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Sunday, November 15, 2009

MOVIE: The Bicycle Thief

It's time to see The Bicycle Thief again, Vittorio De Sica's classic film from 1949---making 2009  the movie's 60th anniversary. The movie won an Academy Award for Outstanding Foreign Language Film in 1949. Powerful, emotional, bare bones black and white cinema.