Bicycle Thieves is a 1948 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica and widely regarded as the best known work of Italian neorealism, a movement that had informally begun three years earlier with Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City. It received an Academy Honorary Award in 1950, and in Sight and Sound magazine's 1952 poll of filmmakers and critics it was named the greatest film ever made; it has remained in the poll's rankings since, placing 33rd among critics and 10th among directors in the 2012 edition. Roger Ebert later wrote that it is so well entrenched as an official masterpiece that it is startling to revisit it and realize it is still alive.
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Why is Bicycle Thieves also called The Bicycle Thief?
The Italian title is plural, but a 1949 New York Times review called it The Bicycle Thief and that English title stuck.
The original Italian title, Ladri di biciclette, literally translates as thieves of bicycles, and both words are plural. When the film was screened in the United States in 1949, New York Times critic Bosley Crowther referred to it as The Bicycle Thief, and that became the title by which it was known in English. Some purists have criticized that title as a poor translation of the plural Italian, while the San Francisco Chronicle critic Bob Graham defended it when the film was re-released in the late 1990s. The 2007 Criterion Collection release in North America uses the title Bicycle Thieves.
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Bicycle Thieves is the best-known work of Italian neorealism, a movement that informally began with Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945) and brought a new degree of realism to Italian cinema.
Bicycle Thieves, Description, original language
Bicycle Thieves is a 1948 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica and widely regarded as the best known work of Italian neorealism, a movement that had informally begun three years earlier with Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City.
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Academy Honorary Award.
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Wikidata P166 (award received): National Board of Review Award for Best Film.
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Wikidata P166 (award received): National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
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Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette), also known as The Bicycle Thief, is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica.
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Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette), also known as The Bicycle Thief, is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica.
Created By: Vittorio De Sica, Infobox: director
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