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Bicycle Thieves – Canon Fodder Episode 4

Bicycle Thieves – Canon Fodder Episode 4

Update: 2023-12-26
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Alberto (Lamberto Maggiorani) hanging a poster of Rita Hayworth in Bicycle Thieves (1948).


Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 4


Bicycle Thieves (1948; Dir.: Vittorio De Sica)


Daniel and Corky walk the streets of Sacramento in a futile search for a film more achingly beautiful than the Italian Neo-Realist masterpiece Bicycle Thieves.


BICYCLE THIEVES  FACTS & FIGURES


Theatrical debut: Nov. 24, 1948


Sight & Sound  2022 Critics List Ranking: #41 (tied)


IMDB synopsis: “In post-war Italy, a working-class man’s bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.”


CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS


Original trailer for Bicycle Thieves


The restaurant scene


The heartbreaking final sequence


NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE


Battleship Potemkin (1925; Dir.: Sergei Eisenstein)


IMDB synopsis: “In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel’s officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.”


Our review of Battleship Potemkin comes out on Jan. 9, 2024!


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Bicycle Thieves – Canon Fodder Episode 4

Bicycle Thieves – Canon Fodder Episode 4

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