The newly hired executive, Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher), while making his argument for dispensing with screenwriters, asks when anyone in the room actually went out to a movie theatre to see a film. Griffin says he has, only the night before, in Pasadena, a small city in Los Angeles County, north of and inland from the city of Hollywood. He says he went to see "Bicycle Thief," which impresses several others around the table, but not Levy. "It's an art movie - doesn't count. We're talking about 'movie' movies," he says, dismissively. The film is a landmark work in the history of Italian neorealism, directed by Vittorio De Sica, released in 1948, with the Italian title Ladri di biciclette, which is also sometimes translated, as it is in the textbook, as Bicycle Thieves. Since then it has become one of the most famous films in the world, a part of the canon of great films. As an "art movie," or what in the textbook is called an "art film," it is understood, as they say -- and this seems to be the main reason that Levy dismisses it -- to have been made primarily for rather than commercial or entertainment