‘Essential Fellini’ Blu-ray Set Arrives November 24 From Criterion

August 20, 2020

John Latchem 

The Criterion Collection Nov. 24 will release Essential Fellini, a 15-disc Blu-ray collection of 14 works from celebrated Italian director Federico Fellini (1920-1993) 100 years after his birth.

The set will include 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) and Intervista (1987), plus a new digital restoration of the short film Toby Dammit (1968).

The set includes new 4K restorations of 11 of the theatrical features, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks for all films.

Extras include:

• The newly restored television film Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969), and the feature documentaries Fellini: I’m a Born Liar (2002) and Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (1997), the latter presented in its 193-minute version;
• A two-hour, four-part 1960 interview with 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;
• A program from 2003 on Fellini’s 1980s television advertising work;
• Archival interviews with Fellini stars and collaborators, including Marcello 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.

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