Word: desica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bicycle Thief. Not much substantive sticks in my mind about this simple DeSica film about a man and his son and their search for a stolen bicycle--only the glow I was left with as I left the theater. Perhaps I'm getting my genres crossed, but this movie would seem to fall under the heading of "Italian realist film;" at any rate, the scenery is all real, the camerawork is underplayed and the construction is perfectly scaled. Charming may be the best adjective. But this is all far too vague for such a touchingly accessible film, so make...
Levine, who was billed as the "last tycoon," encountered initial major success with the promotion of "Hercules" in 1959, which grossed over $9 million. He was the first to distribute foreign films on a national scale, and he promoted a number of Vittorio DeSica's films including "Two Women...
...dignity of objects, whether mechanical or human, their capacity to deal with respective endowments. The few times he speaks beyond these points are when he deals with families or groups in society that transcend this individual impotence. "The Family" (Luzzara, Italy 1953) evokes complicated reality and emotions of deSica's film. The Bicycle Thief, as the barefobted man on the right with eyes downcast leans against his bicycle and the stone wall behind him. The elements of the picture are related more than abstractly; the members of the family stand or sit, gaze or turn their heads with an awareness...
...Bicycle Thiel (Vittorio DeSica) and Sky Over Holland. Orson Welles Cinema...
...Goin' Down the Road owes much to the early DeSica in its attempts to communicate the feeling of a life-style by approaching its subject in its own terms, on its own grounds, avoiding the poetic affects a detached narrative viewpoint allows. It is the characters', not the director's moods we see being indulged. But Peter and Joey are simply not complex enough to carry a feature-length film...