The Clowns (1970)
I Clowns
TV Movie, Comedy • 1h 33m
Overview
Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Riccardo Billi, Gigi Reder, Tino Scotti, Valentini, Fanfulla, Merli, Carlo Rizzo, Alberto Colombaioni, Pistoni, Martana, Giacomo Furia, Dante Maggio, Galliano Sbarra, Peppino Janigro, Carini, Maunsell, Nino Terzo, Osiride Pevarello, Nino Vingelli, Alberto Sorrentino, Fumagalli, Valdemaro, Luigi Zerbinati, Ettore Bevilacqua, Maya Morin, Alvaro Vitali, Anna Lina Alberti, Gasparino, Alex, Georges Loriot, Louis Maïss, Bario, Ludo, Nino, Charlie Rivel, Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Victor Fratellini, Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée, Tristan Remy, Liana Orfei, Rinaldo Orfei, Nando Orfei, Franco Migliorini, Anita Ekberg, Federico Fellini, Paolo Baroni, Maria Grazia Buccella, Aristide Caporale, Victoria Chaplin, Liliana Chiari, Dante Cleri, Shirley Corrigan, Pasquale Fasciano, Feverello, Gustavo Fratellini, Adelina Poerio, Marie Párová, Richard Simmons, Tonino Tommasi
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
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Director: Haskell Wexler
Criterion Blu-ray is slightly better than MoC Blu-ray: while both are from a 4K restoration approved by director, MoC is more sharpened but gamma is flatter see caps
Paramount DVD and potentially Paramount LaserDisc see blah-ray
Criterion and MoC Blu-ray has the same audio, and additional (destructive) hiss reduction was applied, and one segment was made significantly louder.
Also, every home video release except the 1982 Paramount VHS cassette replaces Wild Man Fischer's 'Merry-Go-Round' in the roller derby scene with a version of 'Sweet Georgia Brown' by Brother Bones. Two very different songs, and one must assume that the tone of the scene has changed considerably
Director: Haskell Wexler
Criterion Blu-ray is slightly better than MoC Blu-ray: while both are from a 4K restoration approved by director, MoC is more sharpened but gamma is flatter see caps
Paramount DVD and potentially Paramount LaserDisc see blah-ray
Criterion and MoC Blu-ray has the same audio, and additional (destructive) hiss reduction was applied, and one segment was made significantly louder.
Also, every home video release except the 1982 Paramount VHS cassette replaces Wild Man Fischer's 'Merry-Go-Round' in the roller derby scene with a version of 'Sweet Georgia Brown' by Brother Bones. Two very different songs, and one must assume that the tone of the scene has changed considerably
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
MoC OOP Blu-ray is likely to have better encoding than Kino Lorber Blu-ray judging from other movies in the boxset
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
MoC OOP Blu-ray is likely to have better encoding than Kino Lorber Blu-ray judging from other movies in the boxset
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
MoC OOP Blu-ray is likely to have better encoding than Kino Lorber Blu-ray judging from other movies in the boxset
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
MoC OOP Blu-ray is likely to have better encoding than Kino Lorber Blu-ray judging from other movies in the boxset
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
MoC OOP Blu-ray is likely to have better encoding than Kino Lorber Blu-ray judging from other movies in the boxset
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
MoC OOP Blu-ray is likely to have better encoding than Kino Lorber Blu-ray judging from other movies in the boxset
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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Directors: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Directors: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Director: Erik Nelson
Director: Erik Nelson
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Director: Steven Spielberg
"Director's Cut" (Theatrical cut with minor changes): Universal 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: VHS
TV Cut: Fan restoration
"Director's Cut" (Theatrical cut with minor changes): Universal 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: VHS TV Cut: Fan restoration
1993 MCA LaserDisc (with EQ adjusted)
Director: Steven Spielberg
"Director's Cut" (Theatrical cut with minor changes): Universal 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: VHS
TV Cut: Fan restoration
"Director's Cut" (Theatrical cut with minor changes): Universal 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: VHS TV Cut: Fan restoration
1993 MCA LaserDisc (with EQ adjusted)
Directors: George Harrison & Ringo Starr & Bernard Knowles & John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Director: Errol Morris
Director: Errol Morris
Director: Michael Mann
OOP KL Blu-ray
Director: Michael Mann
OOP KL Blu-ray
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US RaroVideo BD or UK MoC BD has no discernible difference even though MoC has more bitrate, see caps Both OOP
IT Eagle Pictures BD is also OOP, not English-friendly and has no caps for comparison.
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US RaroVideo BD or UK MoC BD has no discernible difference even though MoC has more bitrate, see caps Both OOP
IT Eagle Pictures BD is also OOP, not English-friendly and has no caps for comparison.
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