"Actor: Marcello Mastroianni"

• L'Assassino | Blu Ray | (21/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Ladykiller of Rome. Released within months of Fellini's La Dolce Vita and Antonioni's La Notte Elio Petri's dazzling first feature L'Assassino also stars Marcello Mastroianni this time as dandyish thirtysomething antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli arrested on suspicion of murdering his older far wealthier lover Adalgisa (Micheline Presle). But as the increasingly Kafkaesque police investigation proceeds it becomes less and less important whether Martelli actually committed the crime as his entire lifestyle is effectively put on trial. Best known for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Tenth Victim Petri was one of the finest and yet most underrated Italian directors of the 1960s and 70s. Highly acclaimed on its original UK release but unjustly neglected since L'Assassino is a remarkably assured debut from one of the cinema's sharpest chroniclers of Italian social and political realities. Petri said that he wanted to reflect the changes wrought by the early sixties and to examine 'a new generation of upstarts who lacked any kind of moral scruple'. Arrow Academy is proud to present the first ever UK video release of L'Assassino in a gorgeous high-definition restoration created by the Cineteca di Bologna. Special Features: New 2K digital restoration from the Cineteca di Bologna Uncompressed Mono 2.0 PCM Audio Elio Petri and L'Assassino an introduction by Italian cinema expert Pasquale Iannone Tonino Guerra: A Poet in the Movies: Nicola Tranquillino's documentary about the great Italian screenwriter Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jay Shaw Booklet featuring new writing on the film by Elio Petri expert Camilla Zamboni plus a selection of contemporary reviews

• Beyond The Clouds | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Beyond The Clouds was director Michelangelo Antonioni's first film in ten years and also his last. This much-anticipated comeback assisted by Wim Wenders did not disappoint and displayed all the hallmarks of one of cinema's greatest legends. Adapted from Antonioni's own short stories four tales of love and desire are linked by a director in pursuit of his next project. Infatuations infidelities encounters unresolved and unrequited are presented with stunning imagery and feature a remarkable cast led by Sophie Marceau Irene Jacob Fanny Ardant John Malkovich and Jean Reno. Erotic and enigmatic Beyond The Clouds is the final work of genius in the career of a true legend who became one of European cinema's most revered and respected figures.

• Pret a Porter | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At the world's hottest fashion show there's been a murder. Now everybody's a suspect including two guests (Julia Roberts and Tim Robbins) who end up sharing more than a hotel room! Sizzling Kim Basinger also stars as s hilariously inept TV reporter on the trail of her hottest interview yet. They're all caught up in the year's biggest see-and-be-seen event - where scintillating scandals and spectacular supermodels turn up the heat in a riotous show of high-fashion hilarity!

• What? | Blu Ray | (04/07/2016) from £12.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Roman Polanski described it as the ribald adventures of an innocent girl. Critics called it an amoral, depraved disaster. More than four decades after its controversial release, it remains the most butchered, debated and least-seen film of the Oscar-winning directors entire career. The succulent Sydne Rome stars as an oft-naked American girl lost inside a Mediterranean villa inhabited by priests, pianists, perverts and a syphilitic pimp (a deliciously bizarre performance by Marcello Mastroianni) while indulging in madcap acts of gang rape, sodomy and ping-pong. Hugh Griffith (Tom Jones), Romolo Valli (Boccaccio 70) and Polanski himself co-star in this surreal and sexy comedy, now finally restored to its original running time from a vault print reportedly stolen from the wine cellar of producer Carlo Ponti! Extras: Featurette: Sydne In Wonderland - Interview With Star Sydne Rome Featurette: Memories Of A Young Pianist - Interview With Composer Claudio Gizzi Featurette: A Surreal Pop Movie - Interview With Cinematographer Marcello Gatti plus Theatrical Trailer.

• The Sunday Woman | Blu Ray | (17/04/2023) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An odious architect is beaten to death and a high society wife (Jacqueline Bisset, Day for Night) and her gay friend (Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist) are the key suspects with a discarded letter implicating them in the crime. Commissioner Santamaria (Marcello Mastroianni, Fellini's 8 ½) is assigned to the case and tries to uncover the murder suspect in upper-class Turin. With a murder mystery narrative worthy of Agatha Christie, The Sunday Woman is also a sharp critique of Turin's upper crust.The screenplay, by the celebrated duo Age & Scarpelli, famed for their masterpieces in the Commedia all'Italiana boom including Big Deal on Madonna Street and The Organizer, is a whip-smart adaptation of the best-selling novels by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini with the lead character of Santamaria inspired by the real-life head of the Flying Squad. The much-heralded director Luigi Comencini (Misunderstood) often worked in a combination of comedy and drama, finding humour in tragedy, and is only waiting to be rediscovered as a master of post-war Italian cinema. Product Features Blu-ray Limited Edition Special Features 2K restoration of the film from the original negative, presented in the original 1.33:1 and an alternate 1.85:1 widescreen presentation Original uncompressed mono PCM audio Newly filmed interview with academic and Italian cinema expert Richard Dyer, who looks at The Sunday Woman (2022, 18 mins) Archival interview with cinematographer Luciano Tovoli who discusses his work on the film (2008, 22 mins) Newly filmed interview with academic and screenwriter Giacomo Scarpelli, who discusses the life and work of his father, Furio Scarpelli and his writing partner Agenore Incrocci (2022, 36 mins) Archival French TV interview with Jean-Louis Trintignant in which the actor discusses The Sunday Woman (1976, 4 mins) Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters Limited edition 24-page booklet featuring new writing on the film by Mariangela Sansone and a reprint of an archival piece on the film

