Italian film -LE STREGHE/WITCHES – out on Dvd and Blu Ray

LE STREGHE/WITCHES (12) 1967ITALY DVD £15.99 BLU RAY £19.99
Anthology featuring five short stories – La Strega Bruciata Viva/witch Burned Alive (Luchino Visconti), Senso Civico/Civic Sense (Mauro Bolognini), La Terra Vista Dalla Luna/the Earth As Seen from the Moon (Pier Paolo Pasolini), La Siciliana/The Sicilian Belle (Franco Rossi) and Una Serata Come Le Altre/an Evening Like the Others (Vittorio De Sica).

The following short films are featured –

 

LA STREGA BRUCIATA VIVA/WITCH BURNED ALIVE (LUCHINO VISCONTI)
A famous actress as she spends an evening with friends at a chalet in the Alps.
When she falls into a drunken sleep her friends remove her makeup to look at the imperfections of her face.

SENSO CIVICO/CIVIC SENSE (MAURO BOLOGNINI)
A man is injured in a road accident and a woman stops her car to take him to hospital. However he motive is not humanitarian but as a way of bypassing the traffic.

LA TERRA VISTA DALLA LUNA/THE EARTH AS SEEN FROM THE MOON (PIER PAOLO PASOLINI)
Comic episode follwing a widowed man as he searches for a new wife.

LA SICILIANA/THE SICILIAN BELLE (FRANCO ROSSI)
Sicilian woman tells her father that a man has made a pass at her and the father sets out to confronts those who wronged his daughter.

UNA SERATA COME LE ALTRE/AN EVENING LIKE THE OTHERS (VITTORIO DE SICA)
Clint Eastwood is a western movie lover, who tries to rekindle his relationship by dressing as a cowboy, however this act finally convinces his wife that their relationship is over.

In Italian with English subtitles

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Oscar nomination comedy – MATRIMONIO ALL’ITALIANA/MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE – issued on dvd and Blu Ray

MATRIMONIO ALL’ITALIANA/MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE (15) 1964 ITALY DE SICA, VITTORIO DVD – £13.99 BLU RAY £17.99
Oscar nomination comedy in which rich married Domenico promises his dying mistress, Filumena (played by Sophia Loren), that he will marry her if she survives. She survives and holds him to his promise. Once married Filumena moves her three grown sons into their marital home. Finally she has become master of the house.

In Italian with English subtitles.

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IERI OGGI DOMANI/YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW – re-issued on dvd and Blu Ray

IERI OGGI DOMANI/YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW (15) 1967 ITALY DE SICA, VITTORIO DVD – £13.99 BLU RAY £17.99
Portmanteau comedy which features the most popular male and female leads of the Italian 20th century cinema, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.

Oscar winning film staring Sophia Loren, who plays three different women in this trilogy of stories, set in Naples, Milan and Rome.

In Naples Lorens plays Adelina who sells black-market cigarettes, who is constantly pregnant as the authorities are reluctant to arrest a pregnant woman.

In Milan, she is wealthy Anna having an affair with poor Renzo, whose infatuation is tested.
In Rome, prostitute Mara seeks the help of her client Augusto to spurn the advances of her neighbor’s infatuated grandson.

In Italian with English subtitles

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Max Ophuls’ film – MADAME DE .. – issued on Dual Format editon

MADAME DE .. (U) 1953 FRANCE OPHULS, MAX DUAL FORMAT EDITION £19.99
Based on the novel by Louise de Vilmorin about a doomed, obsessive romance set in 18th century France

Countess Louise who sells off the earrings to clear debts. Thus setting into motion events that jeopardise her social position and threaten to destroy her marriage as the earrings change hands.

In French with English subtitles

DVD available to buy at

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BOCCACCIO – issued on DVD and Blu Ray

BOCCACCIO ’70 (12) 1962 ITALY DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
Collection of four short stories, each directed by one of Italy’s most famous directors, focusing on women taking back control of their lives.

Mario Monicelli’s ‘Renzo and Luciana’ concerns two lovers who must keep their wedding secret from their employers to avoid the sack.

Anita Ekberg stars in Federico Fellini’s story ‘The Temptation of Dr. Antonio’, about a prudish censor who tries to ban a huge billboard of the star, only to be haunted by its alluring gaze.

Luchino Visconti’s ‘The Job’, a countess decides to get a job after the scandalous exposure of her husband’s infidelities.

‘The Raffle’, Vittorio De Sica tells the story of Zoe (Sophia Loren), who offers herself in a lottery to help pay her pregnant sister’s taxes, but who decides to call off the deal when she falls for a local stable boy.

