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Series
Criterion collection volume 702
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries.
2) 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.
3) 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...
4) Il sorpasso
Series
Criterion collection volume 707
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to rural Southern Italy.
5) La notte
Series
Criterion collection volume 678
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
During one evening, an author and his wife begin to explore their deteriorating marriage and the indifference that they feel towards their circle of friends.
Series
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The minute she sets eyes on it, Molly Pargeter knows that the Tuscan villa she has found to lease is perfect for her family's summer holiday. She is powerfully drawn to its rustic beauty and to the enigma of its absentee landlord. Never mind that her husband and teenaged daughter are vocally unenthusiastic and that her outrageously extroverted father tricks them into taking him along."--Container.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes all 6 half-hour Rick Steves' Europe TV shows on Italy's great cities, produced from 2000 to 2009: Venice (serene, decadent ans till kicking), Venice side trips (the best of Veneto), Melan and Lake Como, Florence (City of art), Caesar's Rome, Rome (baroque, after dark), Naples and Pompeii.
Series
Criterion collection volume 745
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
A married couple takes an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences.
Series
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
In post-WWII poverty-stricken Rome, a man struggles to earn a living for himself and his family. When his bicycle and main means of support is stolen, with his young son in tow, he attempts to find the thief.
14) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 792
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : DVD video, sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
Italiano
Description
During planting season in Northern Italy's Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning adaring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence, this early smash is neorealism with a heaping dose of pulp.
17) Italy revealed
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of a country steeped in empire. Here is the seat of Caesar, the workshop of da Vinci and the cathedral of the Pope."--Container.
18) The leopard
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in Sicily in the 1800s, this film depicts Prince Salina, a great landowner, who watches the decrease of the aristocracy's power and influence during the 'Il Risorgimento', the unification of Italy under the royal House of Savoy. The upper class tries to ignore the nationalist movements, while the prince's rebellious nephew joins Giuseppe Garibaldi's revolutionaries.
19) Saving Venice
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers are racing against the clock and battling the forces of nature to try to save this historic city for future generations.
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