Criterion Tube: Playful Fellini and Benigni
By January 29, 2013
Film Info
- Italy
- 1973
- 123 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1
- Italian
- Spine #4
This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini, satirizes the director’s youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota’s classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord remains one of cinema’s enduring treasures.
Cast
| Titta's mother | Pupella Maggio |
| Titta's father | Armando Brancia |
| Gradisca | Magali Noël |
| Uncle Teo | Ciccio Ingrassia |
| Uncle Lallo | Nando Orfei |
| Lawyer | Luigi Rossi |
| Titta | Bruno Zanin |
| Don Baravelli | Gianfilippo Carcano |
| Volpina | Josiane Tanzilli |
| Tobacconist | Maria Antonietta Beluzzi |
| Titta's grandfather | Giuseppe Ianigro |
| Fascist leader | Ferruccio Brembilla |
Credits
| Director | Federico Fellini |
| Story and screenplay | Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra |
| Production design and costumes by | Danilo Donati |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| Music | Nino Rota |
| Editing | Ruggero Mastroianni |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke
- Fellini’s Homecoming, a new 45-minute documentary on the complicated relationship between the celebrated director, his hometown, and his past
- Video interview with star Magali Noël
- Federico Fellini’s drawings of characters in the film
- “Felliniana,” a presentation of ephemera devoted to Amarcord from the collection of Don Young
- Archival audio interviews with Fellini and his friends and family, by longtime radio film critic Gideon Bachmann
- New restoration demonstration
- Deleted scene
- American release trailer
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by scholar Sam Rohdie and Fellini’s 1967 essay “My Rimini"
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