Fancy Movie Time #16: Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Added 2024-03-29 18:00:09 +0000 UTCOn this episode of Fancy Movie Time with Brian and A.J., the Fancy Lads grab their bikes and cycle straight into the nightmare of post-war Italy as they cover Vittorio De Sica's neo-realist classic: Bicycle Thieves. Does the film's uncompromising vision and fully-realized world make it a Fancy Feast? Or does its commitment to realism and downer ending make it a Failure to Fancy? One thing's for sure: this is the most Italian episode yet.
Sight and Sound Video Essay: "What is neorealism?"
Comments
I'd like to watch this movie, but I worry it will be too dark, like Thief or Thief 2
Jimmy McMillan
2024-07-19 12:04:57 +0000 UTCAs a Chicagoan I can confirm this city is half sleazy and disgusting (complimentary) and half suburban-brain psychos who absolutely would censor every movie
Thom Coté
2024-04-09 15:36:39 +0000 UTCHopefully that one passes the Bechdel Test. I was hopeful for Hercules when a second woman showed up on screen and I marked that down on my scorecard, but things didn't work out in the end. smh
Dergon
2024-04-02 22:14:51 +0000 UTCMakes a nice double feature with Neil LaBute's Wicker Man, where Nicholas Cage learns the opposite
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2024-04-02 21:59:00 +0000 UTCI'm on my own "journey into cinema history." Last night's film was Hercules and the Amazon Women where Kevin Sorbo learned that women are people.
Dergon
2024-04-02 20:42:06 +0000 UTCYou might be interested in Stray Dog (1949), an early Kurosawa detective film set in immediately post-war Japan. It has some incredible second unit location shooting in war-ravaged Tokyo shot by Ishiro Honda (Godzilla, Mothra)
BarFly
2024-04-01 13:10:16 +0000 UTCIn the meantime, check out the commercials for Episode #8 - Blackgaardology, Episode #16 - Odyssey Salutes the Troops! and Episode #23- FLCL for MUCH more of A.J.'s perfect Italian accent.
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2024-03-31 20:09:52 +0000 UTCI hope I don't have to wait for the Umberto D. episode to hear more of AJ's problematic It*lian accent
FamiCommie
2024-03-31 19:32:31 +0000 UTCyou should do the movie version of the Crucible cause a friend of mine is a child extra
John Leavitt
2024-03-31 05:37:14 +0000 UTCThis is far and away one of my favorite movies of all time. I watched it in an italian neorealist film studies class and it really turned me on to the idea that the tradition of the national cinema institute creates some incredible works of art.
Jordan Y Clementi
2024-03-29 18:43:24 +0000 UTC
