Release Date: Oct. 18, 2011
Price: Blu-ray $39.98
Studio: Raro Video
The first high-definition Blu-ray release in the U.S. from Italian DVD label Raro Video is a goodie: Federico Fellini’s1970 Italian TV movie The Clowns.
It’s the same film that marked the supplier’s DVD launch in the U.S. in February 2011, along with The Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection, a four-disc set featuring the Italian genre filmmaker.
Fellini’s The Clowns is a typically “Fellini-esque” documentary/memoir mash-up about the lives of circus clowns, with Fellini delighting in the role of ringmaster. The movie features a carnival-sounding score composed by Nino Rota and an appearance by Anita Ekberg (star of Fellini’s 1960 La Dolce Vita).
As with the DVD, the Blu-ray version of The Clowns includes an additional short film by Fellini, a video essay on the genesis of the film and a 40-page booklet with exclusive Fellini drawings.
Other DVD titles previously released by Raro that will presumably make the jump to Blu-ray include Antonioni’s The Vanquished, The Perfume of the Lady in Black, The Secret of Dorian Gray and Live Like a Cop Die Like a Man.
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