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Vittorio De Sica Neo-Realist film -UMBERTO D – released on dvd

UMBERTO D. (U) 1953 ITALY SICA, VITTORIO DE £19.99
Umberto, a lonely retired civil servant, manages to survive on his inadequate pension but is driven to the brink of suicide, only to realise that their would be no one to look after his dog if he took his life.

This Neo-Realist film was for years banned in Italy as it was seen as subversive and painted a negative picture of the country.

In Italian with English subtitles.

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Some other De Sica films on dvd

LADRI DI BICICLETTE/BICYCLE THIEVES (U) 1948 ITALY SICA, VITTORIO DE £15.99
Oscar winning story of a poor man whose bicycle is stolen and he and his son search Rome for it.

In Italian with English subtitles.

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LA CIOCIARA /TWO WOMEN (15) 1960 ITALY DE SICA, VITTORIO DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
1943 a woman and her teenage daughter travel form war torn Rome to her native village of Ciociaria. When the allies arrive they travel back to Rome and experience the horrors of war that they had hoped to escape.

In Italian with English subtitles.

IL MIO VIAGGIO IN ITALIA/MY VOYAGE TO ITALY (12) 1999 £12.99
Martin Scorsese presents this documentary in which he discusses Italian films that have had an impact on him. The programme takes a look at films by Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti, Fellini and Antonioni in the context of emotion, style, staging, technique, politics and cinematic influence.

In Italian with English subtitles.

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Vittorio de Sica’s – LADRI DI BICICLETTE/BICYCLE THIEVES – issued on dvd

LADRI DI BICICLETTE/BICYCLE THIEVES (U) 1948 ITALY SICA, VITTORIO DE £15.99
Oscar winning story of a poor man whose bicycle is stolen and he and his son search Rome for it.

Part of neorealist cinema movement that  shows the urban poverty in post-war Italy.

Antonio and his family are living on the breadline until Antonio lands a job as a bill-sticker.

However as a bicycle is need to carry out his new job  he is devastated when it is stolen.

Antonio sets out with his son Bruno across the city of Rome to look for it.

In Italian with English subtitles

DVD available to buy at –

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Vittorio de Sica’s film – LA CIOCIARA /TWO WOMEN – out on dvd and blu ray

LA CIOCIARA /TWO WOMEN (15) 1960 ITALY DE SICA, VITTORIO DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
1943 a woman and her teenage daughter travel form war torn Rome to her native village of Ciociaria. When the allies arrive they travel back to Rome and experience the horrors of war that they had hoped to escape.

Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film while Sophia Loren won a BAFTA and an Academy Award for her performance.

In Italian with English subtitles

Other films by Vittorio de Sica on dvd

CACCIA ALLA VOLPE/AFTER THE FOX (U) ITALY 1966 DE SICA, VITTORIO IN ENGLISH £15.99
Sica directs Peter Sellers in this comedy penned by Neil Simon.
IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI CONTINI/GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINI (12) 1970 ITALY SICA, VITTORIO DE DVD – £15.99 BLU RAY – £19.99
Drama set in the Italian city of Ferrara in the late 1930s, adapted from the novel by Giorgio Bassani. In the estate grounds of wealthy Jewish family, the Finzi-Continis, brother and sister Alberto (Helmut Berger) and Micol (Dominique Sanda) and their friends, Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) and Bruno (Fabio Testi), play tennis and enjoy relaxing afternoons. Away from the seclusion and safety of the estate, however, fascism is on the rise.
LADRI DI BICICLETTE/BICYCLE THIEVES (U) 1948 ITALY SICA, VITTORIO DE £17.99
Oscar winning story of a poor man whose bicycle is stolen and he and his son search Rome for it.
IL MIO VIAGGIO IN ITALIA/MY VOYAGE TO ITALY (12) 1999 £12.99
Martin Scorsese presents this documentary in which he discusses Italian films that have had an impact on him. The programme takes a look at films by Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti, Fellini and Antonioni in the context of emotion, style, staging, technique, politics and cinematic influence.
MIRACOLO A MILANO/MIRACLE IN MILAN (U) 1950 ITALY SICA, VITTORIO DE THREE DISC SET £24.99
Captivating fable about an orphan who helps the homeless of post war Milan to regain their self-respect.
SCIUSCIÀ’ (RAGAZZI)/SHOESHINE (12) ITALY 1946 SICA, DE, VITTORIO £19.99
Filmed in postwar Rome and inspired by the real stories of those struggling to overcome the oppressive forces of a corrupt
and ineffective political system.
UMBERTO D (U) 1953 ITALY SICA, VITTORIO DE £19.99
Film about a retired civil servant and how he manages to survive on his inadequate pension.

 

DVD available to buy at –

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