La Dolce Vita (1960)
La dolce vita
Comedy, Drama • 2h 56m
Overview
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noël, Alain Cuny, Annibale Ninchi, Walter Santesso, Valeria Ciangottini, Riccardo Garrone, Ida Galli, Audrey McDonald, Polidor, Alain Dijon, Mino Doro, Giulio Girola, Laura Betti, Nico, Domino, Carlo Musto, Enzo Cerusico, Giulio Paradisi, Enzo Doria, Enrico Glori, Adriana Moneta, Massimo Busetti, Lex Barker, Jacques Sernas, Nadia Gray, Giuseppe Addobbati, Conte Brunoro Serego Aligheri, Gabriella Andreini, Federika André, Armando Annuale, Joan Antequera, Juan Antequero, Gianni Baghino, Nadia Balabine, Ignazio Balsamo, Remo Benedetti, Andrea Bianchi, Lars Bloch, Leonardo Botta, Ida Bracci Dorati, Ferdinando Brofferio, Giovanna Busetti, Tito Buzzo, Daniela Calvino, Tony Campanino, Fabrizio Capucci, Donato Castellaneta, Adriano Celentano, Elisabetta Cini, Giulio Citti, Leo Coleman, Nani Colombo, Mario Conocchia, Francesco Consalvo, Tiziano Cortini, Decimo Cristiani, Mario De Grenet, Andrea De Pino, Adele De Rossi, Donatella Della Nora, Christine Denise, Katherine Denise, Carlo Di Maggio, François Dieudonné, Venceslao Dobrzensky, Donatella Esparmer, Paolo Fadda, Umberto Felici, Oretta Fiume, Rina Franchetti, Giacomo Gabrielli, Franco Giacobini, Angela Giavalisco, Romolo Giordani, Christine Graefeck, Lily Granado, Libero Grandi, Maurizio Guelfi, Gloria Hendy, April Hennessy, Nina Hohenlohe, Antonio Jacono, Gloria Jones, Carlo Kechler, Else Knorr, Paolo Labia, John Francis Lane, Sondra Lee, Marianne Leibl, Guglielmo Leoncini, Giuliana Lojodice, Renée Longarini, Francisco Lori, Francesco Luzi, Mario Mallarno, Renato Mambor, Vittorio Manfrino, Maria Marigliano, Carlo Mariotti, Gino Marturano, Maria Mazzanti, Harriet Medin, Marta Melocco, Nello Meniconi, Alex Messoyedoff, Gianfranco Mingozzi, Lucia Modigliani, Maite Morand, Aurelio Nardi, Desmond O'Grady, Liana Orfei, Umberto Orsini, Contessa Cristina Paolozzi, Ada Passeri, Franca Pasut, Loretta Pepi, Paola Petrini, Cesarino Miceli Picardi, Princess Doris Pignatelli, Alberto Plebani, Oliviero Prunas, Giovanni Querrel, Giulio Questi, Concetta Ragusa, Loretta Ramaciotti, Leonida Repaci, Alfredo Rizzo, Rosemary Rennel Rodd, Giancarlo Romani, Franco Rossellini, Prince Eugenio Ruspoli di Poggio Suasa, Margherita Russo, Anna Maria Salerno, Anna Salvatore, Archie Savage, Lisa Schneider, Maria Pia Serafini, Noel Sheldon, Isabella Soldani, Letizia Spadini, Giò Stajano, Gino Talamo, Sandra Tesi, Henry Thody, Tomás Torres, Iris Tree, Vando Tress, Gondrano Trucchi, Teresa Tsao, Winie Vagliani, Leontine Van Strein, Aldo Vasco, Lucia Vasilicò, Maria Teresa Vianello, Sandy von Normand, Antoinette Weynen, Angela Wilson, Vadim Wolkonsky, Maria Teresa Wolodimeroff, Gianni Zamputo, Italo Zingarelli, Iolanda Fortini, Marta Timar, Bruna Cealti, Nancy Lecchini, Giulio Tomei, Lucia Cavalieri, Edward Febo Kelleng, Rio Nobile, Romalı Perihan
Director: Billy Wilder
Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Capelight/Kino Lorber which has heavy noise reduction and opening snare hit is missing, Capelight is slightly better encoded than Kino Lorber
Director: Billy Wilder
Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Capelight/Kino Lorber which has heavy noise reduction and opening snare hit is missing, Capelight is slightly better encoded than Kino Lorber
Directors: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
Directors: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
Director: Stanley Kubrick
US Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: Old 2007 Europe Blu-ray
Criterion Box Set
US Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: Old 2007 Europe Blu-ray
No Blu-ray or DVD release has presented the movie in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 for the US cut or 1.66:1 for the International cut.
The packaging on the back of the 4K Blu-ray incorrectly states it as 1.85:1 when the movie is actually 1.78:1 as is the original Blu-ray.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
US Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: Old 2007 Europe Blu-ray
Criterion Box Set
US Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: Old 2007 Europe Blu-ray
No Blu-ray or DVD release has presented the movie in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 for the US cut or 1.66:1 for the International cut.
