Nino Rota
1) Amarcord
Series
Criterion collection volume 4
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (63 p. : col. ill., port. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.
2) Purple noon
Series
Criterion collection volume 637
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, this film stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf back to the United States; what initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, and murder. Bonus features include the original English language trailer, an archival interview...
Series
Formats
Description
In the early 1900s, the young Vito flees Sicily for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy. There he kills the local Black Hand Fanucci after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's stature grows. The family legacy is upended by Michael's business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + pamphlet.
Description
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton sparkle and amuse as Katharina and Petruchio in this adaptation of William Shakespeare's comic look at a male chauvinist in 16th century Padua who violently subdues his ill-tempered wife.
Series
Criterion collection volume 189
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ivan Cavalli brings his new wife Wanda to Rome on the least romantic honeymoon in history--a rigid schedule of family meetings and an audience with the Pope. But Wanda, dreaming of the dashing hero of a photo-strip cartoon, drifts off in search of the White Sheik, thus setting off a slapstick comedy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
7) Purple noon
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Small-time conman Tom Ripley travels to Italy to convince wealthy playboy Philippe Greenleaf to return to America, on behalf of Greenleaf's father. Greenleaf refuses, leading Ripley to undertake extreme measures in order to get what he wants.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (202 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family. Tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In a parallel story, Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
10) Amarcord
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's.
11) The Godfather
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
12) The leopard
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([10] p. ; 19 cm.)
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.
13) The Godfather
Formats
Description
"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge's love affair with his daughter....
15) The leopard
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recounts the years of Italy's Risorgimento, when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy. Contains the original Italian version with optional subtitles, the English-language version, commentary, documentary, interviews, theatrical trailers, newsreels, stills gallery, and booklet.