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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781417200818
Format: Box set, Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, DVD-Video, Enhanced, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1417200812
Label: Koch Lorber Films
Manufacturer: Koch Lorber Films
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Koch Lorber Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 08, 2005
Running Time: 174 minutes
Sales Rank: 25314
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
Theatrical Release Date: April 19, 1961
Editorial Review:
Description:
One of the most influential and popular works by Federico Fellini, LA DOLCE VITA follows the 'sweet life' of a tabloid journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) who covers the glitzy show business life in Rome. In constant search for the next big scandal, he is continually seduced by the decadent life led by Rome’s pampered rich.
COLLECTIBLE MATERIALS
• 40 Page Collector’s Booklet with essay by Italian Cinema and Fellini expert, Peter Bondanella (author of the book Italian Cinema: From Neorealist to the Present)
• Five 5' x 7' Collectible Photo Cards
• 11x17 Poster
DVD Extras
Disc 1 – Main Program
• Introduction by acclaimed director Alexander Payne
• Audio commentary by noted critic & film historian Richard Schickel
Disc 2 – Bonus Materials
• Fellini TV – Collection of Never-Before-Seen Fellini shorts
• Remembering the Sweet Life – Interviews with Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg
• Cinecitta: The House of Fellini – Musical montage of Fellini’s beloved studio
• Fellini, Roma and Cinecitta – Interview with Fellini
• Extensive Photo Gallery
• Restoration Demo
• Biographies
• Filmographies
Disc 3 – Bonus Materials
• Nino Rota Documentary
• Interview with Anita Ekberg (2004)
• Interview with Federico Fellini from France TV (1960)
• Marcello Mastroianni speaking about La Dolce Vita on France TV (1960)
• Discussion with Fellini’s closest friend and colleague, Rinaldo Gelend, on La Dolce Vita themes
• Footage with the last surviving La Dolce Vita screenwriter, Tullio Pinelli
Technical Features
Languages: Italian, English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Audio: Original mono track, Stereo track, 5.1 Surround Sound
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, Enhanced by 16x9
Running Time: 174 minutes
Extra Features: 162 minutes
Amazon.com essential video:
At three brief hours, La Dolce Vita, a piece of cynical, engrossing social commentary, stands as Federico Fellini's timeless masterpiece. A rich, detailed panorama of Rome's modern decadence and sophisticated immorality, the film is episodic in structure but held tightly in focus by the wandering protagonist through whom we witness the sordid action. Marcello Rubini (extraordinarily played by Marcello Mastroianni) is a tabloid reporter trapped in a shallow high-society existence. A man of paradoxical emotional juxtapositions (cool but tortured, sexy but impotent), he dreams about writing something important but remains seduced by the money and prestige that accompany his shallow position. He romanticizes finding true love but acts unfazed upon finding that his girlfriend has taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Instead, he engages in an ménage à trois, then frolics in a fountain with a giggling American starlet (bombshell Anita Ekberg), and in the film's unforgettably inspired finale, attends a wild orgy that ends, symbolically, with its participants finding a rotting sea animal while wandering the beach at dawn. Fellini saw his film as life affirming (thus its title, The Sweet Life), but it's impossible to take him seriously. While Mastroianni drifts from one worldly pleasure to another, be it sex, drink, glamorous parties, or rich foods, they are presented, through his detached eyes, are merely momentary distractions. His existence, an endless series of wild evenings and lonely mornings, is ultimately soulless and facile. Because he lacks the courage to change, Mastroianni is left with no alternative but to wearily accept and enjoy this 'sweet' life. --Dave McCoy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Unauthorized payments on Amazon
I was charged a month later for "Amazon Prime" which I did not sign up for, nor did I authorize the charge, which will cause overdrafts in my bank account. I am very displeased that Amazon would not ask me to authorize this charge or even send me an e-mail informing me of it. I have cancelled this "membership" as soon as I discovered the charge, but as it will not process for 1-2 business days, my bank account will still be overdrawn, leaving me with over $100 in NSF fees. I was told by customer ... Read More
Rating:  - Fellini's voice
La Dolce Vita is a travelogue of one man's singular and unique experience. Fellini spares us the familiar arc and keeps the journey in a steady rhythm. There has never been a film before it that has captured tragedy, comedy, music, philosophy, romance, and social commentary in such a naturalistic style, yet it could not have been done without flawless preparation. Every scene has been one way or another an influence in cinema ever since.
Rating: - its good to be a king
I always been against old movies as they demonstrate freedom of speech didnt start till 21 century but I manage to watch this opus.
Short resume is--its good to be a king--when you dont have to worry about bread for today and tomorrow you start making nonsense called La Dolche Vita.
Rating: - Titanic film
La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life), as ironic a title as has ever been used in motion picture history, Federico Fellini's 1960 film commentary on modern hedonism and anomy, and filmed in 1959 in Rome, may just be the best film in his canon, for it combines the Neo-Realism of earlier classics like La Strada and Nights Of Cabiria, while admixing some of the surreal touches of his later classics. Plus, it is the best written and most ambitious of his films. In many ways, its lead star, Marcello Mastroianni, ... Read More
Rating:  - Possibly one of the most boring of all classic films
A staple of "Best of" guides, beloved by critics, a huge success on its release and...one of the most boring films you will ever see.
Self-indulgent and gargantuan in length, you will be left wondering what all the fuss is about - and why Fellini is so over-rated.
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