Vittorio.De.Sica.Bicycle.Thieves.1948.DVDR.2DiSC.D2.DVD9.CRiTERiON.nfo
LADRI DI BICICLETTE (1948)
AKAs:
Bicycle Thieves (UK)
The Bicycle Thief (USA)
The Bicycle Thieves (UK)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/
User rating: 8.4/10 (22,520 votes)
Top 250: #93
Criterion Collection # 374
http://www.criterion.com/films/210
DVD Release Date: February 13, 2007
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Description: Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica's Academy Award winning Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) defined an era in cinema. In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle, his main means of transportation for work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and dazzlingly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodied all the greatest strengths of the neorealist film movement in Italy: emotional clarity, social righteousness, and brutal honesty.
READ:
Bicycle Thieves: A Passionate Commitment to the Real
by Godfrey Cheshire
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/467
Bicycle Thieves: Ode to the Common Man
by Charles Burnett
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1090
Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 5.95 + 7.52 GB - Untouched Copy
Time (main feature): 93 minutes
Color: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 | Non-Anamorphic
Sound: Italian Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles: Optional English
This new high-definition digital transfer was created on a Spirit Datacine from a 35mm duplicate negative. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, and scratches were removed using the MTI Digital Restoration System. To maintain optimal image quality through the compression process, the picture on this dual-layer DVD-9 was encoded at the highest-possible bit rate for the quantity of material included. The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from the 35mm optical soundtrack, and audio restoration tools were used to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and crackle. The Dolby Digital 1.0 signal will be directed to the center channel on surround sound systems, but some viewers may prefer to switch to two-channel playback for a wider dispersal of the mono sound.
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:
# New, restored high-definition digital transfer.
# Working with De Sica, a collection of new interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi d'Amico, actor Enzo Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich.
# Life as It Is, a new program on the history of Italian neorealism, featuring scholar Mark Shiel.
# A 2003 documentary on screenwriter and longtime Vittorio De Sica collaborator Cesare Zavattini, directed by Carlo Lizzani.
# Optional English-dubbed soundtrack.
# New and improved English subtitle translation.
DVD Studio: Criterion
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