Listed for $249.95, the set will come in deluxe packaging that includes two lavishly illustrated books with hundreds of pages of content: notes on the films by scholar David Forgacs essays by filmmakers Michael Almereyda, Kogonada, and Carol Morley, film critics Bilge Ebiri and Stephanie Zacharek, and novelist Colm Tóibín and dozens of images spotlighting Don Young’s renowned collection of Fellini memorabilia.“The most miserable life is better, believe me, than an existence protected by a society where everything’s organized and planned for and perfect,” says Steiner (Alain Cuny), Marcello’s ( Marcello Mastroianni) only friend with seemingly any moral fiber or family values in the Rome of upper-class debauchery in which they surf throughout Federico Fellini’s groundbreaking critical masterpiece on the vacuous Roman high-life of the late 50s, La Dolce Vita. Archival audio interviews by film critic Gideon Bachmann with Fellini, Mastroianni, and Fellini’s friends and family.
Archival interviews with Fellini stars and collaborators, including Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Anouk Aimée, and Magali Noël. A program from 2003 on Fellini’s 1980s television advertising work. Audio commentaries on six of the films. “Once Upon a Time: La dolce vita,” a French television documentary about the film. Giulietta Masina: The Power of a Smile, a 2004 documentary about Fellini’s wife and frequent collaborator. Fellini racconta: Passegiatte nella memoria, a 2000 documentary featuring interviews with a late-in-life Fellini. Four behind-the-scenes documentaries: “Reporter’s Diary: Zoom on Fellini” (1965), “Ciao, Federico!” (1969), “The Secret Diary of Amarcord” (1974), and “Fellini racconta: On the Set of And the Ship Sails On” (1983). 
A two-hour, four-part 1960 interview with Fellini by filmmaker André Delvaux for Belgian television. The newly restored television film Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969), and the feature documentaries Fellini: I’m a Born Liar (2002) and Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (1997), the latter presented in its 193-minute version. Subscribe HERE to the FREE Media Play News Daily Newsletter! The set includes new 4K restorations of 11 of the theatrical features, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks for all films. The set will include the films Variety Lights (1950), The White Sheik (1952), I Vitelloni (1953), La Strada (1954), Il Bidone (1955), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), And the Ship Sails On (1983) and Intervista (1987), plus a new digital restoration of the short film Toby Dammit (1968). 24 will release Essential Fellini, a 15-disc Blu-ray collection of 14 works from celebrated Italian director Federico Fellini (1920-1993) 100 years after his birth. ‘Essential Fellini’ Blu-ray Set Arrives Nov.
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