A Hard Day’s Night was all we could talk about. I’d seen the film three times and knew the words to every song. Walking by the lake one sunny afternoon, I caught sight of something in the shrubbery. I moved closer. It was a red bicycle, rusty, battered basket, a big...
It is the sound of squealing wheels skidding hard over the road surface that startles me awake. A second earlier, the driver himself woke to see the brake lights of a stationary vehicle ahead; a red stop sign on Interstate 95 just outside Jacksonville. It is early...
When the Spring came the river unmuddied itself. I could see the bicycle beneath the surface. I pictured the day when the owner must have wheeled it proudly home for the first time. Perhaps a gift – of movement, balance, direction. What must have flowed since to...
Jour de Fête Jour de Fête (“The Big Day”) is a 1949 French comedy film directed by Jacques Tati. Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as...
Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette), also known as The Bicycle Thief, is director Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 story of a poor father searching post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job which was to be the...
