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Article: Film institute pays tribute to `The Bicycle Thief': De Sica's classic tale.(Arts)(Movies)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- April 4, 1999
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Orson Welles once drew a useful distinction between his flamboyant and self-consciously pictorial style as a movie director and an alternative that seemed to defy his temperament or powers of invention. Namely, the haunting immediacy and transparency achieved by Vittorio de Sica in two movies he directed in the aftermath of World War II, "Shoeshine" and "The Bicycle Thief."
Asked to evaluate his own work while appearing at a retrospective in England in the early 1950s, Welles replied that he had "no peer with the camera." But he said he felt professionally humbled by the quality of illusion in de Sica's so-called neo-realistic classics, in which "the camera ...
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De Sica, Vittorio.(Reference Source)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;
January 1, 1993 ;
407 words
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