Bicycle Thieves

November 29, 2010
Bicycle Thieves
Call Number: DVD00677
by Cesare Zavattini; Oreste Biancoli; Carlo Montuori; Vittorio De Sica; Lamberto Maggiorani; Enzo Staiola; Lianella Carell; Alessandro Cicognini; Luigi Bartolini; Produzioni De Sica S.A.; Criterion Collection (Firm); Image Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Italian
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y]. : Criterion Collection : Image Entertainment, ©2007.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1948 (89 mins). “Restored high-definition digital transfer”–Container. Special features: “Working with De Sica” featurette with D’Amico, Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich; “Life as it is: The neorealist movement in Italy,” featurette with film scholar Mark Shiel; Documentary by Carlo Lizzani on longtime De Sica collaborator and neorealist Cesare Zavattini. Program notes on container insert include the following essays : “A passionate commitment to the real” by film critic Godfrey Cheshire, “Ode to the common man” by filmmaker Charles Burnett, “Some ideas on the cinema” by neorealist writer Cesare Zavattini, “Bicycle Thieves” by film critic Andre Bazin, and the following remembrances : “My secret” by director De Sica, “But this is Maria” by actor Carell, “We were always on the street” by Luisa Alessandri, “The smallest detail” by Sergio Leone, “Many friends, much noise” by Manuel De Sica, “Money kills the imagination” by Maria Mercader.
Summary: A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job.
OCLC #: 77216072
Added: November 29, 2010
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Umberto D.

May 11, 2009
Umberto D.
Call Number: VHS00806
by Carlo Battisti; Maria Pia Casilio; Lina Gennari; Vittorio De Sica; Cesare Zavattini; Rizzoli Films.;
Format: VHS
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Embassy Home Entertainment, ©1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1952 (89 mins.); Nominated for one 1957 Academy Award;
Summary: This is the story of an elderly man, living alone on a small pension, who is desperate to maintain his dignity and to hold onto his dog.
OCLC #: 14776302
Added: May 11, 2009
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Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini

May 5, 2009
The Garden of Finzi-Continis
Call Number: VHS00763
by Vittorio De Sica; Lino Capolicchio; Dominique Sanda; Helmut Berger; Fabio Testi; Romolo Valli; Giorgio Bassani; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1970 (94 mins.); Based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani; Nominated for two 1971 Academy Awards;
Summary: In Italy in 1938, Mussolini’s anti-Semitic edicts begin to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them are the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden.
OCLC #: 37711510
Added: May 5, 2009
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Boccaccio ’70

April 14, 2009
Boccaccio ’70
Call Number: DVD00074
by Vittorio De Sica; Carlo Ponti; Federico Fellini; Luchino Visconti; Sophia Loren; Giovanni Boccaccio; Films Concordia (Paris, Francia); NoShame Films.;
Format: DVD
Language: Italian or English
Publisher: [Roma, Italia] : NoShame Films, ©2004.
Notes: Originally released in 1962 (208 mins.); edition includes extensive poster and still gallery, theatrical trailers, archival footage and collectible booklet;  Based on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Summary: Four satires on morality, prudery, and hypocrisy.
Also: See Pier Paolo Pasolini directed Il Decameron (DVD00316)
OCLC #: 318364833
Added: April 14, 2009
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La Ciociara

January 20, 2009
Two Women
Call Number: DVD00556 Copy 1
DVD00556 Copy 2
DVD00556 Copy 3
by Sophia Loren; Raf Vallone; Eleanora Brown; Jean-Paul Belmondo; Vittorio De Sica; Carlo Ponti; Alberto Moravia; Sostar, S.A.
Format: DVD
Language: Copy 1: Italian with English subtitles; Copy 2 & 3: Dubbed in English
Publisher: Copy 1: [United States] : Miracle Pictures, ©2003.; Copy 2: [Garden Grove, CA] : Vina Distributor, 1960.; Copy 3: [United States] : Miracle Pictures, [2003]
Notes: Originally released in 1960 (110 mins.); Based on the novel, La Ciociara, by Alberto Moravia; Nominated for one 1961 Academy Award;
Summary: In Italy, a woman and her 13-year-old daughter become the focus of an attack by retreating German soldiers in World War II. When the mother recovers consciousness, she finds her daughter in a complete state of shock.
OCLC #: Copy 1: 55130116; Copy 2: 221658206; Copy 3: 233975079
Added: January 20, 2009
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Indiscretion of an American Wife

January 12, 2009
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Call Number: VHS00744
by David O Selznick; Vittorio De Sica; Truman Capote; Jennifer Jones; Montgomery Clift; Columbia Broadcasting System, inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l. : Interglobal Video, 1985]
Notes: Originally released in 1954 (63 mins.); Based on the story by Cesare Zavattini; Nominated for one 1955 Academy Award;
Summary: Set almost entirely within Rome’s famous Terminal Station, this film is a love story of a couple who have only a few hours to decide whether she, an American wife, will return to her husband in the U.S. or remain with her lover.
Also: Second copy of this film in the two-film set Legendary Hollywood Stars: Montgomery Clift: Indiscretion of an American Wife (VHS00422).
OCLC #: 15151704
Added: January 12, 2009
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Montgomery Clift: Indiscretion of an American Wife

November 26, 2008
Legendary Hollywood Stars: Montgomery Clift: Indiscretion of an American Wife
Call Number: VHS00422
by Montgomery Clift; Jennifer Jones; Gino Cervi; Richard Beymer; Vittorio De Sica; Cesare Zavattini; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; EDDE Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : EDDE Entertainment, 1995.
Notes: Originally released between 1953 (63 mins.); Edition contains two films over two videocassettes; Nominated for one 1954 Academy Award;
Summary: An adulterous wife meets her lover one more time. Between trains, they have only two hours to decide if they have a future together.
Also: Edition also contains The Big Lift (VHS00422); Second copy of this film can be found at VHS00744; 
OCLC #: 39382803
Added: November 26, 2008
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