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	The Icicle Thief
		The Icicle Thief is the answer to this oft asked question.
		In the film, Nichetti has created a neo-neo-realist film, The Icicle Thief, as an homage to the classics of the '40s.
		The Icicle Thief pokes fun at both the hyper-pathos of the neo-realists and the indifferent extravagance of modern society.
	www.glyphs.com /words/film/95/icicle.html (283 words)

	Golden Age Villains: The Icicle
		The Icicle suggested that Galazar jam radio broadcasting during the coup, to prevent the government from summoning outside assistance.
		In the meantime, the Icicle betrayed the general and raised the national treasury on a pillar of ice, where he could loot it at his leisure.
		By 1948, the Icicle had escaped and was contacted by the Wizard to join the second incarnation of the Injustice Society of the World.
	my.execpc.com /~icicle/ICICLE.html (1848 words)

	The Icicle Thief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Icicle Thief is a 1990 film by Italian director Maurizio Nichetti, created as a spoof of the neo-realism that predominated Italian cinema after World War II.
		The film tells the story of a director who is drawn into hi television while watching one of his films.
		The film was named after the classic Italian neo-realist epic, The Bicycle Thief, by Vittorio De Sica.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Icicle_Thief (154 words)

	The Icicle Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Icicle Thief is broadside against the industry snobbery that deifies De Sica and Rosselini in favour of new Italian talent, just as 1982's Domani si Balla critiqued commercial television news (years before CNN made its name).
		In The Icicle Thief Nichetti is the fictional, soul-searcing auteur of "Ladri di saponette", an affectionate re-working of De Sica's neo-realist classic, Ladri di bicyclette.
		One of the major criticisms to be levelled at The Icicle Thief is of its treatment of the period of neo-realism, and De Sica's film in particular.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /film/journal/filmrev/icicle-thief.htm (1379 words)

	‘The Icicle Thief’ (NR)
		But in "The Icicle Thief," a satirical fantasy about the way television butchers the movies it puts on, Italian film director Maurizio Nichetti "discovers" these insights as though for the first time.
		The parts of "Icicle" (the whole movie, that is) that bash the boob tube comprise the film's least enlightening elements; they're facile, almost sophomoric.
		The father has his head buried in the paper, the pregnant mother has her eyes on the screen but her mouth on the phone, the children play nonchalantly with Lego parts.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/theiciclethiefnrhowe_a0b299.htm (418 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for icicle
		icicle The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology...
		a tapering structure hanging like an icicle from the roof of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water.
		The chill of the Icicle Seafoods sale; uncertainty surrounding a change in ownership haunts residents of Icicle's hometown, Petersburg.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=icicle (646 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: The Icicle Thief \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		As the title implies, the heart of all this is a parody of Vittorio De Sica's Italian classic "The Bicycle Thief." But there are also gags about television, commercials, the modern Italian family, show-biz stereotypes and the intermingling of fantasy and reality.
		With his family subsisting on a diet of boiled cabbage, Antonio's wife aspires to be a singer in a local cabaret, his son takes odd jobs and his ignored little baby — who may remind "Simpsons" fans of little Maggie — gets into all kinds of dangerous situations from which she barely escapes.
		"The Icicle Thief" is not rated but would probably be in PG or PG-13 territory for some nudity in an Italian commercial and one character who spends the entire film in a skimpy bathing suit.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,849,00.html (448 words)

	Amazon.com: The Icicle Thief: DVD: Matteo Auguardi,Gero Caldarelli,Ernesto Calindri,Stefania Carbone,Lella Costa,Clara ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Maurizio Nichetti, who might (and might not) remind you of Roberto Benigni, stars as Anotonio Piermattei, the icicle thief, the protagonist of the movie within a movie, which is a Bicycle Thief-like tragic film that the TV people manage to mangle into a TV-like romantic comedy.
		Nichetti's The Icicle Thief is more like an identification as it attempts to stand with the art film solidly against commercialism.
		That this is a satire and spoof of TV (and not De Sica's Bicycle Thief or old-time neo-realism itself) is immediately apparent when the TV film critic has to ask the name of the film he is critiquing.
	www.amazon.com /Icicle-Thief-Matteo-Auguardi/dp/B00005JN0K (1369 words)

	The Icicle Thief Movie Review
		That film was directed by Bruno Bozetto, but now Nichetti is very much an auteur, writing and directing THE ICICLE THIEF in which he himself plays the two main roles.
		The title is a reference to Vittorio De Sica's BICYCLE THIEF with part missing, just as films are shown on television with part missing.
		This is true not just in the amazing scene in which a scantily-clad commercial actress breaks into the film world and has her color wiped off by Antonio as her dries her off.
	www.killermovies.com /i/theiciclethief/reviews/d7.html (644 words)

