La Dolce Vita (Blu-ray)
La Dolce Vita (Blu-ray)
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*This is NOT a comic! But I did go to film school!
By Federico Fellini. Published by Criterion.
Blu-ray disc, 174 minutes, 2.35:1 aspect ratio, B&W, 1960 (2021 printing)
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La dolce vita 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 (a sublimely cool Marcello Mastroianni) during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight. This mordant picture was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of contemporary Europe, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become.
FILM INFO
SPECIAL FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration by The Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, an assistant director on the film
- New interview with scholar David Forgacs about the period in Italian history when the film was made
- New interview with Italian journalist Antonello Sarno
- Interview with director Federico Fellini from 1965
- Audio interview with actor Marcello Mastroianni from the early 1960s
- Felliniana, a presentation of La dolce vita ephemera from the collection of Don Young
- New visual essay by filmmaker : : kogonada
- PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins
Cover by Eric Skillman
