Word: thief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actors are all amateurs, as in all of Ray's films. Ray first saw the potential of using untrained local people as actors when he saw de Sica's The Bicycle Thief before he made Apu. But although de Sica sometimes went through 30 takes of a single scene, Ray consistently obtains deeply emotional performances with little rehearsal or retake...
Other criticism focuses on the U.F.W.A.'s poorly run medical benefits program. Farm Worker Concepción Garcia claims that when she tried to collect a $300 maternity payment from the U.F.W.A., "I was told that I was ineligible because the grower I work for was a thief. I complained, and finally the person in the union office said I could have the money if I would steal his books...
...Bicycle Thief 6:15, 9:40; I Vitteloni 7:50, weekends...
...Bicycle Thief. This week's theme seems to be transportation. To us, Bicycle Thief is one of the most moving of all post-war pictures, particularly when the small boy Bruno learns that pizza is a working-class food...
...matter that he's a thief; for society, as Lelouch sees it, is but a grand game of cops and robbers anyway. Simon merely plays the game with society rather than within it. When Francoise asks him how he came by such a profession, he shrugs, "I come by mine the same way you do by yours, out of need or by choice." He is obviously the moral man. He is also the glamorous gangster. Given the style in which he executes the heist--posing as a rich ice cream manufacturer, vacationing in a Ritzy Cannes hotel, driving a Mercedes...