.
	www.termpapergenie.com /film_bicycle.html (562 words)

	THE BICYCLE THIEF
		The man is a modest bill-poster; he must have a bicycle to hold his newly found job; he has a wife and small son dependent on him; the loss is an overwhelming blow.
		That is the picture's story—it is as stark and direct as that, and it comes to a close with a fade-out as inconclusive as a passing nod.
		As a matter of fact, both the story and the structure of this film might have been used by Charlie Chaplin in the old days to make one of his great wistful films, for The Bicycle Thief is, in essence, a poignant and bitter irony—the irony of a little fellow buffeted by an indifferent world.
	home.att.net /~pingtze/Film/BicycleThief_NYT_review.htm (808 words)

	Delusions of Adequacy Reviews - Bicycle Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		So The Bicycle Thief is Forrest's new band, and he wrote all the lyrics and sings on them in his slightly off-kilter, almost breaking voice.
		The Bicycle Thief is similar to Thelonious Monster in that band's very rocking sound, slightly southern rock sound.
		Some of The Bicycle Thief's songs are a bit tough for me to get into, primarily because their style of southern-tinged guitar rock just isn't what I'm into right now.
	www.adequacy.net /reviews/b/bicyclethief.shtml (631 words)

	bicycle-thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Reviewers praised THE BICYCLE THIEF unanimously upon its first release, which marked one of the finest achievements of Italian neorealism.
		THE BICYCLE THIEF is a brilliant testament to director Vittorio De Sica's greatness and to the power of neorealism.
		All roles were played by nonactors, the dialogue is as spare as it can be in a talking picture, and the coarse fl-and-white photography makes viewers feel as if they were watching a documentary, though without sacrificing drama.
	yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/b/bicycle-thief.html (212 words)

	The Bicycle Thief - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about The Bicycle Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It concerns a working man and his young son who spend a weekend desperately seeking the stolen bicycle on which the man's job depends.
		Shot on the streets of Rome, using nonprofessional actors, this film is a cornerstone of Italian neo-realism.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /The+Bicycle+Thief (125 words)

	TroyRutter.com - VHS : Bicycle Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Its importance as a film that ushered in a new genre of art, its importance as a postwar piece...all of the notoriety that has arisen around the film is secondary to one thing: powerful storytelling.
		THE BICYCLE THIEF tells a moving story about the relationship of fathers and sons, a moving story about desperation and loss, a moving story that could have been located in any time period,...
		Vittorio De Sica's "The Bicycle Thief" does not transport you to a fantasy realm that serves as a welcome distraction from your day-to-day worries.
	www.troyrutter.com /6302286875/Bicycle_Thief.htm (491 words)

	Ladri di Biciclette The Bicycle Thief
		As the great American playwright (and former husband of Marilyn Monroe) states in his notes on this movie: "The Bicycle Thief is Everyman's search for dignity---it is as though the soul of a man had been filmed.
		This time; however, the thief is not as skilled as the person that took Ricci's bike.
		The Bicycle Thief had such an impact on its first release that when the British film magazine Sight and Sound held its first international poll of filmmakers and critics in 1952, it was voted the greatest film of all time" (Ebert, pp.
	www.mtsu.edu /~socwork/frost/crazy/bicyclethief.htm (2085 words)

	The bicycle thief - National - www.theage.com.au
		The death of the bicycle thief has led police on a Tour de Discovery.
		Most of the bicycles were stolen and still had their cut chains and helmets attached.
		Bicycles with identification will be returned to their owners.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/03/19/1079199430856.html (307 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - The Bicycle Thief
		The Bicycle Thief was widely criticized in Italy for its negativism and for romanticizing the poor.
		Although The Bicycle Thief was carefully scripted, by de Sica and his frequent collaborator Cesare Zavattini, de Sica believed in finding people who looked the part.
		The Bicycle Thief is very much a product of time and place: life among the poor of a very big city after a very big war.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/movieprintstory.mpl/ae/movies/reviews/238014 (544 words)

	Ladri di biciclette (1948) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vittorio De Sica's ground/heartbreaking motion picture, The Bicycle Thief, is based on a very simple ideal for a story- man against the elements.
		In this case the elements are of a society that is often cruel and unforgiving, and that a job in post-war Rome is looked on as the luckiest of good luck charms.
		Very soon though, the bicycle is stolen, and from there a sad downward spiral unravels for the man and his son as they scour the streets for the bicycle.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0040522 (431 words)

	The Bicycle Thief Movie: The Bicycle Thief DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		The recipient of international acclaim, Vittorio de Sica's Italian Neorealist masterwork, THE BICYCLE THIEF, is a treasure of world cinema.
		Thematically, Vittoria de Sica's THE BICYCLE THIEF details an everyman story of loss of innocence in the face of a destitute society, while the film's poignant acting and directing creates an individual and heart-wrenching tale of one man's struggle to feed his family.
		THE BICYCLE THIEF won awards from the British Film Academy and the New York Film Critics.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/014381457223IE (511 words)

