La Dolce Vita - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

La Dolce Vita - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La dolce vita rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream successironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Romes rich and glamorous, the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist (a sublimely cool Marcello Mastroianni) during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.

The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La dolce vita 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 (a sublimely cool Marcello Mastroianni) during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight. This mordant picture was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of contemporary Europe, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become.

Region B Blu-ray: Australian compatible

Special Features.

• New 4K digital restoration by The Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New interview with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, an assistant director on the film
• New interview with scholar David Forgacs about the period in Italian history when the film was made
• New interview with Italian journalist Antonello Sarno
• Interview with director Federico Fellini from 1965
• Audio interview with actor Marcello Mastroianni from the early 1960s
• Felliniana, a presentation of La dolce vita ephemera from the collection of Don Young
• New visual essay by filmmaker : : kogonada
• PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins