For those of you who receive the TCM (Turner Classic Movie) channel as part of your cable TV package, permit me to highly recommend that you tune in or record Saturday, May 7th at 8:00PM EST.
I first saw "The Bicycle Theif" ("Ladri di bicilette") several months ago and loved it, even though it is a somewhat bittersweet movie. Set in post-WWII Italy and made in 1948, it is a, "Simple, realistic tale of workingman whose job depends on his bicycle, and the shattering week he spends with his young son after it is stolen. An honest, beautiful film that deservedly earned a special Academy Award (before foreign films had a category of their own); one of the all-time classics." (http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/68597/The-Bicycle-Thief/ )
If you are interested in things Italian, then please be sure to mark your calendar.
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