Vittorio De Sica Articles

Lamberto Maggiorani in Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves Gregory Peck TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Father's Day Movies In Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief / Bicycle Thieves (1948), non-professional actor Lamberto Maggiorani plays an impoverished husband and father who uses his bike to put up posters of Rita Hayworth in Gilda all over Rome. But then, his bicycle gets stolen. How will he support his [...]

Sophia Loren ca. 1958 Sophia Loren will be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday, May 4, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. "An Academy Tribute to Sophia Loren" will feature film clips and personal remarks from friends and colleagues, concluding with an onstage chat with Loren, the first performer to win an Oscar for [...]

Flike, Carlo Battisti in Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D. UMBERTO D. Review Part I Still, Vittorio De Sica's film is most of all about human indifference to suffering: The sons of a dying man laugh at his bedside in the hospital; the pound workers blithely take the dogs to their deaths; Umberto's old co-workers look askance at him — as if he's diseased — when [...]

UMBERTO D. (1952) Direction: Vittorio De Sica Cast: Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari Screenplay: Cesare Zavattini Oscar Movies Flike, Carlo Battisti, Umberto D. By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica Lost between the glare of The Bicycle Thief (1948) and his later films with Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica's 1952 drama Umberto D. stands as an almost forgotten masterpiece of Italian neorealism and one of the [...]