Claudia Cardinale
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Maggie is an uptight, single mother who, in an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, takes her to the Tuscan village where she used to visit in her youth. There Maggie runs into her former lover Luca and his mother, Carmen. When Summer and Carmen impulsively steal Luca's car and race off to Rome, Maggie and Luca follow in close pursuit.
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Language
Italiano
Description
After the reunification of Italy, an aging Sicilian prince sees his influence slipping away, the growth of national movements and his nephew's attempts to take power.
4) Fitzcarraldo
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Deutsch
Description
Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Summer of 1943. In occupied France, not far from the Spanish border, a famous old sculptor, who is tired of life and wars, finds the desire to work again on his last masterpiece when a beautiful young Spanish girl comes knocking after escaping a refugee camp in the South of France.
6) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
Series
Criterion collection volume 113
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Italiano
Description
Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home.
8) 8 1/2
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
Italiano
Description
"[The film] follows burned-out celebrity director Guido through a series of daily encounters and wild daydreams, the first of which finds him ascending into the clouds during a traffic jam. Seeking solace and rejuvenation at a remote health spa for the rich and privileged, he continues to encounter journalists, his producer, his mistress, and most inconvenient of all, his aloof wife, Luisa. Flashing among past, present, future and fantasy, Guido longs...
9) Effie Gray
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A sumptuous historical drama set against a luscious backdrop exploring the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin, his young bride Effie Gray, and his protǧ,̌ painter John Everett Millais. After marrying Ruskin, Effie quickly realizes her marriage is a lie when Ruskin refuses to consummate it. Yearning for affection, she soon falls for the charms of the charismatic Millais.
10) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's acclaimed semi-autobiographical film that wanders through his life and fantasies. Bonus features include rare photographs, interviews, documentaries, commentary, and a booklet featuring essays by critics Tullio Kezich and Alexander Sesonske and writings by Fellini.
11) The leopard
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special edizione ; DVD edizione.
Language
Italiano
Description
Set in Sicily in the 1800s, this film depicts Prince Salina, a great landowner, who watches the decrease of the aristocracy's power and influence during the 'Il Risorgimento', the unification of Italy under the royal House of Savoy. The upper class tries to ignore the nationalist movements, while the prince's rebellious nephew joins Giuseppe Garibaldi's revolutionaries.
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
Language
Italiano
Description
Variety lights: A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
The white sheik: During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
I vitelloni: Details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to...
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