La Strada (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)

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La Strada (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)
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  • New Digital Transfer with Restored Image/Sound
  • Video Introduction by Martin Scorsese
  • Audio Commentary by Peter Bondanella, Author of The Cinema of Federico Fellini
  • Italian TV Documentary: Federico Fellini's Autobiography
  • Optional English-Dubbed Soundtrack Featuring the Voices of Anthony Quinn & Richard Basehart
  • New Essay by Film Scholar Peter Matthews
  • Theatrical Trailer for English Version
  • Language: Italian
  • Subtitles: English (Optional)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 11, 2003
  • Originally Released: 1954
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1956 - Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 21,105
Memories of Griffith, Vigo and Harry Langdon abound in Fellini's famed tragicommedia Full Review
CinePassion
Apr 11, 2015
...The entire cast is marvelous...
Entertainment Weekly
Nov 21, 2003
Rating: 5/5 -- A marvellous film. Full Review
BBC.com
Nov 3, 2001
Symbols, metaphors, and larger-than-life performances hold sway, and moments of bizarre if inconsequential charm abound. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 9, 2006
...Like a painter with a few favorite themes, Fellini would rework these images until the end of his life....LA STRADA is the first film that can be called entirely 'Felliniesque'...
Chicago Sun-Times
Apr 1, 1994
Early mush from the master, Federico Fellini. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Apr 27, 2009
Rating: 5/5 -- Signor Fellini has used his small cast, and, equally important, his camera, with the unmistakable touch of an artist. His vignettes fill his movie with beauty, sadness, humor and understanding. Full Review
New York Times
May 20, 2003

Description by OLDIES.com:

There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband, the legendary Federico Fellini, directs her as Gelsomina in La Strada, the film that launched them both to international stardom. Gelsomina is sold by her mother into the employ of Zampano (Anthony Quinn), a brutal traveling strongman. They join up with a traveling circus, where Zampano encounters his old rival, tightrope artist The Fool (Richard Basehart). With La Strada, Fellini left behind the familiar signposts of neorealism for a poetic fable of love and cruelty. The Criterion Collection is proud to present La Strada, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1956.

Product Description:

Zampano (Anthony Quinn), a performer in a traveling carnival outside of Rome, purchases the young, poor Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) to be his wife and assistant. Although she shows genuine enthusiasm as an assistant, putting on a fabulous clown act akin to Charlie Chaplin, nobody seems to appreciate her; she quietly endures a life of emotional coldness and cruelty. When she meets "The Fool," Ilmatto (Richard Basehart), a quicksilver trapeze artist who befriends her and offers her warmth, kindness, and an uplifting vision of the world, Gelsomina convinces herself that she and Zampano are in love. She is plunged into despair, however, after Zampano interferes in a jealous rage, precipitating a tragedy that will haunt him forever. Federico Fellini establishes a style and certain key themes in this film that he repeats as trademarks in subsequent films: the beach as a symbol of purity and release; haunting, soft female singing as a symbol of memory; examinations of Catholics and their religion as a cult behavior; and, above all, a chaotic, circus-oriented cyclical pattern that guides his films. The Oscar-winning LA STRADA is the perfect place from which to begin an exploration of Fellini's expertly crafted movies.

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