Bicycle Thieves: Screening & Film Society Talk
Schedule
Sun, 13 Apr, 2025 at 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
1014 King Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Ontario L8S 1L4 | Hamilton, ON
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We're excited to present Bicycle Thieves, one of the top-voted selections in the ‘World Cinema Masterworks’ category of our 2025 Audience Poll, on Sunday April 13 screening at 1:00pm!🎬Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award-winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and brutal honesty.
Presented in Italian with English subtitles.
⭐Following the screening of this film, there will be a meeting of The Westdale Film Society! Open to The Westdale Members of any membership level, we invite you to stay after the screening as host Jeffrey Bender leads a casual, guided discussion with your fellow film lovers about the movie, stories and context about its creation, and the experience of watching it in on the big screen in our historic cinema.
Coffee and refreshments will also be served!☕🧁
(Please note that the encore screening on Mon. Apr. 14 at 7:00pm will not include a Film Talk or Film Society meeting)
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Where is it happening?
1014 King Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Ontario L8S 1L4Event Location & Nearby Stays:
