Nino Rota
1) The clowns
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's fascination with the circus and the surreal come to a head in one of his final masterpieces, The clowns. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a "docu-comedy", this film explores deeper human conditions that resonate through the various clowns who vary from a local sex-crazed hobo, a midget nun, to a mutilated...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, an iconic box-office record shattering adaptation, stars seventeen-year-old Leonard Whiting as Romeo and fifteen-year-old Olivia Hussey as Juliet. The raw talent of these leads capture the youth and innocence of the legendary characters like never before in what has gone down in history as one of the most profitable film adaptations of Shakespeare ever produced. Winner of...
Series
Language
English
Description
"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...
6) Amarcord
Series
Criterion collection volume 4
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Edition
Special edition; widescreen version.
Language
Italiano
Description
Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.
7) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographically-inspired film about a famous film director (Guido Anselmi) who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film, and retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Petruchio, a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona, journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After a honeymoon of mutual insults, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. But has Kate found a better way to dominate her husband?