• The 10th Victim | Blu Ray | (10/03/2014) from £21.88   |  Saving you £4.87 (24.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ursula Andress voted the greatest Bond Girl ever sports another iconic bikini and this time it literally kills! Set in the near future the film opens with Andress killing her penultimate victim in The Big Hunt a reality-TV style game show which selects both 'Hunter' and 'Victim' from participants; the two then chase one another around the globe: kill your 10th victim and you win millions! Andress' final victim is the cool sun-loving Italian Marcello (Mastroianni) who also needs to notch up another kill! Oscar Winning director Elio Petri's ground-breaking film heralded generations of films like 'Rollerball' or Schwarzenegger's 'Running Man' about gladiatorial-death shows and announced our age of increasingly outrageous reality-TV and the latest fascination with 'Hunger Games' dystopia. Its exquisite Pop-Art visuals and humorous visual observations have influenced countless films none more than the Austin Powers's sets and costumes. Sourced from HD master restored in original widescreen format this truly seminal cult film is released for the 1st time in UK in this numbered collector's edition. Special Features: Exclusive Interview with Kim Newman and Paola Petri English and Italian audio with optional English Subtitles Theatrical Trailer and Shameless Trailers Photo Gallery

• Pret-a-Porter | DVD | (13/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Robert Altman's much-anticipated broadside at the world of fashion, Pret A Porter is a disappointment. The film's crazy-quilt Nashville-like narrative structure and ensemble casting (Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Lauren Bacall, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren) are a thing to behold, but the story's many interlocking pieces lack overall depth and resonating emotion. There is a grand, satiric statement about fashion and society at the end of the film, and there are hints of an aging, nostalgic filmmaker's scepticism about our post-modern world of short-lived attachments and meanings. But watching this film is a long, long uphill climb, with a lot of thin air to endure before arriving at a destination. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Casanova '70 | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita 8') stars in this classic Italian romp about Officer Andrea Rossi-Colombotti a dashing army office attached to NATO. Love and ladies are his sole pursuit as he blithely hops from bed to bed with Italy's most beautiful actresses; Virna Lisi Marisa Mell Liana Orfei and Michele Mercier. However he has an unusual libido where he can only perform when his life is in danger. With the element of danger always close this is Marcello's answer to James Bond 007 but with even more ravishing women and incredible landscapes of Italy France and the Swiss Alps. When he starts orchestrating his love life he has to avoid each of his lovers discovering the other thus he finds himself in some hilariously embarrassing scenarios.

• A Special Day aka Una Giornata Particolare (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (31/10/2016) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Italian cinema s most iconic screen couple, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni here cast against glamorous type deliver the finest and most nuanced performances of their career in this rarely seen masterpiece finally presented, restored and remastered in 4K with striking desaturated colours as originally created by its multi-awarded director Ettore Scola.. On this special day in 1938, all of fascist Rome has been mustered to a parade for Hitler visiting Mussolini. Loren s working-class housewife, Antonietta, left alone to her chores, meets the only other person left in their block, Gabriele (Mastroianni), a persecuted homosexual radio announcer. The two, who are poles apart, forge an unexpectedly close friendship that will change their perceptions of love, politics and life itself....

• Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio All Italiana) | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sica's finest post 1950's movie with Italy's finest screen actors Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni) first meets 17-year-old prostitute Filumena (Sophia Loren) in a Neapolitan brothel during WWII. After the war they become lovers on and off for 22 years. Domenico eventually rents an apartment for Filumena and even lets her run his shop but is always chasing other women. Finally on her deathbed Filumena asks Domenico to marry her (just before he had planned to marry his young cashier) and then admits she had his legitimate child. Dominico then uses different subterfuges in trying to discover which teenager might be his son.

• Ginger And Fred | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this wonderfully affectionate and satirical 1986 film italian cinematic maestro Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita 8 1/2) celebrates the legacy of Rogers and Astaire - and sends up tacky television - with this touching tale of two elderly dancers who model themselves on cinem's greatest dance duo and who reunite after 30 years for one final TV dance spectacular. starring two of Italy's greatest acting talents: Cannes `best actress' winner Giulietta Masina (Nights Of Cabir

• Massacre In Rome | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Massacre In Rome depicts one of the worst atrocities of the War which took place in Nazi occupied Rome sparking a searing political outrage: did the Vatican then led by Pope Pius XII (referred to by some as Hitler's Pope) kowtow to Nazism? After Italian Partisans killed 33 German soldiers by exploding a roadside bomb Hitler ordered the immediate execution of 10 Roman citizens for each dead soldier. When the Vatican withdrew from the matter a deadly confrontation ensued between a priest (Mastroianni) and a Nazi Officer Kapler (Burton at his best) who had been ordered to administer what would become one of the most heinous war crimes: the massacre of 335 civilians. Director Cosmatos and writer Robert Katz crank up the tension in this nerve-wracking dramatisation of Katz's own highly contentious 1967 best-seller Death in Rome in which he blamed Pope Pius XII for the massacre; and for which the author was sued upon the film's release by the Pope's heirs and sentenced to jail. The controversy continues to date as the present Pope Benedict has just declared Pius XII venerable - the first step towards Sainthood.

