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Bicycle Thieves: So Simple, So Basic, So Completely Unattainable.

Bicycle Thieves: So Simple, So Basic, So Completely Unattainable.

Released: November 1948. Directed by: Vittorio De Sica Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri, Gino Saltamerenda, Giulio Chiari, Vittorio Antonucci, Michele Sakara, Carlo Jachino as A Beggar. Few films are so simple, yet so profound, honest, emotional, and 76 years after its original release, so brutally relevant today. Bicycle Thieves is that movie. The story is simple, Antonio Ricci (LamBerto Maggiorani) is an unemployed man with a wife and two small children. Antonio gets a job, but…

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: Tampico, the Perfect 1st Act.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: Tampico, the Perfect 1st Act.

Released: 1948 Dir.: John Huston               I first saw The Treasure of the Sierra Madre while I was studying film production in the late 1980s. It wasn’t part of the course, it just happened to be on TV, so I recorded it and watched it when I had some free time. It struck me during that first viewing how distinct the first act of the film is, and with further study how beautifully it establishes the characters and foreshadows events…

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