Criterion Collection Announces 15-Disc ‘Essential Fellini’ Set In Honor Of Director’s 100th Birthday

The Criterion Collection has officially announced that The Essential Fellini will be available on Blu-Ray on November 24, 2020. The set will include 14 of the feature films from acclaimed director Federico Fellini together for the first time on 15 discs along with two books of essays, notes and more. This collection coincides with the 100th birthday of the famous auteur. Get all the details on this magnificent set below.

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Joining in the international celebration of Federico Fellini’s 100th birthday, Criterion is thrilled to announce Essential Fellini, a fifteen-Blu-ray box set that brings together fourteen of the director’s most imaginative and uncompromising works for the first time. Alongside new restorations of the theatrical features, the set also includes short and full-length documentaries about Fellini’s life and work, archival interviews with his friends and collaborators, commentaries on six of the films, video essays, the director’s 1968 short Toby Dammit, and much more.

FIFTEEN-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR’S SET FEATURES

* New 4K restorations of 11 theatrical features, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks for all films

* New digital restorations of the short film Toby Dammit (1968) and the television film Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969), with uncompressed monaural soundtracks

* Feature documentaries Fellini: I’m a Born Liar (2002) and Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (1997), the latter presented in its 193-minute version

* Two-hour, four-part 1960 interview with director Federico Fellini by filmmaker André Delvaux for Belgian television

* Four behind-the-scenes documentaries: Reporter’s Diary: “Zoom on Fellini” (1965), Ciao, Federico! (1969), The Secret Diary of “Amarcord” (1974), and Fellini racconta: On the Set of “And the Ship Sails On” (1983)

* Fellini racconta: Passegiatte nella memoria, a 2000 documentary featuring interviews with a late-in-life Fellini

* Giulietta Masina: The Power of a Smile, a 2004 documentary about Fellini’s wife and frequent collaborator

* Once Upon a Time: “La dolce vita,” a French television documentary about the film

* Audio commentaries on six of the films

* Program from 2003 on Fellini’s 1980s television advertising work

* Archival interviews with Fellini stars and collaborators, including Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Anouk Aimée, and Magali Noël

* Archival audio interviews by film critic Gideon Bachmann with Fellini, Mastroianni, and Fellini’s friends and family

* Video essays, trailers, and more

* PLUS: Deluxe packaging, including two lavishly illustrated books with hundreds of pages of content: notes on the films by scholar David Forgacs, essays by filmmakers Michael Almereyda, Kogonada, and Carol Morley; film critics Bilge Ebiri and Stephanie Zacharek; and novelist Colm Tóibín, and dozens of images spotlighting Don Young’s renowned collection of Fellini memorabilia

The Films

VARIETY LIGHTS (1950)

THE WHITE SHEIK (1952)

I VITELLONI (1953)

LA STRADA (1954)

IL BIDONE (1955)

NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957)

LA DOLCE VITA (1960)

8½ (1963)

JULIET OF THE SPIRITS (1965)

FELLINI SATYRICON (1969)

ROMA (1972)

AMARCORD (1973)

AND THE SHIP SAILS ON (1983)

INTERVISTA (1987)

Dillon Gonzales

Dillon is most comfortable sitting around in a theatre all day watching both big budget and independent movies.