CRITERION COLL: AMARCORD (2PC) / (WS SUB DOL) - CRITERION COLL: AMARCORD (2PC) / (WS SUB DOL)

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• Actors: Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei
• Director: Federico Fellini
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language (Original Language): Italian
• Language (Subtitled): English
• Region Code: 1
• Release Date: 2006-09-05
• Running Time: 123 minutes
• Theatrical Release Date: 1974-01-01

Customer Reviews

Reviewed on 2008-05-05 on the nostalgia wings It's a sincere documentary of the era it depicts. Excellent in every respect thanks also to Criterion treatment.

Reviewed on 2008-05-03 Don't give up on this one... Movie set in the 1930's in a small town in Italy on the Adriatic. The movie initially feels like a series of disconnected and chaotic sequences that lack structure and direction. But hang in there - it comes together masterfully. The story of the town, a young boy growing up, a family and the community dealing with the fascist regime is filled with colorful and whacky characters. It is wrapped in beautiful spell bounding scenes of dandelion seeds drifting in the wind bringing on the spring season - to a wide-winged peacock mesmerizing the watchers in light snow fall - to a massive new ship approaching crude boats as the town watches on from far below. This is a funny, beautiful, dreamlike movie...

Reviewed on 2008-04-15 Fellini's Masterpiece Fellini's most personal film remains his masterpiece--a rich, beautiful pageant of small town life and an examination of one family that is brimming with funny scenes of fantasy and satire, as well as magical moments of intimate nostalgia and pathos as it moves through the cycle of the seasons.

Reviewed on 2007-11-02 Doesn't Withstand the Test of Time What may have passed for great art in the narcissistic seventies must today be seen for crude, overbaked claptrap by a once-great cinematist who was just treading water by 1973. I took this dvd out because some reviewers somewhere wrote that it was better than "La Dolce Vita". It is far worse, in truth, despite being in color while only black and white film was available in 1950's Italy. I also listened to the "learned" commentary on the Critereon Collection disc, trying to derive some meaning from the disjointed and often offensive scenes I was viewing (movie is obsessed with backsides and flatulence). Whatever those guys were seeing, it was in their own minds, not on the screen. I suspect they had no more idea than I what Fellini was trying to say with this mess, but admitting it would never do for professors of film studies. So they pontificated about feminism and the role of women--topics in which Fellini was not interested at all--for two hours!

Reviewed on 2007-08-02 Author Cinema After two deaths at the end of July (Bergman and Antonioni) one more appreciates the revolution in film language, which took place in the 1960s. Fellini has a different spot in this era of Film-Becoming-Poetry. In near future his dicoveries would be valued no less than Eisenstein's or Vertov's. In many ways Amarcord (and Rome) is more sofisticated than 8.5, which is constructed around plot (last cry of modernism), when the PoMo (late) Fellini is focusing story around thought-feeling, that is a true existential EVENT. Is possible for a requiem to be humorous? Dante called it "Divine Comedy" ... I hardly know any episode that doesn't belong to the poem... I think it is a philosophy piece and, maybe, should be viewed as such.

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