Cinema Retro has received the following press release:
Joining in the international celebration of Federico
Fellini's 100th birthday, Criterion is thrilled to announce Essential
Fellini, a fifteen-Blu-ray box set that brings together fourteen of the
director's most imaginative and uncompromising works for the first time.
Alongside new restorations of the theatrical features, the set also includes
short and full-length documentaries about Fellini's life and work,
archival interviews with his friends and collaborators, commentaries on six of
the films, video essays, the director's 1968 short Toby Dammit, and
much more.
The edition is accompanied by two lavishly illustrated
books with hundreds of pages of notes and essays on the films by writers
and filmmakers, as well as dozens of images of Fellini
memorabilia. Essential Fellini is a fitting tribute to the maestro of
Italian cinema!
FIFTEEN-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR'S SET FEATURES
New 4K restorations of 11 theatrical features, with
uncompressed monaural soundtracks for all films
New digital restorations of the short film Toby Dammit
(1968) and the television film Fellini: A Director's Notebook (1969), with
uncompressed monaural soundtracks
Feature documentaries Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2002)
and Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (1997), the latter presented in its
193-minute version
Two-hour, four-part 1960 interview with director
Federico Fellini by filmmaker André Delvaux for Belgian television
Four behind-the-scenes documentaries: Reporter's Diary:
"Zoom on Fellini" (1965), Ciao, Federico! (1969), The Secret Diary of
"Amarcord" (1974), and Fellini racconta: On the Set of "And the
Ship Sails On" (1983)
Fellini racconta: Passegiatte nella memoria, a 2000
documentary featuring interviews with a late-in-life Fellini
Giulietta Masina: The Power of a Smile, a 2004
documentary about Fellini's wife and frequent collaborator
Once Upon a Time: "La dolce vita," a French
television documentary about the film
Audio commentaries on six of the films
Program from 2003 on Fellini's 1980s television
advertising work
Archival interviews with Fellini stars and
collaborators, including Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Anouk Aimée, and Magali Noël
Archival audio interviews by film critic Gideon
Bachmann with Fellini, Mastroianni, and Fellini's friends and family
Video essays, trailers, and more
PLUS: Deluxe packaging, including 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 TóibÃn, and dozens of images spotlighting Don Young's renowned collection
of Fellini memorabilia
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)
INTERVISTA (1987)
THIS SET WILL SHIP ON NOVEMBER 24.
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