Cool Stuff: Limited Edition Posters For ‘The Bicycle Thief’

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In the limited edition poster game, you pretty much know the drill. You’re going to get really nice art for the same few dozen movies. It just so happens that movies like Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Star Wars, Jaws, etc. are the ones that most influenced the current crop of professional artists. In fact, it’s pretty rare that you get a piece of art for a movie that was made before 1975, let alone something foreign.

Enter FAMP Art, a new limited edition art company who is hoping to create works not from the regular hit films. They’re focusing only on the best in independent and foreign cinema. They checked both boxes with their first poster for City of God and next week, they’ll release a regular and variant for Vittorio De Sica‘s 1948 masterpiece, The Bicycle Thief… READ MORE AT SLASH FILM

Two Hundred Thousand Dirty

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Italian Film Series at The Civic Theatre

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Bicycle Thief and 8½ Coming to Corinth’s Hometown This Summer, Morning Call

ITALIAN FILM SERIES

“The Bicycle Thief,” Tuesday July 22: Academy Award-winning 1948 film, directed by Vittorio De Sica, follows a man in poverty-stricken postwar Rome whose bicycle is stolen on his first day of a new job. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.

“8½,” Aug. 5: Federico Fellini film of 1963 stars Marcello Mastroianni as Fellini’s alter ego Guido Anselmi, a film director overwhelmed by the large-scale production he has undertaken as he juggles romantic relationships.

Details: Films at 7:30 p.m. at Civic’s 19th Street Theatre, 527 N. 19th St., Allentown. In in Italian with English subtitles. Tickets: $7; $5, Civic Theatre and Allentown Art Museum members. www.civictheatre.com, 610-432-0888.

Morning Call Article: Corinth Films

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Corinth Films of Riegelsville distributes classics such as Fellini’s ‘8½’ and new movies

Riegelsville has a population of fewer than 900 but nestled in the teeny Bucks Country community is a world-class operation. The father/son team of John Poole and John Poole Jr. run Corinth Films, a distributor of classic cinema and new theatrical titles. From their offices in Riegelsville, the Corinth team dispatch prints of vintage films like Italian director Federico Fellini’s “8 ½” and “I Vitelloni” to movie houses, festivals and TV stations all over North America.

More recently, Poole Jr. has amped up the distributing of new movies. Since 2009, the company has issued about two dozen new movies both theatrically and on DVD. Acquired at international movie bashes such as the Berlin Film Festival and the American Film Market, Corinth’s contemporary titles include Mika Kaurismaki’s dark comedy “Road North”; James Rasin’s documentary “Beautiful Darling” about transgender pioneer Candy Darling; Marleen Gorris’ “Within the Whirlwind,” the story of a teacher (Emily Watson) swept up on in the horror of one of Joseph Stalin’s purges; and Volker Schlondorff’s “Calm At Sea,” the saga of French Resistance fighter Guy Moquet (Leo Paul Salmain)…READ MORE AT MCALL.COM

‘Policeman’ Theatrical Release June 13, 2014

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Nadav Lapid’s political thriller ‘Policeman’, follows Yaron, an elite special operations squad leader who is a part of the Israeli Defense Military’s Anti-Terrorism unit. Yaron and his team are true patriots; they love their country, theif families, and each other. Yaron is ambitious and energetic, but a cyclone of emotions consumes him. His wife is expecting their first child, and the failing health of a team member weighs on his soul as the men content with an unforgivable accident resulting from the miscalculation during a recent rescue mission, and the price that must be paid as a result of this.

‘Policeman’ opens June 13, 2014 at The Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, The Film Society Lincoln Center, 144 W. 65th Street, Manhattan, NY www.filmlinc.com; Arena Cinema, 1625 N. Las Palmas Ave, Hollywood, CA www.arenasreen.com.