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Rome Open City, Paisan, Germany Year Zero: Filmed mostly on the streets in newly-liberated territory, Roberto Rossellini’s gripping war-related shows are blessed with new restorations but still reflect their rough origins. The second picture, the greater masterpiece, looks as if it were improvised out of sheer artistic will.

Roberto Rosselini’s War Trilogy

Rome Open City, Paisan, Germany Year Zero

Blu-ray

The Criterion Collection 500 (497, 498, 499)

1945-1948 / B&W / 1:37 & 1:33 flat full frame / 302 minutes / Street Date July 11, 2017 / available from the Criterion Collection 79.96

Starring: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani; Dots Johnson, Harriet White Medin; Edmund Moeschke, Franz-Otto Krüger.

Cinematography: Ubaldo Arata; Otello Martelli; Robert Julliard.

Film Editor: Eraldo Da Roma

Original Music: Renzo Rossellini

Written by Sergio Amidei, Alberto Consiglio, Federico Fellini; Klaus Mann, Marcello Pagliero, Alfred Hayes, Vasco Pratolini; Max Kolpé, Carlo Lizzani.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini

Criterion released an identical-for-content DVD set of this trilogy in 2010; the new Blu-ray...

The Criterion Collection will venture to the Zone this July, and much more, as they’ve announced their new titles for the month. Andrei Tarkovsky‘s long-rumored sci-fi masterpiece Stalker will arrive with a new 2K restoration. The release will also include a new interview with author Geoff Dyer and newly translated English subtitles. Also arriving in July is Albert Brooks‘ satirical comedy Lost in America, featuring a new conversation with the director and Robert Weide, as well as interviews with the cast and crew.

One of the most notable releases of the month is Robert Bresson‘s masterful final film L’argent, which tracks a counterfeit bill through Paris, and the people it touches. Lastly, Roberto Rossellini‘s powerful War Trilogy is getting a much-deserved Blu-ray upgrade with new versions of Rome Open City, Paisan, and Germany Year Zero. Check out the high-resolution cover art below and full release details.

L’eclisse

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

Written by Michelangelo Antonioni and Tonino Guerra

Italy, 1962

L’eclisse is the third film in Michelangelo Antonioni’s so-called “Trilogy of Alienation,” the preceding works having been L’avventura and La notte. (With justification, some would argue that Red Desert, his next film, truly rounds out what would then be considered a tetralogy). While the three films taken together do explore many of the same themes relating to spiritual emptiness, the disbanding of relationships, and a struggle to communicate in an increasingly modern and alienating world, L’eclisse differs from the two earlier works most notably in its increasingly experimental style and its blatant departures from conventional storytelling and formal design.

A tumultuous relationship begins L’eclisse, as we arrive in medias res, near the end of the rather unpleasantly crumbling relationship between Riccardo (Francisco Rabal) and Vittoria (Monica Vitti). Inside Riccardo’s claustrophobic home,...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 10, 2014

Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95

Studio: Criterion

Ennui lives!: Francisco Rabal and Monica Vitti in Antonioni's L’eclisse.

The 1962 Italian drama L’eclisse is the concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L’avventura and La notte).

L’eclisse (The Eclipse) tells the story of a young woman (L’avventura’s Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Viridiana’s Francisco Rabal) and drifts into a relationship with another (Purple Noon’s Alain Delon).

Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of connection in an alienating modern world.

Criterion’s Blu-ray/DVD Combo edition of the movie, which is presented in Italian with English subtitles, contains the following features:

• New, restored high-definition digital film transfer, with...

Adriano Aprà, Yoon Jong-chan and Mark Peranson make up Korean Film Competition jury.

The 15th Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff) has announced its Korean Film Competition jury to be made up of renowned Italian critic Adriano Aprà, Korean filmmaker Yoon Jong-chan and Locarno fest programmer Mark Peranson.

In addition to teaching and authoring books on film history, Apra has written for Filmcritica and Cinema & Film and was involved in programming for the Pesaro and Salsomaggiore film festivals as well as running the Cineteca Nazionale in Rome.

Yoon made his feature debut with award-winning horror film Sorum, which he followed up with Blue Swallow and I Am Happy. His most recent film My Paparotti won the Grand Prize at Fukuoka Asian Film Festival and was in the 14th Jiff’s Korea Cinemascape section.

In addition to programming for the Locarno and Vancouver film festivals, Peranson is editor and publisher of Cinema Scope magazine and has written for publications...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 29, 2013

Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95

Studio: Criterion

Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau confront their alienation from each other in La Notte.

The 1961 film drama La Notte is Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni’s (Beyond the Clouds) follow-up to the epochal L’avventura.

Marcello Mastroianni (Marriage Italian Style) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules and Jim) star as a novelist and his frustrated wife who, over the course of one night, confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeois Milan circles in which they travel. Alongside side of them, Antonioni’s muse Monica Vitti (Red Desert) smolders as an industrialist’s tempting daughter.

A psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work filled with moodily sensual cinematography and subtly expressive performances, La Notte is a provocative portrayal of romantic and social deterioration.

Presented in Italian with English subtitles, the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD contain the following features:

• New 4K digital restoration,...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Sept. 24, 2013

Price: DVD $79.95, Blu-ray $79.95

Studio: Criterion

George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman's marriage falls apart in Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy.

In the late 1940s, the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca ) found herself so moved by the revolutionary Neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini (Open City) that she sent the director a letter, introducing herself and offering her talents. The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama, each starring Bergman as a woman experiencing physical dislocation and psychic torment in postwar Italy. It also famously led to a scandalous affair and eventual marriage between filmmaker and star, and the focus on their personal lives in the press unfortunately overshadowed the extraordinary films they made together.

Stromboli, