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    C | R Film Series: The Bicycle Thief

    C | R Film Series: The Bicycle Thief

    Presented by Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

    March 30, 2010

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    In 1952, a poll by Sight & Sound of filmmakers and critics was taken. From that survey, the Italian neorealistic film, The Bicycle Thief, was deemed the greatest film of all-time. The British Film Institute in 2005 ranked The Bicycle Thief as one of the top 10 films “you should see by the age of 14.” The movie tells the story of a poor, unemployed man searching the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle, which he needs to be able to work. The picture is also in the Vatican’s Best Films List for portraying humanistic values. Roger Ebert wrote, “It is a simple, powerful film about a man who needs a job … A man loves his family and wants to protect and support them. Society makes it difficult. Who cannot identify with that?” Earned a special Academy Award in 1949, seven years before the Foreign Language Film was created. Arthur Miller called the movie, “a lyrical masterpiece … writing, "The Bicycle Thief is Everyman's search for dignity -- it is as though the soul of a man had been filmed."


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        Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

        30 West Dale Street
        Colorado Springs, CO 80903

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        FAC Members $5; non-members $7

        Info Phone: 719.634.5583

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        March 30, 2010

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        Cash bar opens at 5 p.m.; movie starts at 6 p.m.

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