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	Vittorio De Sica
		Filmed in the ravages of postwar Italy, Bicycle Thieves 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.
		Bicycle Thieves 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.
		Bicycle Thieves 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 (1230 words)

	Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin
		Where it is located, how much space is provided for each bicycle as well as for access around the rack and bicycles, and racks that are easy to use with a variety of locks and accessories.
		Bicycle parking should be in a high traffic area where bicycle thieves have little time to work unobserved.
		Another common misuse of this rack is for a bicycle to be parked parallel to the rack, turning it into a one bike rack.
	www.bfw.org /articles/rackem.php (889 words)

	The History
		Bicycle trails were created to enable two-wheeler enthusiasts to ride throughout the region.
		In 1899, Mayor Johnson signed a bicycling ordinance for the City of Denver in which bicyclists were not allowed to ride on the sidewalks, and had to ride with at least one hand on the handlebars and both feet on the pedals.
		The bicycle was relegated to the status of a toy, ridden only by children and eccentrics.
	www.denvergov.org /Bicycle_Program/template17824.asp (820 words)

	Nowhere to hide for Dutch bike thieves - World - www.smh.com.au
		Police plan to bait thieves with bicycles equipped with hidden global positioning transmitters in the latest effort to stamp out Amsterdam's rampant bicycle theft.
		Bicycle theft is so widespread in Amsterdam that rental shops will not let customers leave without giving them a crash course on bike locking - attaching both wheels to the frame, and chaining the bicycle to a fixed object, such as a bicycle stand.
		Campaigners against bicycle theft say the majority of bicycle thieves, 40 per cent, are professionals while 30 per cent are drug addicts looking for a quick and easy way to get cash for their next fix.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/03/12/1078594571817.html?from=storyrhs (368 words)

	Bicycle Thieves is a poignant neorealist work
		At the beginning of The Bicycle Thieves a man emerges from a crowd of unemployed workers, and after we have contemplated his working-class tragedy, he blends back with the masses as the movie comes to its end.
		The Bicycle Thieves is one of the crown jewels of neorealism, the post-war Italian philosophy of filmmaking that permanently reinvigorated our world of cinema.
		Cesare Zavattini, the script writer for Bicycle Thieves, was the most important theoretician of neorealism.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V115/N23/bicycle.23a.html (691 words)

	bicycle thieves -stolen bikes - by felix petrelli
		You can pay good money for your bicycle, ride it for years, but if you are not cautious one day someone may say it`s theirs, not yours.
		A very simple low-cost but effective method used by the Police to identify bicycles is postcoding the frame using a UV (invisible) marker pen.
		Ceasing after bicycle thieves is definitely not a waste of time for him.
	digilander.libero.it /felixpetrelli/bicyclethieves.htm (1699 words)

	english 1810 : introduction to film
		Bicycle Thieves will introduce you to a new style of filmmaking—Italian neorealism—which was shaped not only by the actual conditions of its production in a post-World War II Italy but also by an explicitly Leftist political agenda.
		Bicycle Thieves, or The Bicycle Thief as it was dubbed in the U.S., was awarded an honorary Academy Award in 1949.
		The immediate impact of Bicycle Thieves on international cinema was evident in the inaugural Sight and Sound (The British Film Institute’s renowned film journal) critics’ poll in 1952.
	www.missouri.edu /~engwest/courses/film1/handouts/11.27-bicycle.html (1001 words)

	film notes, neorealism, bicycle thief, vittorio de sica, travis else
		The only requirement is that he have a bicycle.
		He has none, but his wife is willing to pawn the sheets from their bed in order to purchase one.
		Not long into this, his very first day, the bicycle is stolen (undoubtedly by another desperate man seeking work).
	www.filmnotes.com /articles/bicycle.html (865 words)

	The Bicycle Thief
		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 (286 words)

	Dutch track bicycle thieves with GPS
		Amsterdam police are to use bicycles fitted with hidden GPS transmitters to track bicycle thieves in an attempt to stop city-wide bike theft.
		Up to 80,000 bicycles are stolen in Amsterdam every year representing 16% of the number of bikes in the city.
		The Amsterdam police say that 40% of bike crime is carried out by professional thieves, 30% by drug addicts hoping to fund their next fix and 30% by occasional thieves, mainly young people and students who are often drunk.
	www.rin.org.uk /pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_93417 (94 words)

