Press Release Criterion Press Release: La Strada (1954) (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

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With this breakthrough film, Federico Fellini launched both himself and his wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina to international stardom, breaking with the neorealism of his early career in favor of a personal, poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival. The infinitely expressive Masina registers both childlike wonder and heartbreaking despair as Gelsomina, loyal companion to the traveling strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn, in a toweringly physical performance), whose callousness and brutality gradually wear down her gentle spirit. Winner of the very first Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, La strada possesses the purity and timeless resonance of a fable and remains one of cinema’s most exquisitely moving visions of humanity struggling to survive in the face of life’s cruelties.
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FILM INFO​

• Italy
• 1954
• 108 minutes
• Black & White
• 1.37:1
• Italian
• Spine #219

SPECIAL FEATURES​

• 4K digital restoration, undertaken in collaboration with The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack, featuring the voices of Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart
• Audio commentary from 2003 by Peter Bondanella, author of The Cinema of Federico Fellini
• Introduction from 2003 by filmmaker Martin Scorsese
• Giulietta Masina: The Power of a Smile, a documentary from 2004
• Federico Fellini’s Autobiography, a documentary originally broadcast on Italian television in 2000
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Christina Newland
  
  New cover based on an original poster by Ebeling Hegewald

Coming soon, available Nov 2, 2021

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[Dick]

I have LA STRADA on Blu, I think from Europe, so I've been hoping for NIGHTS OF CABIRIA. May happen.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

Have the Fellini box set so i will pass on this but like the cover art.

 

[Robert Crawford]

A great release for those that didn't want to purchase the expensive Fellini box or other Region Blu-rays. For me, I can finally replace my 2003 DVD because for some reason, I didn't purchase that other Region Blu-ray.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

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