![]() Though a significant improvement over Criterion’s previous DVD edition for the film (which used an older standard-definition restoration that was, at the very least, progressive) it’s clear the materials were pretty rough to begin with. The film has received an all-new 4K restoration and is presented here with a 1080p/24hz high-definition encode in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. The second dual-layer disc in Criterion’s latest Blu-ray box set, Essential Fellini, presents his first solo outing as director, The White Sheik. Bringing together fourteen of the director’s greatest spectacles, all beautifully restored, this centenary box set is a monument to an artist who conjured a cinematic universe all his own: a vision of the world as a three-ring circus in which his innermost infatuations, fears, and fantasies take center stage. He began his career working in the slice-of-life poetry of neorealism, and though he soon spun off on his own freewheeling creative axis, he never lost that grounding, evoking his dreams, memories, and obsessions on increasingly grand scales in increasingly grand productions teeming with carnivalesque imagery and flights of phantasmagoric surrealism while maintaining an earthy, embodied connection to humanity. The Italian maestro is defined by his dualities: the sacred and the profane, the masculine and the feminine, the provincial and the urbane. One hundred years after his birth, Federico Fellini still stands apart as a giant of the cinema. ![]() ![]() See more details, packaging, or compare Synopsis ![]()
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