	Movie Info for The Icicle Thief on MSN Movies
		Director Maurizio Nichetti appears on-screen as a pompous filmmaker whose new film The Icicle Thief is the last-minute substitute for a more highly regarded "masterpiece" on an intellectual Italian TV program.
		The worst of it is, the viewers at home don't notice that anything's amiss--they've been so long inundated by commercial intrusions on theatrical films that they're grown numb to the artistic outrages perpetrated upon both director Nichetti and star Nichetti.
		The various clever cinematic tricks deployed by Nichetti in Icicle Thief are reminiscent of another highly regarded film classic: cartoon director Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=65761 (210 words)

	The Tech - Volume 113, Issue 8
		Nichetti's previous film, The Icicle Thief, also merged fantasy with reality by allowing Nichetti, there playing a director, to enter his movie when television commercial characters unexpectedly enter the film's plot.
		The Icicle Thief, with its clever, recursive structure, neatly skewered both rabid film buffs and Italian television.
		It is, but by no means is it the equal of The Icicle Thief, a comic gem.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V113/N8/volere.08a.html (551 words)

	bicycle-thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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)

	Buy The Icicle Thief at tlavideo.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A bungling director (Nichetti himself) is interviewed at a TV station before the screening of his newest film, a fl-and-white neorealist drama.
		The picture, a tender, affectionate tribute to The Bicycle Thief, tells the story of the many struggles of an unemployed man (Nichetti again), his beautiful wife and their son, an unbelievably hard-working boy of six.
		But the family finds that financial hardships are nothing in comparison to the confusion and disruption caused when a scantily clad, English-speaking platinum blonde in full color "falls" out of her bathing suit commercial and into their neorealist lives.
	www.tlavideo.com /details/product_details.cfm?id=109157&c=-1&v=1&sn=1433 (161 words)

	Dept of Foreign Languages & Literatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bicycle Thief - By Vittorio De Sica (DVD- 89 mn).The Bicycle Thief is Everyman's search for dignity-it is as though the soul of a man had been filmed.
		The bicycle thief is about a man, a worker, who must have a bike in order to work at his job.
		He is desperate, pawns everything to gain his machine, goes to work, has the thing stolen from him while his back is turned, and then goes on a search through Rome to find it.
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/FLL/lab/it.html (375 words)

	TroyRutter.com - VHS : The Icicle Thief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This fascinating Italian film (with English subtitles) by Maurizio Nichetti works on several levels at once--and is extremely funny on all of them.
		At heart, it's a satire of the kind of neorealism of such films as The Bicycle Thief, which it spoofs.
		The film is clever and visually arresting; its central effect--the Technicolor woman in the middle of the monochromatic movie--is commonplace in TV commercials now but was considered startling when this film came out.
	www.troyrutter.com /6302130395/The_Icicle_Thief.htm (441 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - The Icicle Thief
		Writer/director Maurizio Nichetti (who also appears in the dual roles of a neorealist director and his star) presents a tour de force of film-within-a-film plotting, style and imagination.
		As a fictitious director fumes, his serious fl-and-white film (a hilarious parody of Vittorio De Sica's classic The Bicycle Thief, 1947) is shown in butchered form on TV, interrupted at its most sensitive moments by crass color commercials.
		Then, after a power failure at the TV studio, the film resumes, but with fl-and-white and color--and fiction and reality--magically merged.
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=59808-1-utc (168 words)

	Foreign Language Multimedia Center > Video > Italian
		Is about a bus driver whose wife discovers her husbands twin and schemes to switch the two men.
		By Vittorio De Sica (DVD 89 min).The Bicycle Thief is Everyman's search for dignity-it is as though the soul of a man had been filmed.
		In The Icicle Thief, Nichetti blasts away at the small screen by magically intermingling the hyper reality of commercials with the tragedy of a bleak vintage drama.
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/FLL/lab/italianvideo.html (335 words)

	Ladri di saponette (1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Italian title of this newer movie, "Ladri di saponette", is a play on "Ladri di Biciclette"; it means "The Soap Thieves", and this apparently refers to the dialogue where Maria tells Bruno not to use up all the soap when washing his hands, remarking to Antonio that he must be eating it.
		The English title of the newer movie, "The Icicle Thief", has no relation to the Italian title but instead is a play on "The Bicycle Thief".
		A film critic who uses the notes he prepared for another film tries to evaluate and analyze the film the television program is playing (titled "The Icicle Thief"), while the director in the studio sputters in disbelief.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0097702 (512 words)

	Ladri di saponette (1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Italian title of this newer movie, "Ladri di saponette", is a play on "Ladri di Biciclette"; it means "The Soap Thieves", and this apparently refers to the dialogue where Maria tells Bruno not to use up all the soap when washing his hands, remarking to Antonio that he must be eating it.
		The English title of the newer movie, "The Icicle Thief", has no relation to the Italian title but instead is a play on "The Bicycle Thief".
		Being a great admirer of The Bicycle Thief, I found this movie hilarious, especially during the parts Nichetti was watching his film go out of control.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0097702 (486 words)