• The Beekeeper | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Time Regained | DVD | (12/06/2000) from £21.60   |  Saving you £-1.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A mesmerising adaptation of the last two volumes of Proust’s monumental

• Four Films From Fellini - La Dolce Vita ; I Vitelloni ; 8 1/2 ; Giuliette Degli Spiriti | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  La Dolce Vita (1960): Marcello Mastroianni plays a playboy reporter on the hunt for scandal amongst Rome's high society in this classic Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. Both drawn to and repelled by the decadent lifestyle that provides his living he finds himself torn between his passion for a starlet (Anita Ekberg) and his desire for a Bohemian life like that of his friend (Alain Cuny)... Giuliette Degli Spiriti (1965) I Vitelloni (1953): Five young men linger in post-adolescent limbo dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink women and nights at the local pool hall. Federico Fellini's second solo directorial effort is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches. An international success and recipient of an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay I Vitelloni compassionately details a year in the life of small-town layabouts struggling to find meaning in their lives. Criterion's DVD also includes an exclusive documentary featuring interviews with late actor Leopoldo Trieste and other actors technicians and scholars; the original trailer and newsreels from the time of the film's release; a collection of stills posters and memorabilia; and more. 8 1/2: (1963) One of the greatest films about film ever made Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastrioanni) is a director whose film -- and life -- is collapsing around him. An early working title for the film was La Bella Confusione (The Beautiful Confusion) and Fellini's masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream a circus and a magic act. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the 1963 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign-Language Film - one of the most written about talked about and imitated movies of all time -- in a beautifully restored new all digital transfer. Disc Two features Fellini's rarely seen first film for television Fellini: A Director's Notebook (1969). Produced by Peter Goldfarb this ""imagined documentary"" of Fellini on Fellini is a kaleidoscope of unfinished projects all of which provide a fascinating and candid window into the director's unique and creative process.

• What? | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £11.15   |  Saving you £3.84 (34.44%)   |  RRP £14.99

  More than three decades after its controversial release it remains the most butchered debated and least-seen film of the Oscar-winning director's entire career. What? a surreal comedy based loosely on the story of Alice In Wonderland follows the exploits of a young woman who tries to hitchhike across Europe but finds herself stranded in a remote Italian villa in which a bizarre band of decadent and sexually uninhibited rogues live.

• A Slightly Pregnant Man | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A male Parisian driving school owner who complains of feeling run down goes to see his doctor and is pronounced four months pregnant... A delightful French farce from Jacques Demy starring the luminescent Catherine Deneuve.

• La Dolce Vita | Blu Ray | (07/09/2020) from £20.33   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fellini was one of the most original and creative minds of the 20th century and he is recognized as one of the greatest directors of all time. La Dolce Vitais Federico Fellini's epoch-making, signature masterpiece which is always at the very top of film polls and considered one of the best and most influential films ever made. It s a spectacular and acutely relevant portrait of celebrity-obsessed culture. Starring Marcello Matroianni as the handsome tabloid journalist who gets his sensationalist gossip stories by non-stop partying and sleeping with socialites. But this apparent sweet life, this dolce vita , both excites and repels him In celebration of the Fellini Centenary, one of the most influential and celebrated films of all times - filled with iconic images of the 1960s such as the mesmerizing sequence of Anita Ekberg dancing in the Trevi Fountain - is released on Blu-ray from unique restored 4K version made for Scorsese s nonprofit institute, The Film Foundation. Makes this the benchmark release. Extras/Episodes: Exclusive in depth own-produced original (and last-ever) interview with star Anita Ekberg Definitive version from restored 4K source licensed from Scorsese s Film Foundation New updated English subtitles Fellini & other classics Trailers including: 8 1/2, JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, I VITELLONI Fellini s La Dolce Vita became a universal expression, it created the word Paparazzi and introduced Fellini-esque as cultural reference!

• Three Films From Fellini | DVD | (26/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  La Dolce Vita: Marcello Mastroianni plays a gossip columnist (the term 'paparazzi' derives from a character in the film) who aspires to be a more serious writer but knows he never will be, because like society, he is fascinated by the decadent hedonistic pursuits, which are seemingly everywhere. The Vatican was appalled by the film, but the public adored it, relishing the images Fellini fed them, most notably the now infamous scene of Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg frolicking i...

• Criterion Collection: 8 1/2 | Blu Ray | (12/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A