Roma is available from Criterion on December 13th. After such early works as I vitelloni, Fellini broke away from neorealism’s political strictures with the beloved La strada, and from there boldly explored his obsessions with the circus, societal decadence, spiritual redemption, and, most controversially, women, in such films as Nights of Cabiria, Juliet of the Spirits, and And the Ship Sails On. A visual artist whose voice and his vision is showcased in a truly resplendent presentation from Criterion reiterating the beauty of Fellini’s work. In his early career, Fellini was both a screenwriter for neorealist pioneer Roberto Rossellini and a newspaper caricaturist in postwar Rome, competing influences he would bring together with startling results. The presentation comes from a new 4K restoration, which was in turn sourced primarily from the 35mm original camera negative. While his most popular-and accessible-film, the darkly nostalgic childhood memoir Amarcord, is a great entryway into his oeuvre, 8½, a collage of memories, dreams, and fantasies about a director’s artistic crisis, is perhaps his masterpiece. The Criterion Collection upgrades Alberto Lattuada’s and Federico Fellini’s Variety Lights to Blu-ray, presenting it on the first dual-layer disc of Criterion’s latest director-centric box set, Essential Fellini.
Listed for $249.95, the set will come in deluxe packaging that includes two lavishly illustrated books with hundreds of pages of content: notes on the films by scholar David Forgacs essays by filmmakers Michael Almereyda, Kogonada, and Carol Morley, film critics Bilge Ebiri and Stephanie Zacharek, and novelist Colm Tóibín and dozens of images spotlighting Don Young’s renowned collection of Fellini memorabilia.One of Italy’s great modern directors, Federico Fellini was a larger-than-life maestro who created an inimitable cinematic style combining surreal carnival with incisive social critique. Archival audio interviews by film critic Gideon Bachmann with Fellini, Mastroianni, and Fellini’s friends and family.Archival interviews with Fellini stars and collaborators, including Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Anouk Aimée, and Magali Noël.
A two-hour, four-part 1960 interview with Fellini by filmmaker André Delvaux for Belgian television.The newly restored television film Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969), and the feature documentaries Fellini: I’m a Born Liar (2002) and Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (1997), the latter presented in its 193-minute version Fellini’s hallucinatory Roma gets a pristine 2k transfer and a few meaty bonus features from Criterion.
Subscribe HERE to the FREE Media Play News Daily Newsletter! To reveal Guidos state of mind as he struggles with his filmmaking and multiple demands on his. FOR SALE Disc(s) and case show moderate signs of wear and tear. After his international smash La Dolce Vita (1960), Federico Fellini found himself saddled with a case of directors block, inspiring him to make 8 1/2 (1963), about fictional director Guido Anselmis case of directors block, that made visible the intimate workings of creativity. The set includes new 4K restorations of 11 of the theatrical features, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks for all films. FEDERICO FELLINIS ROMA The Criterion Collection Blu-ray - 22.68.
The set will include the films Variety Lights (1950), The White Sheik (1952), I Vitelloni (1953), La Strada (1954), Il Bidone (1955), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), And the Ship Sails On (1983) and Intervista (1987), plus a new digital restoration of the short film Toby Dammit (1968). 24 will release Essential Fellini, a 15-disc Blu-ray collection of 14 works from celebrated Italian director Federico Fellini (1920-1993) 100 years after his birth. ‘Essential Fellini’ Blu-ray Set Arrives Nov.