This article originally ran as part of our listener-voted Top 100 Movies. One war over, another just starting. In postwar Italy, times are tough. Jobs are scarce. If you can get one, you do what you can to keep it....
Vittorio De Sica’s best known work is Bicycle Thieves, about a working man on an increasingly desperate quest to maintain his livelihood and his ability to provide for his family in a society where even those who manage to get by do so...
I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. Bicycle Thieves is a film...