Roma

Travelogue, memoir, and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. 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, where he and his film crew are shooting footage of the bustling cityscape. The material delights of sex, food, nightlife, and one hallucinatory ecclesiastical fashion show are shot through with glimmers of a monumental past: the Colosseum encircled by traffic, ancient frescoes unearthed in a subway tunnel, a pigeon-befouled statue of Caesar. With a head-spinning mix of documentary immediacy and extravagant artifice, Roma penetrates the myth and mystique of Italy’s storied capital, a city Fellini called “the most wonderful movie set in the world.”

Italy
1972
120 minutes
Color
1.85:1
Italian
Spine #848

Special Features

2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring Frank Burke, author of Fellini’s Films
Deleted scenes
New interview with filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino on the lasting influence of director Federico Fellini
New interview with poet and Fellini friend Valerio Magrelli
Images from the Felliniana archive of collector Don Young
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Forgacs

Cover by Brecht Evens

Blu‑ray 1 Disc $27.96 SRP: $39.95

DVD 1 Disc $20.96 SRP: $29.95

Collector's Sets

Collector's Set

Essential Fellini

Blu-ray Box Set

15 Discs

$199.96

Special Features

2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring Frank Burke, author of Fellini’s Films
Deleted scenes
New interview with filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino on the lasting influence of director Federico Fellini
New interview with poet and Fellini friend Valerio Magrelli
Images from the Felliniana archive of collector Don Young
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Forgacs

Cover by Brecht Evens

Cast & Credits

Cast

Peter Gonzales: Federico Fellini, age eighteen
Fiona Florence: Dolores
Pia De Doses: Princess Domitilla
Renato Giovannoli: Cardinal Ottaviani
Dennis Christopher: The hippie
Feodor Chaliapin Jr.: Julius Caesar
Elliott Murphy: Extra
Anna Magnani: Playing herself
Marcello Mastroianni: Playing himself
Gore Vidal: Playing himself
John Francis Lane: Playing himself
Federico Fellini: Playing himself

Credits

Director: Federico Fellini
Story and screenplay by: Federico Fellini
Story and screenplay by: Bernardino Zapponi
Produced by: Turi Vasile
Music by: Nino Rota
Cinematography by: Giuseppe Rotunno
Edited by: Ruggero Mastroianni
Production design and costumes by: Danilo Donati
Set decoration by: Andrea Fantacci

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Federico Fellini

Writer, Director

One of Italy’s great modern directors, Federico Fellini was a larger-than-life maestro who created an inimitable cinematic style combining surreal carnival with incisive social critique. While his most popular—and accessible—film, the darkly nostalgic childhood memoir Amarcord, is a great entryway into his oeuvre, 8½, a collage of memories, dreams, and fantasies about a director’s artistic crisis, is perhaps his masterpiece. In his early career, Fellini was both a screenwriter for neorealist pioneer Roberto Rossellini and a newspaper caricaturist in postwar Rome, competing influences he would bring together with startling results. After such early works as I vitelloni, Fellini broke away from neorealism’s political strictures with the beloved La strada, and from there boldly explored his obsessions with the circus, societal decadence, spiritual redemption, and, most controversially, women, in such films as Nights of Cabiria, Juliet of the Spirits, and And the Ship Sails On.