Tonino Guerra
Series
Criterion collection volume 50
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1914, a colorful melange of celebrities embark on a funeral voyage for a dead opera star. An allegorical film blending spectacle, humour, poignance and grotesquerie.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Amelia and Pippo, who wowed crowds with recreations of the dances of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers decades ago, are reuniting for a nationwide TV special that features a list of guest stars that is both long and bizarre.
4) 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.
5) 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.
6) Red desert
Series
Criterion collection volume 522
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life.
7) Blow-up
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
8) L'eclisse
Series
Criterion collection volume 278
Formats
Description
Tells the story of a young woman who leaves one lover only to drift into a relationship with another. Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the couple's doomed affair, the director reaches the apotheosis of his modernist style, returning to his favorite themes: alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an increasingly mechanized world.
10) The assassin
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Description
Thirty-something antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is arrested on suspicion of murdering his older, far wealthier lover Adalgisa. But as the increasingly Kafkaesque police investigation proceeds, it becomes less and less important whether Martelli actually committed the crime as his entire lifestyle is effectively put on trial.
Publisher
Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 p.)
Description
It is the Night of San Lorenzo, the night when dreams come true. While watching shooting stars, Cecilia tells her son about a similar night in 1944, when she was six years old, and the residents of San Martino, her small Tuscan hometown, struggled against Nazi oppression during the final days of WWII.
Series
Criterion collection volume 678
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
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.