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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780021976
Format: Black & White, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780021975
Label: Criterion
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoItalianOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Criterion
MPN: PMIDSTR270D
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1954
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Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 11/18/2003 Run time: 108 minutes
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Considered by many to be Federico Fellini's most beautiful and powerful film, La Strada was the first film to reveal the range of Guilietta Masina, whose poignant performance as the childlike Gelsomina recalls Chaplin's Little Tramp. The bubbly, waiflike Gelsomina is a simpleton sold to the gruff, bullying circus strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn) as a servant and assistant. Treated no better than an animal, Gelsomina nonetheless falls in love with the brute Zampanò. When they join a small circus they meet Il Matto (Richard Basehart), a clown who enchants Gelsomina and relentlessly taunts Zampanò, whose inability to control his hatred of Il Matto (literally, "the Fool") leads to their expulsion from the circus and eventually to the film's fateful conclusion. Masina is heartbreaking as the wide-eyed innocent, whose generous spirit and love of life leads her to try to "save" Quinn's unfeeling, brutal Zampanò. Though the film resonates with mythic and biblical dimensions, Fellini never loses sight of his characters, lovingly painted in all their frailties and failings. Fellini's lyrical style reaches back to the simple beauty of his neorealist films and looks ahead to the impressionistic fantasies of later films, but at this unique period in Fellini's career, they combine to create a poetic, tragic masterpiece. --Sean Axmaker
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I first saw La Strada when I was working as a usher at the Oriental Theater in Milwaukee in the early 70's. It played twice a night for two weeks and I never got tired of it. I have had it as a Beta tape, Laser disk and now DVD. This is by far the best quality transfer of one of my favorite films. Wonderful!
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This rather bleak picture of human nature is obscured by the mixed feelings we see Director Federico Fellini bestow upon the wretched characters in this intense black and white 1954 Italian film. The simplistic theme of La Strada reminds me of the famous Alfred Hitchcock classic, Rear Window, with Jimmy Stewart's amazing charm running the show. While a bored photojournalist, laid up with a broken leg, spies on his neighbors, he suspects one of them (Raymond Burr) has committed murder. What could ... Read More
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A simple but effective fable, La Strada has been romanced all out of proportion but at its core it's a well-made little movie; if you don't expect anything more than an uncomplicated but well-acted film, you're likely to be pleased with what Fellini serves up.
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I feel too small to do this but its by way of tribute. When Mr. Fellini made this film, Europe was still recovering from the war. But, most importantly, from the great challenge that Hitler and Facism had posed to human existance: that anyone who did not contribute something to society did not have a right to live. With this film Mr. Fellini masterfully answers this challenge, exposing it for the lie that it is. "Il Matto" put the answer into words when consoling the heart broken Gelsomina. She felt ... Read More
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Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini's 1954 black and white film La Strada (The Road) is one of those films that is midway between his early Neo-Realism and his later Magical Realism, with touches of both aplenty. It made both him and its female lead, his wife Giulieta Masina, stars, won the 1954 Venice Film Festival's top award and the 1956 Best Foreign Picture Academy Award, yet there is something missing from it. It is a good film, arguably a very good or near-great film, but it is definitely not a ... Read More
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