Federico Fellini
1) I, Fellini
Author
Language
English
Description
Forged from the many conversations Charlotte Chandler conducted with director Federico Fellini over the course of fourteen years, and featuring a forward by Billy Wilder, I, Fellini is a portrait of one of Italy's greatest filmmakers in his own words. In the book, Fellini recounts the stories behind his classic films La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, La Strada, and others, describing the inspirations from which they arose and the struggles to get them filmed....
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (174 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 pages) in container
Language
Italiano
Description
Tabloid reporter Marcello's beat is Rome's international jet set. In pursuit of the next big scandal, Marcello is continually seduced and repulsed by the hedonistic lifestyle of the rich, amoral and bored to whom nothing is sacred. His values are being destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned as he experiences the emptiness behind the glitz of "the sweet life."
Series
Criterion collection volume 149
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies.
4) Amarcord
Series
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of people in a town in Italy in the 1930's, under the control of both the Church and Fascism.
5) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (138 mins.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
6) La strada
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
7) 8 1/2
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
"[The film] follows burned-out celebrity director Guido through a series of daily encounters and wild daydreams, the first of which finds him ascending into the clouds during a traffic jam. Seeking solace and rejuvenation at a remote health spa for the rich and privileged, he continues to encounter journalists, his producer, his mistress, and most inconvenient of all, his aloof wife, Luisa. Flashing among past, present, future and fantasy, Guido longs...
8) Roma
Series
Language
Italiano
Description
"Travelogue, memoir and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. Leisurely one moment and breathless the next, this urban fantasia by Federico Fellini interweaves recollections of the director's young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome, where he and his film crew are shooting footage of the bustling...
9) I vitelloni
Series
Criterion collection volume 246
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
This film compassioniately details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to find meaning in their lives.
10) Intervista
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
"A Japanese film crew interviews Fellini about his career as he films the memories of his life as a young journalist walking into his beloved studio Cinecitta for the first time"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 747
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
Italiano
Description
Follows the exploits of two pansexual young men-the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus-as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess.
12) La dolce vita
Series
Criterion collection volume 733
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (174 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
Italiano
Description
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
Series
Criterion collection volume 293
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
"In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of The People's Saint: humility, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis' time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery"--Container.
Dramatization of the life of St. Frances of Assisi, focusing on the founding of the Franciscan order of...