Amarcord (#4) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

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Release Date: February 8, 2011
Purchase: Amazon

Italy
1973
123 minutes
Color
1.85:1
Italian

This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini, satirizes the director’s youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota’s classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord remains one of cinema’s enduring treasures.

Disc Features:

1. New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
2. Audio commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke
3. Fellini’s Homecoming, a new 45-minute documentary on the complicated relationship between the celebrated director, his hometown, and his past
4. Video interview with star Magali Noël
5. Federico Fellini’s drawings of characters in the film
6. “Felliniana,” a presentation of ephemera devoted to Amarcord from the collection of Don Young
7. Archival audio interviews with Fellini and his friends and family, by longtime radio film critic Gideon Bachmann
8. New restoration demonstration
9. Deleted scene
10. American release trailer
11. Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
12. New and improved English subtitle translation
13. PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by scholar Sam Rohdie and Fellini’s 1967 essay “My Rimini"

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