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La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
: :Studio: Koch International Release Date: 09/21/2004 Run time: 167 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:At three brief hours, La Dolce Vita, a piece of cynical, engrossing social commentary, stands as Federico Fellini's timeless masterpiece. A rich, detailed panorama of Rome's modern decadence and sophisticated immorality, the film is episodic in structure but held tightly in focus by the wandering protagonist through whom we witness the sordid action. Marcello Rubini (extraordinarily played by Marcello Mastroianni) is a tabloid reporter trapped in a shallow high-society existence. A man of paradoxical emotional juxtapositions (cool but ...
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Divorce Italian Style - Criterion Collection
:Description:Baron Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile cousin Angela, but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia. His solution? Since divorce is illegal, he will devise a scenario wherein he can catch his spouse in the arms of another and murder her to save his honor-a lesser offense. Criterion is proud to present director Pietro Germi's hilarious and cutting satire of Italy's hypocritical judicial system and male-dominated culture, winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, in a two-disc DVD edition that also ...
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La Notte
:Description:Antonioni's study of alienation and moral decay chronicles a day in the life of a middle-class couple whose marriage has been destroyed by mutual indifference and impenetrable loneliness. essential video:Continuing the 'alienation trilogy' that began with L'Avventura and ended with L'Eclisse, Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte is a visually arresting, emotionally numbing exercise in chronic ennui. The film's anesthetizing effect is entirely intentional; Antonioni's central couple (Marcello Mastroianni as a self-absorbed novelist, Jeanne Moreau as his bored and wealthy wife) wallow in their own emotional desolation, constantly drifting--and in Moreau's case, literally drifting--from ...
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
: essential video:Vittorio De Sica's delightful anthology comedy from 1963 pairs joined-at-the-hip costars Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in three funny stories about sex. The first finds Loren playing an impoverished woman with a jail sentence hanging over her head. A unique loophole in the law, however, keeps her out from behind bars: pregnant women and new mothers cannot be incarcerated. Forestalling her date with the pokey, this incredibly fecund felon keeps bearing children. Her lucky but exhausted accomplice is played by Mastroianni, who can't resist her siren call between deliveries. The middle ...
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Ready to Wear
:Description:A glittering Hollywood all-star cast shines in Robert Altman's deliciously sexy comedy hit READY TO WEAR! At the world's hottest fashion show, there's been a murder. Now, everybody's a suspect -- including two guests who end up sharing much more than a hotel room! Add to the fun a hilariously inept TV reporter on the trail of her most shocking interview yet! They're all caught up in the year's biggest see-and-be-seen events -- where steamy scandals and spectacular supermodels turn up the heat in a riotous show of high-fashion hilarity. :Robert Altman's much-anticipated ...
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La Dolce Vita (Deluxe Collector's Edition)
:Description:One of the most influential and popular works by Federico Fellini, LA DOLCE VITA follows the 'sweet life' of a tabloid journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) who covers the glitzy show business life in Rome. In constant search for the next big scandal, he is continually seduced by the decadent life led by Rome’s pampered rich. COLLECTIBLE MATERIALS • 40 Page Collector’s Booklet with essay by Italian Cinema and Fellini expert, Peter Bondanella (author of the book Italian Cinema: From Neorealist to the Present) • Five 5' x 7' Collectible Photo Cards • 11x17 Poster ...
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Big Deal on Madonna Street - Criterion Collection
:Description:An all-star cast and jazzy score highlight this charming comedy, a deft satire of classic caper films like Rififi. Big Deal on Madonna Street hilariously details the plight of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist.
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Marriage Italian Style
:Description:Filumena (Sophia Loren) was working in a brothel when she first met Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni), and his been his mistress ever since. Upon hearing that he plans to marry as much younger woman Filumena devises a brilliant scheme to convince him that
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Time Regained
:Description:Filumena (Sophia Loren) was working in a brothel when she first met Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni), and his been his mistress ever since. Upon hearing that he plans to marry as much younger woman Filumena devises a brilliant scheme to convince him that
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A Special Day
:Description:Two of Italy's greatest film stars, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, are united in this special film about two special people. The day is May 8, 1939, the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome which underscored the infamous allianc
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