	Simply put, 'The Bicycle Thief' changed the way movies were made
		Rarely do you see its title without the word "neorealism" far behind because "The Bicycle Thief" is the film that came to define the Italian strategy of making movies that reflected their reality.
		While the depiction of daily life in "The Bicycle Thief" is certainly viewed with passion, it is hardly free of romance or melodrama.
		Seeing "The Bicycle Thief" on a big screen (rather than on television or, as so many of us first experienced it, in a scratchy 16mm print shown on a pull-down in college classroom) and in a beautifully restored print also shows us how painstakingly composed and photographed the film was.
	www.freep.com /justgo/movies/qbike11.htm (594 words)

	Viewer's comments on "The Bicycle Thief"
		Antonnio Ricci's bicycle is stolen, he thinks his son has drowned, he gets into a fight in a church, he sees a fortune teller, the bicycle thief has an epileptic seizure, Bruno (Antonnio's son) watches as a wealthy boy his age eats beside him in the restaurant, etc. etc.
		And The Bicycle Thief captures every essence of the nearly hopeless post-war poverty experienced by 400,000 Italians, in a very human way through the eyes of a proud father and his son.
		When Ricci first reports the theft of his bicycle to the police, the inspector dismiss it as unimportant and places Ricci's file on top of a pile of other reports, indicating that this is one of many such incidents.
	www.inblackandwhite.com /ItalianNeorealismv2.0/neo-thief.html (1389 words)

	The Bicycle Thief (1948) review by Morris
		Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief is a little Italian gem of undisputed proportions.
		The Bicycle Thief is one of the simplest movies in the history of cinema.
		A classic example of Italian neorealism filmmaking, The Bicycle Thief emerges as Vittorio De Sica’s masterpiece per excellence and goes on to show how great a filmmaker he was.
	www.criticsociety.com /review.asp?id=357 (309 words)

	Bart Bonikowski on The Bicycle Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In order to obtain a bicycle, which is required for the job, his wife is forced to trade in the family's bed sheets at a pawnshop.
		After the bicycle disappears, his wife, who is a key decision-maker at the beginning of the film, vanishes from its plot.
		After Antonio describes the theft to him and they both search the thief's apartment, the officer announces that the case is hopeless, because of a lack of witnesses during the crime.
	www.film.queensu.ca /Critical/Bonikowski.html (3188 words)

	Bicycle Thieves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bicycle Thieves is the best known and, according to most critics, the finest example of an important and influential movement in post-World War II world cinema: Italian neorealism.
		Using "truth" as a rallying cry for the cinema, Italian neorealists not only used many of the storytelling and film making techniques associated with earlier embodiments of realism, but were intent on showing the poverty, despair, and devastation in Italy wrought by war, fascism, and social injustice.
		Although the more common American translation of this film's title is The Bicycle Thief, I have chosen to use the less common, but literally correct, plural translation.
	www.enl.umassd.edu /InteractiveCourse/EThompson/bicyclethieves.html (472 words)

	The Bicycle Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Bicycle Thief is about a man, a worker, who must have a bike in order to work at his job.
		I come, painfully, to the area where there was nothing left, no plots, no cagey angles, but only the possibility of saying openly and clearly and simply what I had in mind to say, uncloaked, naively.
		The Bicycle Thief is especially dear to me - as it will be to many others - because it is so sweetly naïve.
	www.dvdgopher.co.uk /showprod.php?prodid=014381457223 (272 words)

	DVD Booty - The Bicycle Thief
		THE BICYCLE THIEF tells a moving story about the relationship of fathers and sons, a moving story about desperation and loss, a moving story that could have been located in any time period, amidst any external conflicts.
		"The Bicycle Thief" is a bleak treatise on the human condition that shows how dire circumstances can cause even the best of men to resort to desperate acts.
		Unlike other cinematic ventures that try to leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling upon their conclusion, "The Bicycle Thief" is all the more memorable by refusing to shy away from showing us the travails of everyday life.
	www.dvdbooty.com /dvds/the-bicycle-thief (527 words)

	The DVD Maniacs - Forum - The Bicycle Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A touching and tragic tale about a man's loss of his bicycle, which ends in a search that goes nowhere.
		The Bicycle Thief reaches at the heart, and tugs at the brain with emotions and pathos.
		Bicycle Thief would make for an ideal companion piece with Ozu's An Inn in Tokyo.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/printthread.php?t=4037 (200 words)

	A Bicycle Thief
		The old red Raleigh touring bicycle was secured to a street sign with a Kryptonite, the fl U-shaped lock that is legendary for being nearly impossible to cut, saw, or pick.
		The seat was gone, the front wheel was warped, tires flat, the front fender folded back against the tire, handlebars badly rusted, chain the same, brake and gear cables slack, their plastic casings cracked, and the rear reflector was askew.
		So, I left the restaurant with the assurance that the bicycle was abandoned, and that I was to remove it from in front of the business as soon as possible.
	www.mrbellersneighborhood.com /beller.cgi/00542 (2115 words)

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	The Bicycle Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Bicycle Thief appeared at the top choice in the initial 1952 Sight & Sound International Critics Poll, dropped to number six in the second poll in 1962 and hasn’t cracked the top ten ever since.
		The job is for a poster hanger that requires having a bicycle for transporting himself and his equipment.
		Of course we anticipate that Ricci’s bicycle will be stolen, and de Sica gives us a few moments of anxiety whenever Ricci leaves his bicycle unguarded.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/foreign_films/72169 (514 words)

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