Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 Bicycle Thieves is a seminal piece of Italian Neorealist cinema. The film paints an intimate portrait of working class struggles and dynamics between father and son. Bicycle Thieves communicates its themes through the subtly of real life, with all roles performed by non-professional actors, a staple of Italian Neorealism. Every part of the Bicycle Thieves feels like it can and has occurred in our world, which is one of the reasons why the film is so…
John Ford’s classic 1939 western Stagecoach is perhaps one of the most influential westerns ever made. One of its biggest accomplishments is its role in launching John Wayne’s career into Western Superstardom. Wayne would become a Hollywood mainstay in a decades long career, and his iconic introduction into Stagecoach is where it all came from. This was also the film Orson Wells said to be “textbook filmmaking” who reportedly watched this film more than 40 times.
So what makes this…