La dolce vita
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The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La dolce vita rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success—ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome’s rich and glamorous, the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist (a sublimely cool Marcello Mastroianni) during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight. This mordant picture was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of contemporary Europe, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become.
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration by The Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, an assistant director on the film
- New interview with scholar David Forgacs about the period in Italian history when the film was made
- New interview with Italian journalist Antonello Sarno
- Interview with director Federico Fellini from 1965
- Audio interview with actor Marcello Mastroianni from the early 1960s
- Felliniana, a presentation of La dolce vita ephemera from the collection of Don Young
- New visual essay by filmmaker : : kogonada
- PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins
Cover by Eric Skillman
Collector's Sets
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration by The Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, an assistant director on the film
- New interview with scholar David Forgacs about the period in Italian history when the film was made
- New interview with Italian journalist Antonello Sarno
- Interview with director Federico Fellini from 1965
- Audio interview with actor Marcello Mastroianni from the early 1960s
- Felliniana, a presentation of La dolce vita ephemera from the collection of Don Young
- New visual essay by filmmaker : : kogonada
- PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins
Cover by Eric Skillman
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Cast
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Marcello Rubini
- Anita Ekberg
- Sylvia
- Anouk Aimée
- Maddalena
- Yvonne Furneaux
- Emma
- Magali Noël
- Fanny
- Alain Cuny
- Steiner
- Annibale Ninchi
- Marcello’s father
- Walter Santesso
- Paparazzo
- Lex Barker
- Robert
- Nadia Gray
- Nadia
- Valeria Ciangottini
- Paola
- Riccardo Garrone
- Riccardo
- Audrey McDonald
- Jane
- Polidor
- Pagliaccio
- Enrico Glori
- Nadia’s lover
Credits
- Director
- Federico Fellini
- Produced by
- Giuseppe Amato
- Produced by
- Angelo Rizzoli Jr.
- Written by
- Federico Fellini
- Written by
- Ennio Flaiano
- Written by
- Tullio Pinelli
- Written by
- Brunello Rondi
- From a story by
- Federico Fellini
- From a story by
- Ennio Flaiano
- From a story by
- Tullio Pinelli
- Music
- Nino Rota
- Cinematography
- Otello Martelli
- Edited by
- Leo Cattozzo
- Production design and costumes
- Piero Gherardi
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