LA DOLCE VITA
is anyone aware what is going on with this movie? is it ever coming to dvd? is it being remastered? is there any rumors i missed about this one? i would very much like to add it to my collection.
I'll bet MacGuffin will be here in a moment to aid us in our query.
Only thing I found from DVD Journal:
La Dolce Vita
Rumored to be a Criterion disc someday, but we will not see Fellini's masterpiece under the Criterion folio until 2003 at the earliest
But you can drool over the Region 2 two disc set here. (http://207.136.67.23/film/DVDReview/ladolcevita.htm)
thank you very much macguffin. drool i will.... god, those black and white screen captures look gorgeous. *sigh
I havent seen this movie but feel i need to, cant find it anywhere
I emailed Ebert about it (since it's his fav movie). After a week of silence, he replied that he's heard rumours, but nothing in the near near future.
As of now, don't look for Criterion releasing La Dolce Vita at all. A year ago or so, they admitted they were in negotiations but now say they have no plans on releasing or even holding rights to the movie. Everything seems to have fallen apart in the negotiations.
~rougerum
Quote from: Duck SauceI havent seen this movie but feel i need to, cant find it anywhere
the library. it liked it less than 8 and 1/2
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One of the most influential films of Italian cinema, Federico Fellini's 1960 classic La Dolce Vita is coming to disc in a new special edition. Due on September 7th from Koch Lorber Films, the two-disc will feature a newly remastered and restored 2.35 anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with Italian & English DD5.1 tracks and English & Spanish subtitles. Bonus materials will include an audio commentary by Richard Schickel, a collection of never-before-seen Fellini shorts, "Remembering the Sweet Life" interviews with stars Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg, "Cinecitta: The House of Fellini" interview with Fellini, a photo still gallery, restoration demo, cast & crew biographies, filmographies and an eight-page collector's booklet with rare and hard-to-find photos from the set photographer. Retail is $34.98.
sweeeeeeeeeeeet
*creams pants*
*thrice*
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=5020109#post5020109
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Hello From Koch Lorber Films
Hello From Koch Lorber (or whatever you are calling us today). It was suggested to me by a member of this board that I should sign on and try to answer as many questions as I could about the upcoming DVD release of La Dolce Vita. As the DVD producer on this project, I will try to answer as many questions as I can regarding the transfer, bonus features and restoration. After reading through the forum, here are the main concerns as I see them:
1) PAL/NTSC conversion. We did have to use a PAL master for the restoration, as all 35mm and NTSC materials that we located were of very poor quality. Painstaking efforts were made to ensure that the transfer effects were minimized and the results are fantastic. Technology has improved greatly since the Fox Lorber days (not affilated), so I believe that you will be satisfied with the results.
2) Mono. The original mono has been restored and will be available on the disc, as well a stereo and 5.1 track, with or without subititles (English or Spanish), which have also been completely redone.
3) Quality. We used the Medusa version as a guidline and I believe we have way surpassed the quality. The Medusa version has many audio drops and spots of film dirt, which have all been removed in our version, as well as large portions of the film that are completely out of synch (check out Emma slamming the car door on Marcello after the Madonna scene and you'll get the idea) which we have made painstaking efforts to correct. We are still in the final stages of encoding, but I believe the finished product will be far superior to any DVD version of this on the market.
4) Schikel. Richard is not only an authority on Italian neo-realism, but also a film restoration expert as well (he is currently restoring Sam Fuller's The Big Red One), which makes him uniquely qualified for this commentary. To round out the experts in the package, we have included liner notes from Dennis Bartok of American Cinemateque and a filmed introduction by Alexander Payne.
5) The bonus features. We tried to give good value to the set, so we added a lot of material that has not seen the light of day here in the States, including Fellini TV, a collection of surrealist shorts done by Fellini over the years to run as commercials on Italian TV.
I hope that this e-mail answers some of your questions. If you have any thing else you would like to ask, feel free to do so and I will try to answer as quickly as possible. This has been a labor of love here at KLF for well over a year, and I hope you all enjoy seeing it as much as we have enjoyed working on it.
Best,
tim
I had a feeling that it would be PAL to NTSC, given this is a Lorber release, but I hope it looks good nonetheless.
Nov. 08, 2005:
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List Price: $79.98
Disc 1 - Main Program
Audio commentary by noted critic & film historian Richard Schickel
Introduction by acclaimed director Alexander Payne
Disc 2 - Bonus Materials
Fellini TV - Collection of never-before-seen Felinni shorts
Remembering the Sweet Life- Interviews with Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg
Cinecitta: The House of Fellini - Musical montage of Fellini's beloved studio
Fellini, Roma and Cinecitta - Interview with Fellini
Extensive Photo Gallery
Restoration Demo
Disc 3 - Bonus Materials
Documentary of La Doce Vita composer Nino Rota
Interview with Anita Ekberg (2004)
Interview with Federico Fellini from France TV (1960)
Marcello Mastroianni speaking about La Dolce Vita on France TV (1960)
Discussion with Fellini's closest friend and colleague, Rinaldo Gelend
Footage with the last surviving La Dolce Vita screenwriter, Tullio Pinelli
:yabbse-splooge:
Not even a Criterion version would cost so much. I'll hang on to my two disc set.
But... IT'S DELUXE!
Fucking ridiculous.
i've been looking in to buying this film for a while.
so now i beg the question:
2 disc or 3 disc with $17 dollar difference?
