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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780022270
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780022270
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Criterion
Release Date: September 14, 1999
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 24307
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1983
Editorial Review:
Description:
In Fellini's quirky, imaginative fable, a motley crew of European aristocrats (and a lovesick rhinoceros!) board a luxurious ocean liner on the eve of World War I to scatter the ashes of a beloved diva. Fabricated entirely in Rome's famed Cinecittà studios, And the Ship Sails On (E la nave va) reaches spectacular new visual heights with its stylized re-creation of a decadent bygone era. Criterion is proud to present this rarely-seen gem in an exclusive widescreen transfer with new English subtitles.
Amazon.com:
Federico Fellini's 1984 And the Ship Sails On is one of the late master's most fanciful projects, while simultaneously striking one of the most somber notes in the director's filmography. The year is 1914, the eve of World War I and the coming destruction of Europe's old, cultured aristocracy, an elite class mourned in many a film from Renoir's The Grand Illusion to Truffaut's The Green Room. A luxury liner sets sail from Italy, full of artists, a royal entourage, and one rhinoceros. The point of the voyage is to scatter the ashes of a world-famous diva, but the exotic passengers--blithely unaware of the imminent conflict--have many, more private intrigues going on behind closed doors. Still, it is the self-containment and formality of these travelers, at once absurd and moving, that sticks with the viewer: the way the many singers, musicians, and conductors (and one plump archduke) seem aware, in public, of embodying a privileged history. Fellini films all the action aboard an impressively lush and blatantly artificial set, with a painted sky, paper moon, and cellophane sea, all underscoring the dreamy, precious nature of this adventure. The camera itself becomes a kind of character via a determined journalist (Freddie Jones) who speaks to us directly, drawing the film into vaguely obscene disruptions of an otherwise serene formalism. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Another underrated Fellini film...
This is really a charming, sweet, intelligent chapter in the Fellini saga. Made in 1983, when great film artists like Fellini were having difficulty getting projects financed, it stands as another underrated gem from Federico. Many critics have said that Fellini never made a good film after Amarcord, but that simply isn't true. This film is as wonderful as that film. It's not as surreal as 8 1/2, but it still stands on its own. The opening scene is shot on an old hand crank camera, and it's ... Read More
Rating: - A charmer.
I love the poetic, dreamlike quality of this film, and the absolute sweetness of the whole concept. Doesn't always make linear sense, but it always makes emotional sense, and I suspect that was what Fellini intended. And Freddie Jones is simply perfect as Orlando, a gently clownish figure who is never allowed to become just a buffoon. Admittedly, I've had a crush on Mr. Jones, ever since seeing him in "The Bliss of Mrs Blossom" as a teenager, lo these many years ago. Can't help it, I'm a sucker ... Read More
Rating: - A brilliant film
You will sit stunned watching this movie. It's an effortless masterpiece by a genius, a legend. It's also playful and funny as hell. Definitely worth acquiring. I love a good movie, and this is about as good as they get. A well-told story is a true joy.
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Rating: - Poetic Masterpiece
A beautiful film, taken in a studio, unforgetable scenes, Fellini at his best.
Rating: - Baroque modernity (for mature audiences only)
If Walter Benjamin were a filmmaker, he would have been the late Federico Fellini. I can see how or why younger audiences wouldn't enjoy this film, just as I can understand how unabashedly smitten I am with it. Here, Fellini does away with the gimmicks, the psychologism, and the will to novelty, which characterize his earlier films. "E il navo va" superimposes and juxtaposes a series of histories in counterpoint -- Italy before the war, art in the age of mechanical reproduction, and Fellini's ... Read More
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