The packaging on the back of the 4K Blu-ray incorrectly states it as 1.85:1 when the movie is actually 1.78:1 as is the original Blu-ray.
Director: Ridley Scott
Final Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray (Caveat: No Dolby Vision from Streaming)
Workprint: WB 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Set for a better AVC encode
Final Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray (Caveat: No Dolby Vision from Streaming)
Workprint: WB 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Set for a better AVC encode
1982 Theatrical Mix: Embassy Video releases, HD-DVD for the 70mm 6-track mix
International Cut Dolby Stereo: Criterion Collection LaserDisc, HD-DVD for the 70mm 6-track mix
1992 Director's Cut Dolby Stereo: WB CAV LaserDisc 2.0 PCM-best fidelity of any mix, HD-DVD for the 70mm 6-track mix
Workprint: WB 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Set DTS-HD MA 5.1
2007 Final Cut remix: Blu-ray Dolby TrueHD 5.1
WB 4K Blu-ray only has Final Cut and contains a bad Atmos remix with new sound effects. Original Final Cut mix was removed.
Director: Ridley Scott
Final Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray (Caveat: No Dolby Vision from Streaming)
Workprint: WB 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Set for a better AVC encode
Final Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray (Caveat: No Dolby Vision from Streaming)
Workprint: WB 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Set for a better AVC encode
1982 Theatrical Mix: Embassy Video releases, HD-DVD for the 70mm 6-track mix
International Cut Dolby Stereo: Criterion Collection LaserDisc, HD-DVD for the 70mm 6-track mix
1992 Director's Cut Dolby Stereo: WB CAV LaserDisc 2.0 PCM-best fidelity of any mix, HD-DVD for the 70mm 6-track mix
Workprint: WB 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Set DTS-HD MA 5.1
2007 Final Cut remix: Blu-ray Dolby TrueHD 5.1
WB 4K Blu-ray only has Final Cut and contains a bad Atmos remix with new sound effects. Original Final Cut mix was removed.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: John Ford
1988/1990 WB Hi-Fi VHS, crystal clear, albeit with some distortion in louder areas
The 4K Blu-ray reuses the same poor mastering used on the 2006 WB Blu-ray, only with a completely unnecessary bass cut and extra noise reduction.
Even putting resolution aside, the Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray has the best video. The old Blu-ray master and earlier DVD both had massive issues with colour.
That said, picture on the 4K Blu-ray isn't perfect, with strange posterized magenta glints and some instances of DNR: https://bsky.app/profile/dagscott.bsky.social/post/3leahavqi7k2l
Director: John Ford
1988/1990 WB Hi-Fi VHS, crystal clear, albeit with some distortion in louder areas
The 4K Blu-ray reuses the same poor mastering used on the 2006 WB Blu-ray, only with a completely unnecessary bass cut and extra noise reduction.
Even putting resolution aside, the Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray has the best video. The old Blu-ray master and earlier DVD both had massive issues with colour.
That said, picture on the 4K Blu-ray isn't perfect, with strange posterized magenta glints and some instances of DNR: https://bsky.app/profile/dagscott.bsky.social/post/3leahavqi7k2l
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Director: Béla Tarr
Curzon 4K Blu-ray see caps
Director: Béla Tarr
Curzon 4K Blu-ray see caps
Director: Federico Fellini
Director: Federico Fellini
Director: Federico Fellini
Image Entertainment DVD is slightly better than Criterion 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray/DVD (all basically the same)
Other Blu-ray releases are all much worse.
Director: Federico Fellini
Image Entertainment DVD is slightly better than Criterion 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray/DVD (all basically the same)
Other Blu-ray releases are all much worse.
Director: Federico Fellini
Director: Federico Fellini
Director: Federico Fellini
Director: Federico Fellini
Director: Federico Fellini
Director: Federico Fellini
Kino Lorber 2020 Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 2020 Blu-ray is a newer restoration, but the color grading is very different and seems too bright. Grading aside, the encoding is subpar, hence Carlotta is superior. See DVDBeaver caps
Kino Lorber 2020 Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 2020 Blu-ray is a newer restoration, but the color grading is very different and seems too bright. Grading aside, the encoding is subpar, hence Carlotta is superior. See DVDBeaver caps
Director: Noah Baumbach
Director: Noah Baumbach
Director: Leo McCarey
Director: Leo McCarey
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Mosfilm official 4K Youtube Streaming
See comparison vs German Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray which is a 2K upscale of the previous restoration
Criterion/Artificial Eye Blu-ray are even older restoration than the Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray
Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray has incorrect pitch on the Russian audio see thread
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Mosfilm official 4K Youtube Streaming
See comparison vs German Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray which is a 2K upscale of the previous restoration
Criterion/Artificial Eye Blu-ray are even older restoration than the Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray
Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray has incorrect pitch on the Russian audio see thread
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
Director: Dušan Makavejev
Transgressive Visions German 4K Blu-ray
Director: Dušan Makavejev
Transgressive Visions German 4K Blu-ray
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