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Customer Reviews of La Strada - Criterion Collection

Charming, beautiful, and sad
Although I've greatly enjoyed movies all of my life, I have only considered myself a "film buff" for about 10 years now, and believe it or not, its taken me this long to discover the genius of Fellini. After viewing the masterpiece "8 1/2", I was anxious to check out another film by this director I have always heard so much about, and my search lead me to "La Strada". I just finished watching it about 15 minutes ago, and once again, I am deeply affected, and aware of being in the presence of brilliance.

The plot details can be read in the editorial review above, so I'll just make some comments. First of all, the story is unforgetable. If you are a lover of high art and are open-minded to the classics of cinema, there is no way you will walk away from this film unaffected. The powerful performance by Quinn, the heartbreaking, delicate perfomance by Masina, and the comical, yet touching performance by Basehart combine to produce one of the greatest ensemble performances I have ever seen on screen. Together with Fellini's magical touch, a masterpiece of cinema is born. The story is funny, yet sad....simple, yet thought-provoking. In all, it rightly deserves to be called a classic, and I recommend it to anyone who has a true appreciation of film.

Criterion Collection has done it again with another beautiful package. The transfer is near flawless. The picture is practicaly blemish free, and the unforgettable Nino Rota score is clear and vibrant. Since I just got this DVD, I haven't gotten a chance to view all the extras, but this is a double-disc set from Criterion, which usually means that its packed to the brim with wonderful supplemantal material. I know that the higher prices Criterion charges for their DVDs turns alot of folks off, but for me, I've found that the labor of love that they put into each DVD makes the slightly higher prices well worth it.

All in all, this is a phenomenal film presented wonderfuly in a great DVD package. Very highly recommended.

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Wonderful DVD by Criterion
For those who may not know, "La Strada" is a legendary film by Federico Fellini. It honestly moved me the first time I viwed it. The Gelsomina character is so adorable and lovable. There's no doubt that this is one of Fellini's greatest films, and one of the better movies ever made in film-history.

Nuff said on that obvious note - now for the transfer: obviously, this film was shot in the early 50s and most likely never had a "widescreen" version. It is presented here in a 1.33:1 fullscreen aspect-ratio and is mastered at a crisp, pristine, high-quality image. This DVD of "La Strada" by Criterion looks clean, sharp, artifact-free, and beautiful. It's captured in all it's rich, black and white beauty for all-time.

The film is obviously in Italian, and has English subtitles. There is a wonderful little bio-documentary of Fellini with some great footage and interview footage of the man at work on a seperate disk. I was very pleased with the purchase of this DVD and am thrilled to add it to my home collection. Well worth every penny!

"La Strada" is a wonderful movie through and through, and this is a wonderful DVD representation of that legendary classic.

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La Strada's English Soundtrack
In response to Stephen Lopez:I,too,contacted
Criterion regarding the English track.I received
the same reply.However,I can't accept their
answer because some years back,Criterion released
La Strada on laserdisc (a now-defunct video medium
used mainly by videophiles before the advent of DVDs)
which I've owned since its release.

The English soundtrack on this LD is flawless...not
a single "dropoff" from start to finish.

So...my hunch is that somebody at Criterion fouled

up somehow and the result is several minutes of
missing audio.

I'm still happy,however,that I purchased the DVD
because the video quality is outstanding!