Film series to screen SSLqBiciclette’

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The Little Youngstown Cinema series will screen the 1948 film “Ladri di Biciclette” (“Bicycle Thieves”) Saturday at 9 p.m. in its new space in the basement of the Erie Terminal Building on West Commerce Street, downtown.

Prior films in the series were shown in the street-level gallery space of the building. Film-goers will still enter through the same doors at West Commerce and North Phelps streets.

Saturday’s film will start at 9 p.m. and will be preceded by the 2011 short film “Parts + Labor,” made by Sean O’Malley of Youngstown.

Admission is $10 ($8 in advance at Joe Maxx Coffee, downtown, and online at littleyoungstown.com).

“Ladri di Biciclette” has been hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made.

The Academy Award–winning film, 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 his work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.