Essential Fellini.
Variety lights: A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | Italian English |
| Language Notes: | In Italian with English subtitles. |
| Published: |
[New York, New York] :
Criterion Collection,
2020.
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| Edition: | Special edition collector's set |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | Variety lights: A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises. The white sheik: During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces. I vitelloni: Details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to find meaning in their lives. La strada: A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way. Il bidone: A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures. Nights of Cabiria: A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak. La dolce vita: A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome. 8 1/2: A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. Juliet of the spirits: Visions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband. Fellini Satyricon: A series of mythical tales set in first century Rome, following Encolpius and his friend Ascyltus as they try to win the heart of a young boy name Gitón with a surreal and dream-like Roman landscape. Roma: A procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life. Amarcord: A semi-autobiographical tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano in 1930s Fascist Italy. And the ship sail on: In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers. Intervista: Federico Fellini accepts the request of a television crew to be interviewed about his career, narrating memories, dreams, realities and fantasies. Marcello Mastroianni: I remember: In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor, includeing stories about Fellini and De Sica as directors. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. Film credits from accompanying booklet. Fellini Satyricon from the book by Gaius Petronius Arbiter. Various aspect ratios. Special features: (Variety lights) 'Fellini: I'm a born liar,' a feature-length documentary from 2002 by Damian Pettigrew that provides an unorthodox introduction to Federico Fellini's life and work that features extensive interviews with the director himself; First episode of "Second look," André Delvaux's 1960 series of interviews with Fellini for Belgian television. (The white sheik) Interviews from 2002 with actors Brunella Bovo and Leopoldo Trieste, and Fellini friend and collaborator Moraldo Rossi; Archival audio interviews of Fellini and his friends and family, conducted by critic Gideon Bachmann. (I vitteloni) 'Vitellonismo,' a 2004 documentary featuring interviews with actors Leopoldo Trieste and Franco Interlenghi, assistant director Moraldo Rossi, Fellini biographer Tullio Kezich, Fellini friend Vincenzo Mollica, and former director of the Fellini Foundation Vittorio Boarini; Presentation of 'I vitelloni' ephemera from the "Felliniani" archive of collector Don Young; Second episode of "Second look," André Delvaux's 1960 series of interviews with Fellini for Belgian television; trailer. (La strada) Introduction from 2003 by filmmaker Martin Scorsese; Audio commentary from 2003 by Peter Bondanella, author of 'The cinema of Federico Fellini'; "Federico Fellini's autobiography," a documentary originally broadcast on Italian television in 2000; Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack, featuring the voices of Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart; trailer. (Il bidone) New audio commentary by Fellini scholar Frank Burke; Interview from 2013 with filmmaker Dominique Delouche. (Nights of Cabiria) 'Giulietta Masina: the power of a smile,' an hour-long documentary from 2004; Third episode of "Second look," André Delvaux's 1960 series of interviews with Fellini for Belgian television; Interview from 1999 with filmmaker Dominique Delouche; Audio interview from 1998 with producer Dino De Laurentiis; Trailers. (La dolce vita) Interview from 2014 with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, an assistant director on the film; Interview from 2014 with scholar David Forgacs about the period in Italian history when the film was made; Interview from 2014 with journalist Antonello Sarno; Interview from 1965 with Fellini; Presentation of 'La dolce vita' ephemera from the "Felliniana" archive of collector Don Young; Video essay from 2014 by filmmaker Kogonada; Fourth episode of "Second look," André Delvaux's 1960 series of interviews with Fellini for Belgian television; Documentary from 2009 by Antoine de Gaudemaron on the making of 'La dolce vita,' featuring archival footage and interviews with actor Anouk Aimée and assistant director Dominique Delouche, among others. (8 1/2) Introduction from 2001 by filmmaker Terry Gilliam; Audio commentary from 2001 featuring film critics Gideon Bachmann and Antonio Monda; 'The last sequence,' a 2003 documentary on Fellini's lost alternate ending for '8 1/2'; 'Nino Rota: between cinema and concert,' a 1993 documentary about Fellini's longtime composer; Interviews from 2001 with actor Sandra Milo, filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro; Rare photographs from Bachmann's collection; Gallery of behind-the-scenes and production photos; U.S. theatrical trailer. (Juliet of the spirits) 4K restoration of 'Toby Dammit,' Fellini's contribution to a 1968 omnibus film based on tales by Edgar Allan Poe; 'Fellini: a director's notebook,' a film by Fellini from 1969, newly restored in 4K; 'Reporter's diary: "Zoom on Fellini,"' a behind-the-scenes documentary; "Familiar spirits," a 1969 interview with Fellini by '8 1/2' actor Ian Dallas; Trailer. (Fellini Satyricon) Audio commentary from 2014 featuring an adaptation of Eileen Lanouette Hughe's 1971 memoir 'On the set of "Fellini Satyricon": a behind-the-scenes diary'; 'Ciao, Federico!,' Gideon Bachmann's documentary shot on the set of 'Fellini Satyricon'; Archival interviews with Fellini; Interview