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The Criterion Collection – Frederico Fellini’s LA STRADA Available on 4k and Blu-ray November 2nd

“What a funny face! Are you a woman, really? Or an artichoke?”

Frederico Fellini’s LA STRADA (1954) will available on 4k and Blu-ray as part of The Criterion Collection November 2nd

With this breakthrough film, Federico Fellini launched both himself and his wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina to international stardom, breaking with the neorealism of his early career in favor of a personal, poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival. The infinitely expressive Masina registers both childlike wonder and heartbreaking despair as Gelsomina, loyal companion to the traveling strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn, in a toweringly physical performance), whose callousness and brutality gradually wear down her gentle spirit. Winner of the very first Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, La strada possesses the purity and timeless resonance of a fable and remains one of cinema’s most exquisitely moving visions of humanity struggling to survive in the face of life’s cruelties.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 4K digital restoration, undertaken in collaboration with The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack, featuring the voices of Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart

• Audio commentary from 2003 by Peter Bondanella, author of The Cinema of Federico Fellini

• Introduction from 2003 by filmmaker Martin Scorsese

• Giulietta Masina: The Power of a Smile, a documentary from 2004

• Federico Fellini’s Autobiography, a documentary originally broadcast on Italian television in 2000• Trailer

• PLUS: An essay by film critic Christina Newland
1954

• 108 MINUTES

• BLACK & WHITE

• MONAURAL

• IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

• 1.37:1 ASPECT RATIO

LA DOLCE VITA Screens September 28th at The Tivoli – ‘Classics in the Loop’

“You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home.”

LA DOLCE VITA screens Wednesday September 28th at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in ‘The Loop’) as part of their new ‘Classics in the Loop’ film series. The movie starts at 7pm and admission is $7. It will be on The Tivoli’s big screen.

There is sexy, and then there is Anita Eckberg, whose voluptuous figure splashing around the Trevi Fountain in Rome in Federico Fellini’s 1960 masterpiece LA DOLCE VITA, while wearing that bellissima black dress, was the ultimate symbol of male fantasy. The film won the Academy Award in 1960 for Best Costumes, thanks in large part to the black sleeveless gown that Miss Eckberg displayed in that famous scene. Costume designer Piero Gherardi worked in neo-realist Italian cinema from 1954 to 1971, notably on four key films by Federico Fellini. LA DOLCE VITA, 8 ½ (1963 – which also won him the Oscar), NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957), and JULIET OF THE SPIRIT (1965). Now you can see Anita rock that black dress while Marcello Mastroianni chases her around on the big screen when LA DOLCE VITA plays Wednesday night, September 28th at the Tivoli

Here’s the rest of the line-up for the ‘CLASSICS IN THE LOOP’ film series:

Oct. 5 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956)

Oct. 12 GONE WITH THE WIND

Oct. 19 SEVEN SAMURAI

Oct. 26 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

Federico Fellini’s CITY OF WOMEN Screens Friday Through Tuesday at Webster University

Federico Fellini’s CITY OF WOMEN (La Città Delle Donne – 1980) screens this Friday through Tuesday (May 27^th– 31st) at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 E. Lockwood, Webster Groves, MO 63119). The film begins each evening at 8:00.

“A house without a woman”, they say in my parts, “is like the Sea without a Siren”

CITY OF WOMEN, Federico Fellini’s epic 1980 fantasia, surrealist tour-de-force, tells the tale of Snàporaz a businessman played by Marcello Mastroianni, who hops off a train and finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse. The later work from the great Italian director is a real feast for the legion of Fellini fans. It has everything: the dream-like Felliniesque atmosphere, the nostalgic soundtrack by Louis Bacalov (Fellini’s regular composer after Nino Rota died in 1979), a scathing satire on the feminism and male chauvinism, and on society at large. The great director is a little more bitter than ever with CITY OF WOMEN, a little more sarcastic and nostalgic, but as art, it’s considered one of the best films he has ever made. The Art of Federico Fellini is timeless, even today, so don’t miss your chance to see one his masterpieces on the big screen when it plays at Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium.

Admission is:

$6 for the general public
$5 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$4 for Webster University staff and faculty

Free for Webster students with proper I.D.

Advance tickets are available from the cashier before each screening or contact the Film Series office (314-246-7525) for more options. The Film Series can only accept cash or check.

The Webster University Film Series site can be found HERE

http://www.webster.edu/film-series/

67th Cannes Film Festival Official Poster

Two days ahead of the announcement of the lineup for the 67th Cannes Film Festival, (April 17) the official poster has debuted.

Hervé Chigioni and his graphic designer Gilles Frappier have based the poster design for the 67th Festival de Cannes on a photogram taken from Federico Fellini’s 8½, which was presented in the Official Selection in 1963.

In Marcello Mastroianni and Federico Fellini, we celebrate a cinema that is free and open to the world, acknowledging once again the artistic importance of Italian and European cinema through one of its most stellar figures.

“The way he looks at us above his black glasses draws us right in to a promise of global cinematographic happiness,” explains the poster’s designer. “The happiness of experiencing the Festival de Cannes together.”

In his films, Marcello Mastroianni continued to encapsulate everything that was most innovative, nonconformist and poetic about cinema. On seeing the poster for the first time, Chiara Mastroianni, the actor’s daughter, said simply: “I am very proud and touched that Cannes has chosen to pay tribute to my father with this poster. I find it very beautiful and modern, with a sweet irony and a classy sense of detachment. It’s really him through and through!”

The 2014 Festival poster was designed by Lagency / Taste, Paris. The graphic charter of the 2014 Festival was designed by Bronx, Paris.

PARTY GIRL has been chosen to open the Official Selection of Un Certain Regard.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Festival-de-Cannes-Page-Officielle/197710070249937

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