La Notte (1961) PAL DVD9 VIDEO TS

Description:

Link......: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054130/



Year.............: 1961

Country..........: Italy / France

Audio............: DD 2.0

Subtitles........: English, none

Video Format.....: 1.66:1

DVD Source.......: DVD-9

DVD Format.......: PAL

DVD distributor..: http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/la-notte/Menus..........: [x] Untouched, intact.



Video..........: [x] Untouched, intact.



DVD-extras.....: [x] Untouched, intact.



DVD-Audio......: [x] Untouched, intact.• New restoration of the film in its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio

with previously censored sequences restored for the first time.

Anamorphically encoded.



• New and improved English subtitles.



• Original Italian theatrical trailer.



One of the masterworks of 1960s cinema, La notte [The Night] marked yet

another development in the continuous stylistic evolution of its director,

Michelangelo Antonioni — even as it solidified his reputation as one

of the greatest artists of the 20th century. La notte is Antonioni’s

“Twilight of the Gods”, but composed in cinematic terms. Examined

from a crane-shot, it’s a sprawling study of Italy’s upper middle-class;

seen in close-up, it’s an x-ray of modern man’s psychic desolation.



Two of the giants of film-acting come together as a married couple

living in crisis: Marcello Mastroianni (La dolce vita, 8 1/2) and

Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim, Bay of Angels). He is a renowned author

and “public intellectual”; she is “the wife”. Over the course of one

day and the night into which it inevitably bleeds, the pair will come

to re-examine their emotional bonds, and grapple with the question

of whether love and communication are even possible in a world built

out of profligate idylls and sexual hysteria.



Photographed in rapturous black-and-white by the great Gianni

di Venanzo (8 1/2, Giulietta degli spiriti), La notte presents

the beauty of seduction, then asks: “When did this occur —

this seduction of Beauty?” The Masters of Cinema Series is

proud to present Michelangelo Antonioni’s haunted odyssey

in a new digital restoration, uncut for the first time

ever on home video.thanks goes to staralfur @ Tik