Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993) was a film maker that influenced a generation. Bringing together fourteen of the director’s greatest spectacles, all beautifully restored, this centenary box set is a monument to an artist who conjured a cinematic universe all his own: a vision of the world as a three-ring circus in which his innermost infatuations, fears, and fantasies take center stage. The Federico Fellini Collection Starring: Anthony Quinn, Guilietta Masina and Richard Basehart Optimum World RRP: £34.99 OPTD1491 Certificate: PG Available 02 March 2009. A funny, sardonic, and clever satire on popular heroes and ordinary peoples illusions. Director: Federico Fellini Stars: Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste. The set contains 14 of Federico Fellini’s films, from his 1950 debut, Variety Lights, co-directed with Alberto Lattuada, to 1987’s Intervista, a fascinatingly recursive paean to the golden days of studio filmmaking. During a day of their honeymoon, newlyweds are separated by the citys lust and the desires it produces. The company of entertainers are moving in, the greasepaint is thickening, and libidos are boiling in step. He began his career working in the slice-of-life poetry of neorealism, and though he soon spun off on his own freewheeling creative axis, he never lost that grounding, evoking his dreams, memories, and obsessions on increasingly grand scales in increasingly grand productions teeming with carnivalesque imagery and flights of phantasmagoric surrealism while maintaining an earthy, embodied connection to humanity. The Fellini Foundation for Cinema owns a collection of some 15,000 documents, photographs, drawings, screenplays and original film footage by Federico Fellini as well as a hundred directors including Robert Altman, Francesco Rosi, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Richard Donner, Nikita Mikhalkov, Jean-Luc Godard, Denis Rabaglia, etc. The Criterion Collection’s lavish Essential Fellini box set just about evenly splits the difference between the two periods. Blu-ray Review: Criterions ESSENTIAL FELLINI, an Eternal Tribute to an Eternal Filmmaker. Leisurely one moment and breathless the next, this urban fantasia by Federico Fellini interweaves recollections of the director’s young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome. T hough there are a handful of themes and images that recur throughout his work, Federico Fellini’s style underwent a drastic change at the cusp. The Italian maestro is defined by his dualities: the sacred and the profane, the masculine and the feminine, the provincial and the urbane. Travelogue, memoir, and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. Essential Fellini is one of the most elegantly designed and supplement-packed sets that Criterion has ever released. Gone are the faded colors, blurred edges, and lack of depth, with all of these interests. Three Fellini shorts originally released as parts of omnibus films: The Marriage Agency (from the neorealist anthology Love in the City), The Temptations of Doctor Antonio (from the Decameron-inspired sex farce Boccaccio ’70), and Toby Dammit (from the Poe collection Spirits of the Dead). Winner of the very first Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, La strada possesses the purity and timeless resonance of a fable and remains one of cinema’s most exquisitely moving visions of humanity struggling to survive in the face of life’s cruelties.One hundred years after his birth, FEDERICO FELLINI still stands apart as a giant of the cinema. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ marks the moment when the director’s always-personal approach to filmmaking fully embraced self-reflexivity, pioneering a stream-of-consciousness style that darts exuberantly among flashbacks, dream sequences, and carnivalesque reality, and turning one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. The Criterion Collection adds another Fellini title to their Blu-ray catalogue, and given the overwhelmingly remastered, 4K audio/visual presentation from the 2001 MGM DVD, this will likely stand as one of the most essential cleanups of 2015. The infinitely expressive Masina registers both childlike wonder and heartbreaking despair as Gelsomina, loyal companion to the traveling strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn, in a toweringly physical performance), whose callousness and brutality gradually wear down her gentle spirit.
He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.
With this breakthrough film, Federico Fellini launched both himself and his wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina to international stardom, breaking with the neorealism of his early career in favor of a personal, poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival. Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( Italian: federiko fellini 20 January 1920 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness.
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