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Italy 1987

 

Something of a late-career companion to 8½, Federico Fellini’s penultimate film is a similarly self-reflexive (and self-deprecating) journey through both the director’s dream life and his cinematic world—which are, here as always in Fellini’s work, inextricably entwined. In Rome to make a documentary about the great filmmaker, a Japanese camera crew follows Fellini on a tour through his longtime home studio of Cinecittà as the maestro’s memories and fantasies unfurl in a dizzying, dazzling, time-bending love letter to the art and spectacle of moviemaking. The film’s sprawling vision even makes room for an appearance by Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg who, in an unforgettable bit of movie magic, relive their iconic Trevi Fountain scene from La dolce vita, lent new poignancy by the tacit acknowledgement of time’s passing.

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Federico Fellini's "Intervista" (Interview) can be described as an impromptu fiction, a mock documentary or simply a divertissement. There are some who have suggested that it's just something Fellini turned out when he had nothing better to do, as if the cinema master had become a Sunday painter.

In whatever way you classify "Intervista," it is an enchanting work, a logical extension of all the films that have gone before it, and one of the unequivocal delights of the current season.

Excerpt from NYTimes located HERE

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Theatrical Release: May 18th, 1987 (Cannes Film Festival)

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Review: Criterion - Region 'A' - Blu-ray

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Presently only available in Criterion's Essential Fellini Blu-ray package with 14 films (15-Blu-rays)

  

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Distribution Criterion - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Runtime 1:47:42.038        
Video

1.37:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 48,684,065,470 bytes

Feature: 28,891,785,216 bytes

Video Bitrate: 31.79 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
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Audio

LPCM Audio Italian 1152 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles English, None
Features Release Information:
Studio: Criterion

 

1.37:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 48,684,065,470 bytes

Feature: 28,891,785,216 bytes

Video Bitrate: 31.79 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

Edition Details:

• Fellini's TV (35:15)
 • Fellini's Story Part 3 - A Walk Down Memory Lane (52:06)
 • Interview about Intervista (17:15)
 • Audio interview with Marcello Mastroianni (47:19)


 PLUS: Deluxe packaging, including two lavishly illustrated books with hundreds of pages of content: notes on the films by scholar David Forgacs, essays by filmmakers Michael Almereyda, Kogonada, and Carol Morley; film critics Bilge Ebiri and Stephanie Zacharek; and novelist Colm Tóibín, and dozens of images spotlighting Don Young’s renowned collection of Fellini memorabilia
Collector’s set designed by Raphael Geroni, with new illustrations by Abigail Giuseppe
 

Blu-ray Release Date: November 24th, 2020
Custom Blu-ray Case (see below)

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NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Criterion Blu-ray (November 2020): Criterion have transferred Federico Fellini's Intervista to Blu-ray as part of their 14 films (15-Blu-rays) package of Essential Fellini that includes Toby Dammit 1968, Variety Lights 1950, The White Sheik 1952, I vitelloni 1953, La strada 1954, Il bidone 1955, Nights of Cabiria 1957, La dolce vita 1960, 8½ 1963, Juliet of the Spirits 1965, Fellini Satyricon 1969, Roma 1972, Amarcord 1973, And the Ship Sails On 1983 and Intervista 1987. This is the 1st Blu-ray in the Essential Fellini package. The 1.37:1 image looks quite strong - bright colors, decent contrast and some depth.

"Restoration of Intervista (Federico Fellini, 1987) completed in 2019 by Istituto Luce - Cinecitta and Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale at the Istituto Luce - Cinecitt',1 laboratories from the original 35mm picture negative made available by Istituto Luce - Cinecitta, Rai Cinema, the heirs of Ibrahim Moussa and from a positive track printed from the optical soundtrack negative. Sound restoration supervision by Federico Savina."

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On their Blu-ray, Criterion use a linear PCM mono track (24-bit) in the original Italian language. I always thought there was an English language DUB version on Intervista, if so, it is not here. There are no effects but a pleasant score by Nicola Piovani (The Perfume of the Lady in Black, Night of the Shooting Stars, Footprints) - also used are Nino Rota's music from I Clowns, Il bidone, La dolce vita, Ginger E Fred etc.. Criterion offer optional English subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Criterion Blu-ray offers supplements on this disc. There is a 35-minute piece on Fellini's TV - a 4 episode series that ran in the 60's. It runs about 35-minutes. Fellini's Story Part 3 - A Walk Down Memory Lane runs 52-minutes, there is an interview with the director about Intervista running 17-minutes and a 48-minute audio interview with Marcello Mastroianni.

NOTE: The deluxe packaging, includes two lavishly illustrated books with hundreds of pages of content: notes on the films by scholar David Forgacs, essays by filmmakers Michael Almereyda, Kogonada, and Carol Morley; film critics Bilge Ebiri and Stephanie Zacharek; and novelist Colm Tóibín, and dozens of images spotlighting Don Young’s renowned collection of Fellini memorabilia collector’s set designed by Raphael Geroni, with new illustrations by Abigail Giuseppe.

Federico Fellini's Intervista is more of the director's nostalgia, philosophy of memory and film-within-a-film magic. Eventually, we realize that there is no difference between the genuine 'reality' and what is scripted or 'off the cuff' playful fun. This is highly interesting later-Fellini and has great supplements - part of Criterion's Essential Fellini Blu-ray package.... that we strongly recommend.

Gary Tooze

 

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