The Bicycle Thief

[Pierangelo]

Friday, February 5 1999

'The Bicycle Thief' Returns in All Its Power
by Kevin Thomas, Times Staff Writer

Kino International, one of the most enterprising film distributors in the
country, is marking the 50th anniversary of Vittorio De Sica's "The Bicycle
Thief" with its re-release on a new 35-mm print. This classic, a landmark in
Italian Neo-Realism, is a perennial on critics' all-time great films lists
and is likely to remain so. As a style, Neo-Realism continues to flourish in
Third World countries as a way of expressing the plight of the poor and
oppressed in a manner that is gritty yet poetic.

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