	Zelda Universe
		Remove the Goron Mask and enter the left door (Small Key One required), then go to the far end of the room and Bomb the cracked wall to enter the new passage.
		In the next room, shoot all the icicles hanging from the ceiling with arrows to clear the pedestals below of ice blocks, then jump from pedestal to pedestal to reach the large platform with the snow boulder.
		Enter the left door (Small Key required), then go to the far end of the room and Bomb the cracked wall to enter the new passage to the second floor.
	www.zelda.com /universe/game/majora/walk.jsp (13247 words)

	MetaChat - Paging Matteo.
		If it is, I'm curious as to the Criterion Collection's rationale on calling the film Bicycle Thieves instead of leaving the ambiguity.
		That's interesting...it actually changes the meaning of the title quite a bit, and thus has an impact on the overall effect of the film.
		It becomes not about one thief, but about a world of theives.
	metachat.org /index.php/2007/01/27/paging_matteo (328 words)

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		IN the Icicle thief we saw the culmination of the political,movement with Knocked’s pastiche that worked as a summary isn essence of the various theories and approaches that had been popularized in the preceding two decades -
		Icicle thief shows the issue of relative truth from the question of perspective - suggesting that perspective determines the relative truth -
		Today however we look at Il Posting with relied on metaphor as a n element that determined relative truth and the which also looks to the Nietzchian recognition of the power of metaphor and speech to effect liberation.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/watt/cinemanotes3.html (2385 words)

	McLuhan Studies Premiere Issue: Transmedial Migrations: Italian Literature Transformed and Transported (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		That price is the subject of Maurizio Nichetti's Ladri di saponette (1989), The Icicle Thief in America, where it has triumphed.
		That, in essence, is the plot of The Icicle Thief, except that in Nichetti's film the two worlds - that of the story (a "remake" of De Sica's classic, lovingly shot in sepia-toned fl and white) and that of the commercials in brilliant colour - become hopelessly intertwined.
		He has written and directed several films, most recently The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, which is full of Dantesque allusions, and Prospero's Books.
	www.epas.utoronto.ca /mcluhan-studies/v1_iss1/1_1art13.htm (3364 words)

	The Zenith the Albino Page
		Craving excitement because it brings forgetfulness; thrust into crime by his abnormality, by his illimitable egotism, by the caprice of his recalcitrant nature, he finds himself involved in the quest for a mysterious something on the finding of which life--and more than life--depends.
		Zenith, though a criminal many times over ("he was wanted for more crimes than there was room upon a charge sheet to tabulate"), did on occasion help the police, but only to catch some truly nasty and brutal criminals, the kind who were without honour.
		Usually, though, he was a thief, the "prince of crooks." He was responsible for an interesting variety of crimes, usually finance-related; on one occasion in the early 1920s Zenith panicked the stock market by having a group of newspapers print a false declaration of war, thus aiding Zenith's bank accounts by no small measure.
	www.geocities.com /jessnevins/zenith.html (4661 words)

	icicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		How are the family relations presented in the film?
		Compare the family in the film with the audience family on the one hand and the family in The Bicycle Thief.
		Are the mothers in the film and out of the film criticized?
	www.eng.fju.edu.tw /Literary_Criticism/postmodernism/examples/icicle.html (164 words)

	Film Studies
		We devote a great deal of attention to De Sica’s contributions to neorealism, including Shoeshine (1946), Bicycle Thief (1948), Miracle in Milan (1951), and Umberto D (1952), in addition to De Santis’s Bitter Rice and Visconti’s La terra trema (1948).
		The course also includes a study of the movement’s afterlife in Bellissima (Visconti, 1951), and the recent revisitations of neorealism in Icicle Thief (Nichetti, 1989) and Celluloide (Lizzani, 1996), before concluding with Gianni Amelio’s Stolen Children (1992), which has been hailed as the harbinger of a realist revival in the 1990s.
		This course surveys the British film tradition, emphasizing overlaps with literature, drama, and art; visual modernism; documentary’s role in defining national identity; “heritage” filmmaking and alternative approaches to tradition; auteur and actors’ cinema.
	www.yale.edu /bulletin/html/grad/film.html (1328 words)

	Cinequest VII luna
		But now unfettered to live on its own, to be alive for the first time, has given it a chance to see movies, find an apartment of its own and most importantly fall in love.
		Director Maurizio Nichetti (The Icicle Thief), one of the most popular and talented filmmakers in the history of Italian Cinema, has concocted one of the most charming cinematic experiences of the year with Luna e l'altra.
		His incredible comprehension of how to create believable, whimsical characters does not just reveal his capable understanding of comedic elements, but his mastery of them.
	www.cinequest.org /97/catalog/luna.html (279 words)

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