Italy fetes half century of Fellini's Dolce Vita
RIMINI, Italy (Reuters) - Federico Fellini's classic film "La Dolce Vita" is approaching the half-century mark and the director's hometown is pulling out the stops to give it a Felliniesque two-year-long international birthday bash.
The celebrations for the film, which Fellini conceived in 1958, shot in 1959 and premiered in early 1960, will extend to Los Angeles in 2009 in a fittingly drawn-out tribute to the man who liked to say "why use two words when 10 will do?"
As part of the 50th-anniversary initiatives, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars , will hold an exhibition from January 24- Apr. 19 on Fellini's "Book of my Dreams" at its headquarters in Beverly Hills.
But Rimini kicked off the party last week with an international convention on " La Dolce Vita ." It included speeches by critics, a sociologist, a psychoanalyst, a composer, an etymologist and even a priest.
For two days they discussed, dissected and debated every aspect of a 178-minute long, black-and-white film that changed cinema history.
Fellini, who died in Rome in 1993, is a god among film buffs and the "La Dolce Vita" is an icon. So it was no surprise that for some the convention was akin to a religious experience, a chance to venerate a relic along with fellow believers.
"Our role is to conserve and transmit the historical memory of Federico Fellini ," Vittorio Boarini, director of the foundation that bears the late director's name, said solemnly.
The foundation holds seminars and exhibitions, publishes books and even has a quarterly review of "Fellinian Studies," including such weighty topics as the significance of trains and the sea in Fellini's expressionism.
"Fellini was an artist whose influence, whose cultural and intellectual power, went far beyond cinema. His creativity, his drawings, his writings, the music he chose, influenced art and society in general," said Boarini.
Last week the foundation opened an exhibition called "The Books of My House," where devotees can see the volumes he kept at home that influenced him -- from comic books and murder mysteries to Freud and Socrates.
MORE FLESH IN A DEODORANT AD
"La Dolce Vita," starring Marcello Mastroianni , Anita Ekberg and Anouk Aimee , was considered scandalous at the time of its release but is quite tame by the standards of today, where more flesh can be seen in a television deodorant advert.
In seven loosely connected episodes, Mastroianni, playing reporter Marcello, covers the escapades of residual nobility, nouveau riche, starlets and hangers-on of the cafe set on Rome's Via Veneto as he struggles to find meaning in his own life.
A bored rich woman (Anouk Aimee) takes Marcello in her Cadillac to the squalid house of a prostitute because making love there would be more exciting than in her palatial estate.
In its emblematic scene, Sylvia, a towering phosphorescent blonde diva played by Ekberg, lures Marcello into a sensual midnight wade in the cold waters of Rome's Trevi Fountain.
In the film, Marcello chronicles events with his inseparable sidekick, a photographer whose last name is Paparazzo: the name now in dictionaries in nearly every language meaning aggressive street photographers.
"The phrase ' Dolce Vita ' or 'the sweet life' and the word paparazzo have become part of every day American language," said Ellen Harrington of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in California.
"The film really foretold where we are at with the celebrity culture in America, which is so saturated and so over the top. The paparazzi are everywhere and my small children know the word already because our lives in Los Angeles are kind of impinged by the existence of these creatures," she said.
Fellini based the role of Paparazzo on the real-life antics of Tazio Secchiaroli , a legendary photographer who died in 1998.
Various explanations for why Fellini chose the surname Paparazzo exist. One is because its last syllable -- azzo -- rhymes with "cazzo," the vulgar Italian slang word for penis.
When the film came out, the Vatican said it should be re-titled "The Disgusting Life" and an irate elderly woman even grabbed Fellini in Rome and told him to "tie a stone around your neck and drown in the deepest sea."
MORAL MESSAGE
The notoriety only helped raise its profile outside Italy. " La Dolce Vita " went on to influence scores of directors and still leaves its mark on new generations.
"Even my students today say it has a moral message," said teacher Luisa Rizzo, taking her high school class to the convention. "They identify the false values, superficiality and anxieties of the film's characters with the society they live in today."
The Academy's 2009 exhibition, on "Fellini Oniricon-The Book of my Dreams," will open at its headquarters in Beverly Hills two days after the Oscar nominations. Fellini won five Oscars .
"There have been very few filmmakers who were able to transcend their moment in time and transfer their work across borders the way he did," said the Academy's Harrington.
"I think Fellini was a very moral filmmaker. He was very prophetic but at the same time he examined the range of human behavior. 'La Dolce Vita' inspires a range of emotions -- lust, envy, desire, horror, repulsion," she said.
The huge two-volume work that will go to Hollywood consists of the nocturnal notes and sketches, many of them sexual, which Fellini quickly put to paper on waking in the night.
It is full of drawings of the type of big-busted and curvy women who populated his fantasies and films.
One entry is about a 1963 dream in which he has oral sex with Anita Ekberg while riding on a train in Italy.
"It would have been unthinkable to publish some of these 50 years ago when 'La Dolce Vita' came out," said Gianluigi Rossi, an Italian lawyer who was instrumental in the Academy show.
"Today, I don't think anybody is going to bat a eyelid."
Quote from: bigideas on June 04, 2006, 12:47:22 AM
i've been looking in to buying this film for a while.
so now i beg the question:
2 disc or 3 disc with $17 dollar difference?
ha. i never got this.
damn you all and your unwillingness to help.
The 2-disc will suffice but Amazon.com has the Deluxe edition on sale now. A solid grab, do it.