Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember / Marcello Mastroianni: mi ricordo, sì, io mi ricordo (1997) [Criterion Collection]

Directors: Anna Maria Tatò
Writers: Anna Maria Tatò
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Berta, Manoel de Oliveira

In this documentary, Italian icon Marcello Mastroianni reflects on his life and work, his intimate conversation with the camera occasionally intercut with scenes from his best-known films, including "Divorce, Italian Style," "La Dolce Vita" and "8 1/2." As his 72nd birthday approaches, he discusses his particular approach to acting, reveals details about his family, shares stories about working with such luminaries as Federico Fellini and once again effortlessly commands the screen.



Essential Fellini: One hundred years after his birth, Federico Fellini still stands apart as a giant of the cinema. The Italian maestro is defined by his dualities: the sacred and the profane, the masculine and the feminine, the provincial and the urbane. 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 in increasingly grand productions teeming with carnivalesque imagery and flights of phantasmagoric surrealism while maintaining an earthy, embodied connection to humanity. 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.


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