Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 4

Bicycle Thieves (1948; Dir.: Vittorio De Sica)

Daniel and Corky walk the streets of Sacramento in a futile search for a film more achingly beautiful than the Italian Neo-Realist masterpiece Bicycle Thieves.

BICYCLE THIEVES  FACTS & FIGURES

Theatrical debut: Nov. 24, 1948

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics List Ranking: #41 (tied)

IMDB synopsis: “In post-war Italy, a working-class man’s bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.”

CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS

Original trailer for Bicycle Thieves

The restaurant scene

The heartbreaking final sequence

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

Battleship Potemkin (1925; Dir.: Sergei Eisenstein)

IMDB synopsis: “In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel’s officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.”

Our review of Battleship Potemkin comes out on Jan. 9, 2024!

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