L’AVVENTURA (Italy 1960) - (The Criterion Collection - #098) [DVD9 & DVD5]

A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of love.
Many films are called “classic,” but few qualify as turning points in the evolution of cinematic language, films that opened the way to a more mature art form. Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (The Adventure) is such a work. It divided film history into that which came before and that which was possible after its epochal appearance. It expanded our knowledge of what a film could be and do. It is more than a classic, it’s an historical milestone.

CAST & CREDITS:
Sandro: Gabriele Ferzetti
Claudia: Monica Vitti
Anna: Lea Massari
Giulia: Dominique Blanchar
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Producer: Amato Pennasilico
Screenplay: Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra
Cinematography: Aldo Scavarda
Production Design: Piero Poletto
Music: Giovanni Fusco
Editing: Eraldo Da Roma
Assistant director: Jack O'Connell

DVD:
DVD RELEASE: 2001
STUDIO: Criterion
SYSTEM: NTSC

EXTRACTION:
DISCS
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HARDWARE: Lite-On iHAS324
TYPE: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD & 1 Full Single-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: .ISO (Image) & INI (containing LayerBreak Info)
FILE SIZE: 11.44 GBs
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TYPE: Full Art Scan + Booklet
COVER FORMAT: PDF (FROM ORIGINAL 600DPI)
BOOKLET FORMAT: PDF (FROM ORIGINAL 300DPI)
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SCANS FILE SIZE: 12 MBs
TOTAL FILE SIZE: 11.56 GBs

SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
• Stunning new digital transfer with restored picture and sound, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
• Audio commentary by film historian Gene Youngblood
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
• Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials, a 58-minute documentary by Gianfranco Mingozzi
• Writings by Antonioni, read by Jack Nicholson—plus Nicholson’s personal recollections of the director
• Original theatrical trailer
• Restoration demonstration



INFO LINKS:
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The Criterion Collection Page
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