Consider yourself a bit of a movie buff? Ed Power has been poring through the latest book from the film critic that John Banville called “the greatest living writer on the movies”. In it, David Thomson shows the regular punter how to really watch a movie

MUCH is made of Vittorio De Sica’s ground/heartbreaking 1940s motion picture, The Bicycle Thief, which is based on a very simple ideal for a story — man against the elements.