3 Films By Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman (Criterion Collection) On Blu-Ray

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Actor: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Alexander Knox, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Genre: Foreign Video - Italian
Year: N/A
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length : 305
Released: September 24, 2013
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-Ray
Misc: Black & White
Language: English, Italian
Subtitles: English

DESCRIPTION:

In the late 1940s, the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca) found herself so moved by the revolutionary neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini (Rome Open City) that she sent the director a letter, introducing herself and offering her talents. The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama, each starring Bergman as a woman experiencing physical dislocation and psychic torment in postwar Italy. It also famously led to a scandalous affair and eventual marriage between filmmaker and star, and the focus on their personal lives in the press unfortunately overshadowed the extraordinary films they made together. Stromboli, Europe ’51, and Journey to Italy are intensely personal portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the glamorous actor at her most anguished, and that capture them and the world around them in transition.

Special Features

New digital film restorations of the English- and Italian-language versions of Stromboli and Europe ’51 and the English-language version of Journey to Italy, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray editions

Archival television introductions by director Roberto Rossellini to all three films

Audio commentary for Journey to Italy featuring scholar Laura Mulvey

Rossellini Through His Own Eyes, a 1992 documentary on the filmmaker’s approach to cinema, featuring archival interviews with Rossellini and actor Ingrid Bergman

New visual essays about Rossellini by scholars Tag Gallagher and James Quandt

Rossellini Under the Volcano, a 1998 documentary that returns to the island of Stromboli fifty years after the making of Stromboli

New interview with critic Adriano Aprà about each of the films

New interview with Fiorella Mariani, Rossellini’s niece, featuring home movies shot by Bergman

New interview with film historian Elena Degrada about the different versions of Europe ’51

New interviews with Isabella Rossellini and Ingrid Rossellini, daughters of Roberto Rossellini and Bergman

Ingrid Bergman Remembered, a 1996 documentary on the actor’s life, narrated by her daughter Pia Lindstrom

My Dad Is 100 Years Old, a 2005 short film, directed by Guy Maddin and starring Isabella Rossellini

The Chicken, a 1952 short film by Roberto Rossellini, starring Bergman

A Short Visit with the Rossellini Family, a six-minute film shot on Capri while the family was there during the production of Journey to Italy

New English subtitle translation for Stromboli and Europe '51

PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Richard Brody, Fred Camper, Dina Iordanova, and Paul Thomas; letters exchanged by Rossellini and Bergman; “Why I Directed Stromboli,” a 1950 article by Rossellini; a 1954 interview with Rossellini conducted by Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut for Cahiers du cinéma; and excerpts from a 1965 interview with Rossellini conducted by Aprà and Maurizio Ponzi for Filmcritica

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