from 2011 with cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno; Documentary from 2014 about Fellini's adaptation of Petronius's work, featuring interviews with classicists Luca Canali, a consultant on the film, and Joanna Paul; Interview from 2014 with photographer Mary Ellen Mark about her experiences on the set and her iconic photographs of Fellini and his film; Presentation of 'Fellini Satyricon' ephemera from the "Felliniana" archive of collector Don Young; Trailer. (Roma) Audio commentary from 2016 featuring Fellini scholar Frank Burke; Deleted scenes; Interview from 2016 with filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino; Interview from 2016 with poet and Fellini friend Valerio Magrelli; Presentation of 'Roma' ephemera from the "Felliniana" archive of collector Don Young; Trailer. (Amarcord) Audio commentary from 2006 by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke; 'The secret diary of "Amarcord,"' a 1974 behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the film; Deleted scene; 'Fellini's homecoming,' a documentary from 2006 on the relationship between the director and his hometown; Interview from 2006 with actor Magali Noël; Fellini's drawings of characters from the film; Presentation of 'Amarcord' ephemera from the "Felliniana" archive of collector Don Young; Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack; U.S. theatrical trailer. (And the ship sails on) "Fellini racconta: Diary of a film," a behind-the-scenes documentary from 1983. (Intervista) "Fellini's TV," a 2003 Italian television documentary on Fellini's work in television advertising during the 1980s; "Fellini racconta: Passeggiate nella memoria," an Italian television documentary produced in 2000 and featuring several interviews with late-in-life Fellini looking back on his career; "At home with Federico Fellini," a 1987 interview with Fellini on the importance of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel 'Amerika' to 'Intervista'; Audio interview from the early sixties with actor Marcello Mastroianni by film critic Gideon Bachmann. Accompanying booklets: Guide to the films / text by David Forgacs (79 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm); Essential Fellini: essays (Introduction / by Bilge Ebiri -- Dreams and reality: Primary sources / by Michael Almereyda -- Rome and Rimini: Imagined homes / by Colm Tóibin -- Angels and demons: Life on earth / by Carol Morley -- Women and men: Tough love / by Stephanie Zacharek -- Life and death: There is no end / by Kogonada) (144 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm). |
| Physical Description: | 15 videodiscs (approximately 1885 min.) : sound, color, and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 booklets. |
| Format: | Blu-ray; region A; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Audience: | Not rated except Fellini Satyricon, Roma, Amarcord (MPAA rating: R), And the ship sails on (MPAA rating: PG). |
| Awards: | Academy Awards, 1957 (La strada): Best Foreign Language Film. Academy Awards, 1958 (Nights of Cabiria): Best Foreign Language Film. Academy Awards, 1964 (8 1/2): Best Foreign Language Film. Academy Awards, 1975 (Amarcord): Best Foreign Language Film. Cannes Film Festival, 1957 (Nights of Cabiria): Best Actress (Giulietta Masina) ; OCIC Award - Special Mention (Federico Fellini). Cannes Film Festival, 1960 (La dolce vita): Palme d'Or (Federico Fellini). Golden Globes, 1966 (Juliet of the spirits): Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film. Venice Film Festival, 1953 (I Vitteloni): Silver Lion (Federico Fellini). Venice Film Festival, 1954 (La strada): OCIC Award - Honorable Mention (Federico Fellini) ; Silver Lion (Federico Fellini). Venice Film Festival, 1969 (Fellini Satyricon): Pasinetti Award - Best Italian Film. |
| Production Credits: | Variety lights: cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editing, Mario Bonotti ; music, Felice Lattuada ; sets and costumes, Aldo Buzzi. The white sheik: cinematography, Arturo Gallea ; editing, Rolando Benedetti ; music, Nino Rota. I vitelloni: cinematography, Otello Martelli, Luciano Trasatti, Carlo Carlini ; editing, Rolando Benedetti ; music, Nino Rota. La strada: cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editing, Leo Catozzo ; music, Nino Rota. Il bidone: cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editing, Mario Serandrei, Giuseppe Vari ; music, Nino Rota ; production design, Dario Cecchi. Nights of Cabiria: cinematography, Aldo Tonti ; editing, Leo Catozzo ; music, Nino Rota ; production design and costumes, Piero Gherardi. La dolce vita: cinematography, Otello Martelli ; editing, Leo Catozzo ; music, Nino Rota ; production design and costumes, Piero Gherardi. 8 1/2: cinematography, Gianni Di Venanzo ; editing, Leo Catozzo ; music, Nino Rota ; production design, Piero Gherardi. Juliet of the spirits: cinematography, Gianni Di Venanzo ; editing, Ruggero Mastroianni ; music, Nino Rota ; production design and costumes, Piero Gherardi. Fellini Satyricon: cinematography, Giuseppe Rotunno ; editing, Ruggero Mastroianni ; music, Nino Rota, İlhan Mimaroğlu, Tod Dockstader, Andrew Rudin ; production design, Danilo Donati, Luigi Scaccianoce ; costumes, Danilo Donati. Roma: cinematography, Giuseppe Rotunno ; editing, Ruggero Mastroianni ; music, Nino Rota ; production design and costumes, Danilo Donati. Amarcord: cinematography, Giuseppe Rotunno ; editing, Ruggero Mastroianni ; music, Nino Rota ; production design and costumes, Danilo Donati. And the ship sails on: cinematography, Giuseppe Rotunno ; editing, Ruggero Mastroianni ; music, Gianfranco Plenizio ; production design, Dante Ferretti ; costumes, Maurizio Millenotti. Intervista: cinematography, Tonino Delli Colli ; editing, Nino Baragli ; music, Nicola Piovani ; production design and costumes, Danilo Donati. Marcello Mastroianni: I remember: cinematography, Giuseppe Rotunno ; editing, Anna Maria Tatò ; music, Armando Trovajoli. |
| ISBN: | 9781681437750 1681437759 |