ROMA (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1972
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Travelogue, memoir, and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. Leisurely one moment and breathless the next, this urban fantasia by Federico Fellini interweaves recollections of the director's young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome, where he and his film crew are shooting footage of the bustling cityscape. The material delights of sex, food, nightlife, and one hallucinatory ecclesiastical fashion show are shot through with glimmers of a monumental past: the Colosseum encircled by traffic, ancient frescoes unearthed in a subway tunnel, a pigeon-befouled statue of Julius Caesar. With a head-spinning mix of documentary immediacy and extravagant artifice, Roma penetrates the myth and mystique of Italy's storied capital, a city Fellini called 'the most wonderful movie set in the world.';
• Cast: Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence, Pia De Doses, Marne Maitland, Renato Giovannoli, Elisa Mainardi, Galliano Sbarra, Anna Magnani, Stefano Mayore, Vito Abbonato, Alfredo Adami, Sbarra Adami, Bireno, Luisa Bixio, Augusto Brenna, Sisto Brunetti, Arnaldo Caivano, Aristide Caporale, Giuseppe Cardone, Angelo Casadei, Lucia Cavalieri, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Gianluigi Chirizzi, Dennis Christopher, Alfredo Ciarpelloni, Franco Citti, Dante Cleri, Nancy Cohen, Franz Colangeli, Angela De Leo, Olga De Marco, Rolando De Santis, Maria De Sisti, Mario Del Vago, Francesco Di Giacomo, Gianni Di Segni, Giovanna Di Vita, Alberigo Donadeo, John P. Dulaney, Andrea Fantasia, Federico Fellini, Libero Frissi, Biagio Gambini, Nella Gambini, Norma Giacchero, Veriano Ginesi, Eleonora Giorgi, Mario Ingrassia, Gudrun Mardou Khiess, John Francis Lane, Franco Magno, Eleonora Marchianti, Cesare Martignoni, Loredana Martinez, Ettore Martini, Petar Martinovitch, Marcello Mastroianni, Chuck McCann, Adalberto Maria Merli, Romano Moraschini, Elliott Murphy, Paola Natale, Nello Palladino, Ada Passeri, Raout Paule, Fulvio Pellegrino, Filippo Perego, Anna Maria Pescatori, Cassandra Peterson, Gene Poe, Mimmo Poli, Antonio Proietti, Marie Párová, Alessandro Quasimodo, Ivana Rumor, Amerigo Santarelli, Giovanni Serboli, Alberto Sordi, Guglielmo Spoletini, Maria Tedeschi, Nino Terzo, Filippo Trincia, Franco Venditti, Gore Vidal, Alvaro Vitali, Renato Zero, Bernardino Zapponi
• Director: Federico Fellini
• Runtime: 2:00
• Company: Ital-Noleggio Cinematografico, Ultra Film s.p.a., Les Productions Artistes Associés, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie