Otello Martelli
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Italiano
Appears on list
Description
Marcello Rubini, a frustrated 'serious' writer, does tabloid journalism to make ends meet. He spends every evening in Via Veneto awaiting the next scandal, party invitation, or sexual proposition. From an enigmatic woman named Maddalena, to wealthy intellectual Steiner's penthouse, to a famous actress named Sylvia, Marcello finds himself caught up in the carnival spectacle of nightlife and its fleeting happiness. The empty evenings seem to weave together,...
2) La strada
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
3) Il Bidone
Publisher
GMVS
Pub. Date
[200?]
Language
Italiano
Description
A group of petty swindlers fails to move into the higher criminal bracket. [Halliwell's].
Series
Criterion collection volume 498
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Italiano
Description
A series of six vignettes, each vignette showing the story of one Allied soldier and his interactions with the Italian people he meets, during and after the liberation of Italy.
5) Stromboli
Series
Criterion collection volume 672
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee marries a simple Italian fisherman she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily. Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany.
Series
Criterion collection volume 733
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.
7) Stromboli
Series
Criterion collection volume 672
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Italiano
Description
After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee marries a simple Italian fisherman she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily. Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany.
8) Boccaccio 70
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Italiano
Description
Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide it from her employer; plus they need a room of their own. A billboard of Anita Ekberg provocatively selling milk gives a prudish crusader for public decency more than he can handle. The wife of a count whose escapades with call girls make the front page of the papers decides to work to prove her independence, but what is she qualified...