Fellini’s Centennial Celebrated with THE ESSENTIAL FELLINI, A 15-Disc Box Set Coming To Criterion 11/24
August 11th, 2020 by Aaron Neuwirth
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.–
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THE ESSENTIAL FELLINI
FIFTEEN-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION BOX SET
INCLUDES FOURTEEN FILMS FROM THE MAESTRO OF ITALIAN CINEMA, AND TWO BOOKS OF ESSAYS, NOTES AND MOREALL THE MAJOR WORKS TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME
Joining in the international celebration of Federico Fellini’s 100th birthday, we’re thrilled to announce ESSENTIAL FELLINI, a 15-Blu-ray box set that brings together fourteen of the director’s most imaginative and uncompromising works for the first time. https://t.co/QWcOnLHZVi pic.twitter.com/bvl2BSsV0z
— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) August 11, 2020
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AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY NOVEMBER 24, 2020
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.
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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
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* 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 Tóibín, 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)
Aaron Neuwirth
Writer/Reviewer, Film Lover, Podcaster, Gamer, Comic Reader, Disc Golfer & a Lefty. There are too many films, TV, books, etc. for me to list as favorites, but I can assure that the amount film knowledge within my noggin is ridiculous, though I am always open to learning more. You can follow me on Twitter @AaronsPS4, see what else I am up to at TheCodeIsZeek.com & check out my podcast, Out Now with Aaron and Abe, on iTunes.
