Roma (1972)
Comedy, Drama • 2h 8m
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence, Pia De Doses, Marne Maitland, Renato Giovannoli, Elisa Mainardi, Norma Giacchero, Stefano Mayore, Galliano Sbarra, Anna Magnani, Ginette Marcelle Bron, Gore Vidal, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Dennis Christopher, Franco Citti, Federico Fellini, Eleonora Giorgi, Alberto Sordi, Alvaro Vitali, Cassandra Peterson, Britta Barnes, Raout Paule, Paola Natale, Mario Del Vago, Alfredo Adami, Alessandro Quasimodo, Luca Prodan, Marcello Mastroianni, Catharina Dahlin, Orlando Pallamari, Mara Carisi, Lidia Zanussi, Osvaldo Peccioli, Francesco Di Giacomo, Domenico Demitri, René Fiorentini, Maria De Sisti
About the film
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
- TSPDT
- 2026: #6092025: #6132024: #6002023: #5842022: #584
- Alternative Titles
- Fellini's Roma
Director: Federico Fellini
Director: Federico Fellini
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
2017 StudioCanal Blu-ray
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
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Federico Fellini
Director: Hal Ashby
See caps https://slow.pics/c/lVdZaG0W
Director: Anthony Mann
The film only exists in MGM letterbox masters and the HD version upgrades the DVD presentation. Sadly the film still needs a modern restoration and a better audio source. The master holds up very well today regardless and has a very natural appearance. The Eureka BD is far superior to the Kino Lorber in encode and extras making it easily the only version to consider.
Director: Elaine May
Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray > MoC > Olive Films. From nicolas:
The master is good but it’s not that big an upgrade from the Olive Films disc and Vinegar Syndrome’ encode has some blocky highlights. A shame that they didn’t hire David Mackenzie here.
Cinématographe has unnecessary noise gating not present on the previous releases.
Flicker Alley 4K confirmed for 2027 https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24404584&postcount=1
MoC audio is better https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=225532&page=3
Director: Buster Keaton
Kino Lorber new Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. Blu-ray?
MoC 4K Blu-ray late 2027
Lobster Films (Kino Lorber?) > Cohen/Eureka https://slow.pics/c/3KWXoMyR The new Kino Lorber's Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. might be using the same restoration as Lobster Films
UK MoC Blu-ray > Germany Wicked Vision Blu-ray > US Flicker Alley Blu-ray see DVDBeaver caps
Director: Paul Leni
Theatrical/Original A negative: MoC Blu-ray
European C/D negative but better picture quality: Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
From DVDBeaver: The MoC Blu-ray is scanned from the American A negative, as opposed to the European C or D negatives used by Photoplay and others (Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray), so it is identical with the film US audiences saw in 1927
See caps for comparison
In addition, the Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has sepia tinting throughout while the MoC Blu-ray has yellow for normal scenes, blue for night scenes, and some even green tintings.
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Roman Polanski
Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray coming November 27
Director: Todd Solondz
1999 R1 Trimark DVD
The Criterion 4K Blu-ray has audio that, despite being in a lossless codec, is extremely lossily compressed akin to an MP3.
Director: Mike Nichols
StudioCanal 4K caps.Criterion Blu-ray better encode than StudioCanal Blu-ray.
Director: Mike Cheslik
Director: Tom Holland
sounds better than the Sony 4K Blu-ray , https://slow.pics/c/pJfES0fl
Twilight Time has an isolated score
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