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Fans of classic cinema with $200 to spend, take note: The Criterion Collection has announced “Essential Fellini”, a box of 14 films through legendary director Federico Fellini.
The Blu-Ray set, which will be released on November 24, will come with several features, adding 4K 11 restores of the films, as well as uncompressed monophonic soundtracks for the track. Most of the director’s most prominent films will be included in the box. The 14 films are: “Variety Lights” (1950), “The White Sheikh” (1952), “I Vitelloni” (1953), “La Strada” (1954), “Il Bidone” (1955), “Nights of Cabiria” “(1957),” La Dolce Vita “(19600) “81/2″ (1963),” Spirits’ Juliet “(1965),” Fellini Satyricon “(1969),” Rome “(1972),” Amarcord “(1973),” and the ship sails “(1983) and “Intervista”(1987).
Here’s the Announcement for Criterion:
One hundred years after his birth, Federico Fellini still stands out as a film giant. The Italian teacher explains himself through his dualities: the sacred and the profane, the masculine and the feminine, the provincial and the urban. He began his career running in the poetry of neorealism of the vital segment, and temporarily turned to his own free artistic axis, never losing that base, evoking his dreams, memories and obsessions on ever-increasing scales. Complete productions of carnival photographs and flights of ghostly surrealism, maintaining an earthly and incarnate bond with humanity. Combining fourteen of the director’s most important shows, all magnificently restored, this century-old box is a monument to an artist who has evoked his own cinematic universe: a vision of the global as a three-track circus in which its highest intimate concerns worry and fantasies occupy a central place.
Other features of the collection come with new virtual restorations of the short film “Tothrough Dammit” (1968) and the television film “Fellini: A Director’s Notebook” (1969), which will also feature uncompressed monophonic soundtracks. Also accompanied will be the documentary feature films “Fellini: I’m a Born Liar” (2002) and “Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember” (1997), the latter featured in its 193-minute version, as well as two 1960 interviews in four parts of an hour with director Federico Fellini through the filmmaker André Delvaux for Belgian television. A handful of other documentaries, archiving interviews and other media will accompany you with the set.
More information about the next edition can be found on the Criterion website.
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