Italian child actor Enzo Staiola, best known for playing, at the age of 9 years old, the sad-faced son Bruno Ricci in Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 Neo-realist masterpiece Ladri di Biciclette (Bicycle ...

ROME, Italy -- Enzo Staiola, the former Italian child actor known for his starring role in Oscar-winning film “Bicycle Thieves,” has died. He was 85. Staiola died Wednesday at a hospital in Rome, ...

The problem with the idea of an accepted movie canon—not to mention the abhorrent “1000 movies to see before you die” approach—is that it relegates great films to a checklist of good-for-you ...

Enzo Staiola on the set of Bicycle Thieves: ‘The sturdy little figure, trotting hopefully beside his father on his search, gazing up with a rare smile and rarer tears, moved me more than any child ...

Casting independent short film 'Crime Cycle'. Synopsis: When deliveryman's bicycles are repeatedly stolen he begins to consider a life of crime. A comedy riff on the 1948 classic Bicycle thieves, ...