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' La strada' (1954) - Blu-ray pre-order available from Criterion Films direct - $31.96
Release date: November 2 "With this breakthrough film, Federico Fellini launched both himself and his wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina to international stardom, breaking with the neorealism of his early career in favor of a personal, poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival. The infinitely expressive Masina registers both childlike wonder and heartbreaking despair as Gelsomina, loyal companion to the traveling strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn, in a toweringly physical performance), whose callousness and brutality gradually wear down her gentle spirit. Winner of the very first Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, La strada possesses the purity and timeless resonance of a fable and remains one of cinema’s most exquisitely moving visions of humanity struggling to survive in the face of life’s cruelties."
Special features: - 4K digital restoration, undertaken in collaboration with The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack, featuring the voices of Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart
- Audio commentary from 2003 by Peter Bondanella, author of The Cinema of Federico Fellini
- Introduction from 2003 by filmmaker Martin Scorsese
- Giulietta Masina: The Power of a Smile, a documentary from 2004
- Federico Fellini’s Autobiography, a documentary originally broadcast on Italian television in 2000
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Christina Newland
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