Criterion collection #672

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The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama. 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

Release date: Sep. 24, 2013

Set 1. After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee marries a simple Italian fisherman she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily. Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany

Originally produced as motion pictures in 1950-1954

Set 2. Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city's poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity

Set 1. Special features: Disc 1: New high-definition digital restoration of the English-language version; Introduction by director Roberto Rossellini; Rossellini under the volcano, a 1998 documentary that returns to Stromboli fifty years after the making of the film; Surprised by death, a new visual essay by film critic James Quandt on the historical and artistic themes of the triology. Disc 2: New 2K digital restoration of the Italian-language version, Stromboli terra di dio; New interview with film critic Adriano Aprá; Rossellini through his own eyes, a 1992 documentary on the director's approach to cinema, featuring archival interviews with Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman; New English subtitle translation

Set. 3 Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Robert Rossellini's Journey to Italy charges the declining marriage of a couple from England on a trip in the countryside near Naples. More than just the anatomy of a relationship, Rossellini's masterpiece is a heartrending work of emotion and spirituality

Set. 3 Special features: New 4K digital restoration; Introduction by director Roberto Rossellini; Audio commentary by film scholar Laura Mulvey. New interview with film critic Adriano Aprà, Martin Scorsese; Short film featureing footage of the Rossellinis during the production of Journey to Italy

Set 1. Screenplay: Sergio Amidei, G.P. Callegari, Art Cohn, Renzo Cesana; cinematography: Otello Martelli; editing: Lolanda Benvenuti; music: Renzo Rossellini

Set 2. Cinematography, Aldo Tonti ; music Renzo Rossellini ; editor, Iolanda Benvenuti

Set. 1 Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponza

Sets. 2 & 3. Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders

Rating: Not rated

DVD, full screen (1.37:1) presentation

English or Italian dialogue; English subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

Set 1.

disc 1.

Stromboli (English-language version)

(106 min.) --

disc 2.

Stromboli terra di dio (Italian-language version)

(100 min.). --

Set 2.

disc 1

Europe '51 (English language version

(109 min.)

disc 2.

Europe '51 (Italian language version)

118 min.) -- Set 3.

Journey to Italy

(85 min.)