City of Women (1980)
La città delle donne
Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy • 2h 20m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers, Jole Silvani, Donatella Damiani, Ettore Manni, Fiammetta Baralla, Hélène Calzarelli, Catherine Carrel, Marcella Di Falco, Silvana Fusacchia, Gabriella Giorgelli, Dominique Labourier, Stéphanie Loïk, Sylvie Matton, Maïté Nahyr, Sibilla Sedat, Alessandra Panelli, Loredana Solfizi, Rosaria Tafuri, Carla Terlizzi, Katren Gebelein, Nadia Vasil, Fiorella Molinari, Sylvie Wacrenier, Jill Lucas, Vivian Lucas, Rose Alba, Johanna Battista, Anna Bonaiuto, Penny Brown, Maria Pia Cafiero, Isabelle Canto da Maya, Omero Capanna, Lucia Cassini, Fernando Cerulli, Annamaria Chio, Marina Confalone, Milly Corinaldi, Mirella D'Angelo, Valeria D'Obici, Catharina Dahlin, Germana Di Giannicola, Gabriella Di Luzio, Gianni Di Segni, Franco Diogene, Susanna Forgione, Marina Hedman, Stefan Liberski, Malisa Longo, Alba Maiolini, Roberta Manfredi, Cesare Martignoni, Ettore Martini, Nello Palladino, Nello Pazzafini, Brigitte Petronio, Mimmo Poli, Ilza Prestinari, Carmen Russo, Maria Grazia Smaldone, Domenico Surace, Josiane Tanzilli, Mara Tchoukleva, Tonino Tommasi, Stavros Tornes, Luciana Turina, Karine Verlier, Umberto Zuanelli, Ghirardo Leoni
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Overview
The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.
Director: Federico Fellini
Director: Federico Fellini
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
2014 Criterion Blu-ray is from the same master and has only slightly worse compression. JP/DE/FR releases all have incorrect levels. Caps
All Blu-ray releases are from the same mastering, superior to the one on older DVD releases which is sourced from a higher generation source. They all sound about the same, with the exception of Criterion, which sounds worse due to extraneous filtering.
Paramount's disc also includes a contemporary English dub, previously unreleased on home video.
Director: Federico Fellini
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2017 StudioCanal Blu-ray
Director: Federico Fellini
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
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.
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Federico Fellini
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: James Ivory
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Cohen 4K Blu-ray caps. Same 4K master that Cohen released on BD but grain resolves much better and the gamma levels are now correctly set.
Directors: Charles Reisner & Buster Keaton
Director: Jacques Rivette
Director: Dudley Murphy
Sources: loc.gov (opens in a new tab)
Also available in HD Streaming by Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/item/2023602002/
Director: Dudley Murphy
Director: Albert Parker
Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Cohen Douglas Fairbanks Double Feature Blu-ray is slightly better than 2010 Kino Lorber Blu-ray and potentially a different transfer, see comparison caps
Director: Joan Micklin Silver
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Bruce Robinson
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has stronger encode than Criterion
Director: Olivier Assayas
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
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