	GIS News:Bicycle thieves face satellite police
		Amsterdam police will use bicycles equipped with hidden GPS transmitters to bait thieves and track them down in the latest effort to stamp out rampant bike theft, a police spokesman says.
		According to a website campaigning against bike theft in Amsterdam (www.fietsendiefstal.nl), 40 percent of bike thieves are professionals while 30 percent are drug addicts who sell stolen bikes as quickly as possible to pay for their next fix.
		The remainder are usually impulsive thieves, sometimes students or youths -- and very often drunk -- who steal a bike to get home after their own was pinched.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /news/viewn.asp?id=GIS:N_kpvfmjqewb (398 words)

	Biography - 'Bicycle Thieves' Effect :: SatyajitRay.org
		Bicycle Thieves made a profound impression on Ray.
		Later, in the introduction of 'Our Films, Their Films', he wrote- "All through my stay in London, the lessons of Bicycle Thieves and neo-realist cinema stayed with me".
		The film had reconfirmed his conviction that it was possible to make realistic cinema with an almost entirely amateur cast and shooting at actual locations.
	www.satyajitray.org /bio/bicycle_thieves_effect.htm (248 words)

	Bicycle Thieves \| The Second Place Confession
		Bicycle Thieves will be featured on the TV show "MHz Spotlight" this Friday, September 29th at 8pm.
		Bicycle Thieves will be making their debut at the world-famous 9:30 Club tonight, Saturday, September 3rd.
		Bicycle Thieves will be playing in New York City this Saturday, January 31st at Luna Lounge.
	www.bicyclethieves.com /index.php?show=167 (1421 words)

	The Bicycle Thieves DVD Movie Review by AceGamez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		However, there's a catch - you have to own a bicycle to carry out the job, and so Antonio is frustrated that he pawned his bicycle in order to put food on the table.
		The Bicycle Thieves is a very well conceived film directed by Vittorio De Sica, and it's part of the neo-realist phase of cinema, where filmmakers decided to take the cameras out of the studios and onto the streets, to give a true life account of what these difficult times were like for so many people.
		The Bicycle Thieves is a simple tale of one man's need to find his stolen bicycle, without which he cannot earn a living and support his family, who are already very close to being in total poverty.
	www.acegamez.co.uk /reviews_dvd/The_Bicycle_Thieves_DVD.htm (817 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| The Bicycle Thief
		The Bicycle Thief (now being rereleased in a silvery new print) is a regular entry on most critics' lists of the best films ever made.
		During his first day on the job, Antonio's bicycle is stolen by a small gang of thieves.
		In The Bicycle Thief, we see all of those little grudging deeds that keep the world from collapsing under the weight of its own sorrow.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.10.98/bicyclethief-9849.html (812 words)

	EUFS: Bicycle Thieves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The new job is dependent upon his owning a bike and, needless to say, when his bicycle gets stolen his job is jepordised.
		Like many of the neo-realist directors, his primary aim in the Bicycle Thieves was to use the camera to show how people lived, whilst maintaining an objective distance.
		Bicycle Theives contains all the elements of typical neo-realism: harsh cinematography, poverty of the principle characters, urban squalor and, of course, a lack of judgement at the character's predicament.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/bicycle_thieves.html (239 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.
		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.
		Altogether Bicycle thieves is an amazing film and one worthy of the high praise it receives.
	www.inblackandwhite.com /ItalianNeorealismv2.0/neo-thief.html (1389 words)

	Ladri di biciclette (1948) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Plot Outline: A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job.
		Ricci finally finds a job after the war that requires a bicycle, but when his is stolen, he searches Rome for the one thing that he thinks can give his family happiness.
		Stark and gritty, the film comes off almost as a documentary, with unprofessional actors showing true skill as you come to really feel and hope for the characters.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0040522 (393 words)

	Bicycle Thieves - DVD & VHS - MovieMail UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Bicycle Thieves is Vittorio De Sica’s most celebrated film and one of the key works of the neo-realist movement, a deceptively simple tale of a working class family man, Antonio Ricci, struggling to make ends meet.
		Bicycle Thieves may no longer be the world as it is, but very vividly it is the world as it was.
		On his first day at work, the bicycle is stolen and Antonio, accompanied by his young son Bruno (Enzo Staiola) is forced to embark upon an anxious search for his stolen bicycle.
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/5857/Bicycle_Thieves (1176 words)

