AMARCORD(DVD) (RE-ISSUE) DVD

Amarcord
Federico Fellini's warmly nostalgic memory piece examines daily life in the Italian village of Rimini during the reign of Mussolini, and won the 1974 Academy Award as Best Foreign Film. The film's greatest asset is its ability to be sweet without being cloying, due in great part to Danilo Donati's surrealistic art direction and to the frequently bawdy injections of sex and politics by screenwriters Fellini and Tonino Guerra. Fellini clearly has deep affection for the people of this seaside village, warts and all, and communicates it through episodic visual anecdotes which are seen as if through the mists of a favorite dream, playfully scored by Nino Rota and lovingly photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Cast Bruno Zanin as Titta Pupella Maggio as Titta's Mother Armando Brancia as Titta's Father Magali Noël as Gradisca Ciccio Ingrassia as Uncle Teo Nando Orfei as Pataca Luigi Rossi as Lawyer

Crew Danilo Donati - Costume Designer Federico Fellini - Director Ruggero Mastroianni - Editor Nino Rota - Composer (Music Score) Carlo Savina - Musical Direction/Supervision Danilo Donati - Production Designer Giuseppe Rotunno - Cinematographer Franco Cristaldi - Producer Federico Fellini - Screenwriter Tonino Guerra - Screenwriter

Amarcord
"Amarcord" is the phonetic translation of the Italian words "Mi Ricordo" (I remember) as pronounced in the dialect of Emilia-Romagna, the birthplace of director Federico Fellini and the setting of this wonderful film. Little surprise, then, that it is a poignant and bawdy semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale, with an ethereal, dreamlike quality that combines sharply drawn memories with vividly engaging fantasy. Like William Wordsworth, Fellini implies that the child is father to the man, and Amarcord is a both a lament for and an homage to his hometown. Employing a picaresque style, Fellini expertly weaves the tales of a wild menagerie of characters in pre-WW II Italy. No mere sentimentalist, he also tackles the prickly issue of the emergence of Fascism. The film takes careful aim at fanatics, while conserving its empathy for the lost, questing, confused, and lonely individuals in its midst. The family at the center of it all, loosely based on Fellini's own, is a well-drawn melange of coarse, pathetic, colorful, clever, and cranky characters. While Fellini does not choose nostalgic sepia tones, he does shoot much of the film in muted colors that seem slightly out-of-focus, as if he were attempting to transport us into a dreamlike state. Blending scenes of pathos and humor, vulgar carnal desire and transcendent magical illumination (the peacock's standing in the newly fallen snow, spreading its magnificent plumage is this film's signature image), Amarcord won the lion's share of 1974's Best Foreign Film awards, including the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review, the Golden Globe, and the Academy Award, and it remains a triumph of personal filmmaking. ~ Dan Jardine, All Movie Guide
 

Federico Fellini: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Director (nominated) Federico Fellini: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Original Screenplay (nominated) Federico Fellini: New York Film Critics Circle, Best Director (winner) Tonino Guerra: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Original Screenplay (nominated)

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Foreign Language Film (winner) Golden Globe, Best Foreign Film (nominated) National Board of Review, Best Foreign Film (winner) New York Film Critics Circle, Best Picture (winner)

General Specifications: Language Options: Italian Subtitle Options: English Sound Processing: DD1: Dolby Digital Mono Additional Features: Disc One: New, restored high-definition digital transfer Audio commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke American release trailer Deleted scene Optional English-dubbed soundtrack New and improved English subtitle translation Disc Two: New, 45-minute documentary, Fellini's Homecoming, on the complicated relationship between the celebrated director, his hometown, and his past Video interview with star Magali Noël Fellini's drawings of characters in the film "Felliniana," a presentation of ephemera devoted to Amarcord, from the collection of Don Young Audio interviews with Fellini, his friends, and family by Gideon Bachmann New restoration demonstration Plus: A book featuring a new essay by scholar Sam Rohdie, authot of Fellini Lexicon, and the full text of Fellini's 1967 essay "My Rimini" DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1: Theatre Wide-Screen MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 2 DVD Sides: 2 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 123 min Part of Series: The Criterion Collection   DVD Chapters: Disc #1 -- Amarcord 1. Logos/Credits [2:17] 2. Puffballs [2:20] 3. Burning the Witch of Winter [5:11] 4. Smoldering in the Ashes [1:53] 5. The Lawyer [1:38] 6. The School [7:54] 7. Volpina and Poetry [2:13] 8. Table Mannerisms [7:12] 9. Following Gradisca's Derriere [4:20] 10. Touching Confessions [5:48] 11. Parading Fascists [5:48] 12. "The Internationale" [3:37] 13. "Something to Drink?" [5:41] 14. The Grand Hotel [7:09] 15. Il Bel Mondo Cha Cha Cha [1:27] 16. Uncle Teo [3:09] 17. "I Want a Woman!" [6:58] 18. Il Rex [8:05] 19. Floating in the Fog [7:01] 20. An Uplifting Experience [8:08] 21. Snowfall [5:56] 22. A Visit to the Hospital [4:46] 23. The Peacock [1:47] 24. The Funeral [1:49] 25. Gradisca Finds Her Gary Cooper [5:46] 26. Color Bars [5:39] Disc #2 -- Amarcord 1. Federico and Rimini [7:39] 2. Realism [5:07] 3. Rimini's Characters [9:29] 4. Fascism [8:19] 5. Collaborators [3:38] 6. A Popular Film [3:45] 7. Fellini's Homecoming [6:15]