Miracolo a Milano /
"Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph Bicycle Thieves with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of v...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | Italian |
| Language Notes: | Italian dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
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[New York, NY] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2022]
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| Edition: | Blu-ray special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
1119. |
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| Summary: | "Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph Bicycle Thieves with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds works together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it's up to the cherubic orphan Totò (Francesco Golisano)--with some divine help--to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, adapting his own novel, craft a big-hearted ode to the nobility of everyday people"--Container. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the novel "Totò il buono" by Cesare Zavattini. Originally released as a motion picture in 1951. 1.37:1 aspect ratio. Special features: new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; new interview with neorealism expert and film scholar David Forgacs; audio interview from the late 1960s in which director Vittorio De Sica looks back on his career, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann; Interviews with actor Brunella Bovo and Manuel De Sica, the director's son; Feature-length documentary from 2019 on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini; Trailers; New English subtitle translation; An essay by film critic Christina Newland. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm) |
| Format: | Blu-ray; region A ; 1.37:1 aspect ratio ; monaural.. |
| Production Credits: | Photography by G. R. Aldo ; editing, Eraldo Da Roma ; music by Alessandro Cicognini. |
| ISBN: | 9781681439259 1681439255 |