	PennTags /project/6857
		Unlike Shiel, who asserts that Bicycle Thieves is a humanist work, Tomasulo makes the claim that the film convey's "a quasi-mystical aura of Christian brotherhood," by pointing to the scene in the film which takes place at a charity ward because traditionally these institutions were associated with the Vatican.
		In referring specifically to Bicycle Thieves, Di Nolfo asserts that de Sica/Zavattini's work stands apart as a complex dramatization of a relationship between a father and son, set against the devastating poverty that affected the working class and poor the most.
		In addition to praising de Sica and the Bicycle Thieves, Verdone also gives a brief history of the rich history of the Cine's before the first world war, and the subsequent toll that the war took on the artistic output of Italian cinema due to the Italy's inability to access Hollywood film stock.
	tags.library.upenn.edu /project/6857 (2340 words)

	The Bicycle Thief
		Here we follow the fortune of Antonio, a family man whose wife pawns their household linens so that they can reclaim from the same pawnshop a bicycle that is required for a job he has been offered.
		The bicycle is stolen on Antonio's first day at work and he and his young son search the streets of Rome in hopes of recovering it.
		The events of the day, from a confrontation with a suspect and his neighbors, to a respite with an ill afforded restaurant meal, to a visit to a fortune teller have a cumulative effect, deepening our understanding of, and feelings for, father and young son.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/BicycleThief.htm (286 words)

	Bicycle Habitat - 10 Worst cities for bike theft
		The city with the "best" bicycle thieves, New York City, tops the list for the fourth year in a row.
		Over 326,000 bicycles were stolen in 1999 with the average price of more than $338.
		Its 5/8" shackle defeats thieves thinking it will be easy to cut through this part of the lock with bolt cutters, saws, hammers or any other common hand tool.
	bicyclehabitat.com /page.cfm?PageID=139 (1371 words)

	Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di Biciclette) Film Review - Time Out Film
		A working class Italian, out of work for some time, has the bicycle stolen which he needs for a new job; he and his son wander round Rome looking for it.
		Often hailed as an all-time classic, Bicycle Thieves tries to turn a simple story into a meditation on the human condition, but its greatest achievement is in bringing the lives of ordinary Italian people to the screen.
		Bicycle Thieves (aka Ladri Di Biciclette) (aka Ladri Di Biciclette)
	www.timeout.com /film/67733.html (214 words)

	Free-TermPapers.com - “A Birth Of A Nation” - “The Bicycle Thieves”
		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...truly a cinematic landmark.
	www.free-termpapers.com /tp/30/mlo36.shtml (1248 words)

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		Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the sour postwar climate in which it was made, Bicycle Thieves is steeped in a jaundiced and cynical worldview.
		The sweeping, lyrical majesty of his first bicycle ride to work and much later Antonio’s dismal, empty-handed return to the market square in the rain are both communicated in a sublime equation where musical emotion rounds out the visuals; in these scenes Bicycle Thieves achieves pure melo-drama.
		Bicycle Thieves’ finale obliges the title’s translation in plural, not singular, mode.
	www.bighousefilm.com /reviews/bicycle_thieves.htm (460 words)

	Sample Essays - Arts and Media Essays - Bicycle Thieves
		In the case of ‘Bicycle Thieves’ these people are Antonio Ricci and his son Bruno whose plight is portrayed by de Sica in the most compelling of fashions.
		From the first shot of ‘Bicycle Thieves’ it is communicated that Antonio is a solitary man. We are shown a crowd of people gathered round together, the shot is filled with people and movement.
		This image is later echoed by the hundreds of bicycle’s lined up as if to taunt Antonio for his irrelevance.
	www.degree-essays.com /essays/arts-mediaessays/bicycle-thieves.html (2034 words)

	Bicycle Thieves (aka Ladri de Biciclette, The Bicycle Thief)
		Bicycle Thieves was based on an original story by Luigi Bartolini which was shaped into a screenplay by Zavattini, director Vittorio de Sica and five other writers, all of whom strived to create that sense of authenticity.
		Bicycle Thieves is a powerful depiction of life in post-war Italy which argues for the dignity of the individual and decries social inequality.
		Bicycle Thieves would mark the pinnacle of neorealism's international success (winning a special Oscar in 1949).
	homepage.eircom.net /~obrienh/bt.htm (618 words)

	bicycle thieves - review at videovista
		Possibly the best-loved of all Italian neorealist films is Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (aka: Ladri di Biciclette), with its non pareil use of non-actors in the central roles of a father and his son.
		His theft of a bicycle and his almost immediate apprehension by a vengeful crowd is as powerful as anything in cinema, as is the successive scene involving Ricci's son.
		The scene in which Ricci's bicycle is stolen is handled with the panache one might expect in a more outwardly polished product, but this is the art that conceals art: De Sica's achievement is to render his technique invisible.
	www.videovista.net /reviews/mar06/bicyclet.html (543 words)

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