Nino Rota
1) The clowns
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's fascination with the circus and the surreal come to a head in one of his final masterpieces, The clowns. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a "docu-comedy", this film explores deeper human conditions that resonate through the various clowns who vary from a local sex-crazed hobo, a midget nun, to a mutilated...
2) Amarcord
Series
Criterion collection volume 4
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Italiano
Description
Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The family legacy is upended by Michael's business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael conspires to make inroads in the Las Vegas and Havana pleasure industries by any means necessary. As he realizes that even his allies are trying to kill him, the increasingly paranoid Michael also discovers that his ambition has crippled his marriage to Kay and turned his brother Fredo against him. Barely escaping a federal indictment, Michael...
4) Amarcord
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
Italiano
Description
Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of four poor Italian brothers and their mother who leave their country home and move to bustling Milan with hopes of improving their bitter fortune. The family is thrown into chaos when two of the brothers are torn apart by their love for the same woman and their struggles to succeed in a viciously competitive world.
Series
Criterion collection volume 189
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
Italiano
Description
Ivan Cavalli brings his new wife Wanda to Rome on the least romantic honeymoon in history--a rigid schedule of family meetings and an audience with the Pope. But Wanda, dreaming of the dashing hero of a photo-strip cartoon, drifts off in search of the White Sheik, thus setting off a slapstick comedy.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family which tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Language
English
Description
In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge's love affair with his daughter....
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999], c1967
Language
English
Description
Petruchio is a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona who journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After the honeymoon, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. In reality, Kate has found a more effective way to dominate her mate.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Part I: "The Godfather is a violent and chilling portrait of the Sicilian family's struggle to stay in power in a post-war America of corruption, deceit and betrayal."--Back of container.
Part II: "In what is undeniably one of the best sequels ever made, Francis Ford Coppola continues his epic Godfather trilogy with this saga of two generations of power withing the Corleone family."--Back of container.
Part III: "In the final installment of the...
13) The Godfather
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vito Corleone is the aging don of the Corleone Mafia Family. Michael, his youngest son, has returned from WWII in time to see the wedding of his sister Connie to Carlo Rizzi. All of Michael's family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to live a normal life. Drug dealer Virgil Sollozzo is looking for a family to offer him protection in exchange for a profit of the drug money. He approaches Don Corleone about it, but, he is morally against...