Bicycle Thieves [Criterion Collection]
Features:
- Disc one: The film
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Disc two: The supplements
- Working with De Sica, a collection of new interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi d'Amico, actor Enzo Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich
- Life as It Is: The Neorealist Movement in Italy, a new program on the history of Italian neorealism, featuring scholar Mark Shiel
- A 2003 documentary on screenwriter and longtime Vittorio De Sica collaborator Cesare Zavattini, directed by Carlo Lizzani
- Plus: A book featuring new essays by critic Godfrey Cheshire and filmmaker Charles Burnett, remembrances by De Sica and his collaborators, and classic writings by Zavattini and critic André Bazin
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- Disc #1 -- Bicycle Thieves: A Film By Vittorio De Sica
- Play the Movie
- Chapters
- Languages and Subtitles
- Original Italian Soundtrack
- English-Dubbed Soundtrack
- Subtitles On
- Subtitles Off
- Disc #2 -- Bicycle Thieves: A Film By Vittorio De Sica
- Working With De Sica
- Play
- Life as It Is: The Neorealist Movement in Italy
- Play
- Index
- Seven Key Works/Origins
- Postwar Subjects
- Stylistic Characteristics
- Response at Home and Abroad
- Crisis and Controversy
- Towards the "Art Cinema"
- Widespread Influence
- Cesare Zavattini
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- Index
- A Complete Filmmaker
- Beginnings and Success in Milan
- A Passion for Painting
- Exchanging Experiences / De Sica
- Postwar Period / Bicycle Thieves
- Miracle in Milan / New Collaborations
- Umberto D. / The Writer's Crisis
- "The Heart of the Situation"
- Subtitles
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- Disc #1 -- Bicycle Thieves: A Film By Vittorio De Sica
- 1. A Job for Ricci [5:16]
- 2. Wedding Linens [5:36]
- 3. The Fortune-Teller [3:23]
- 4. Preparations [3:34]
- 5. Disaster on the Job [4:09]
- 6. No Help From the Police [3:37]
- 7. Advice From a Friend [4:30]
- 8. "A Lighweight Fides, 1935 Model" [4:58]
- 9. "We're All Honest In Piazza Vittorio!" [3:41]
- 10. Rain on Sunday [4:04]
- 11. A Sighting [3:29]
- 12. A Plea in Church [8:02]
- 13. An Outburst and a Scare [1:21]
- 14. Eating Like Kings [2:23]
- 15. Right Away or Never [6:21]
- 16. Confrontation [4:33]
- 17. Nothing to Hide [6:19]
- 18. A Desparate Act [4:29]
- 19. Father and Son [5:47]
- 1. Color Bars [3:27]
Year released: 1948
MPAA Rating: [ ]
Format: Black & White
Length: 89
Sound: DD1
Subtitles: Eng
Studio: Criterion