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ECLIPSE SERIES 14: ROSSELLINI'S HISTORY FILMS -- RENAISSANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT
complete 4-disc boxset
http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/582
http://www.amazon.com/Rossellinis-History-Films-Renaissance-Enlightenment/dp/B001ILTULA
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews43/rossellini_history_films_trilogy.htm
DVD Release Date: January 13, 2009
ABOUT THE BOXSET:
In the final phase of his career, Italian master Roberto Rossellini embarked on a dramatic, daunting project: a series of television films about knowledge and history, made in an effort to teach, where contemporary media were failing. Looking at the Western world's major figures and moments, yet focusing on the small details of daily life, Rossellini was determined not to recount history but to relive it, as it might have been, unadorned but full of the drama of the everyday. This selection of Rossellini's history films presents The Age of the Medici, Cartesius, and Blaise Pascal -- works that don't just enliven the past but illuminate the ideas that brought us to where we are today.
CONTENTS OF THE BOXSET:
3 feature films:
The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini, 1973, 255 min.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069684/
http://www.criterion.com/films/1025
Cartesius (Roberto Rossellini, 1974, 162 min.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161382/
http://www.criterion.com/films/1026
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, 1972, 129 min.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066839/
http://www.criterion.com/films/1027
Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 7.60 + 7.52 + 7.57 + 4.18 GB - Exact Untouched Copy
Time (total): 546 minutes
Type: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound (main features): French | Italian
Subtitles: optional English
DISC DETAILS
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DISC ONE AND TWO
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THE AGE OF THE MEDICI
http://www.criterion.com/films/1025
1973, 255 minutes
Roberto Rossellini's three-part The Age of the Medici is like a Renaissance painting come to life: a portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty. With a lovely score from composer Manuel de Sica (son of Vittorio), this grand yet intimate work is a storybook conjuring of a way of life and thought.
Color
1.33:1
Italian
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DISC THREE
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CARTESIUS
http://www.criterion.com/films/1026
1974, 164 minutes
Color
1.33:1
Italian
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DISC FOUR
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BLAISE PASCAL
http://www.criterion.com/films/1027
1972, 129 minutes
In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.
Color
1.33:1
Italian
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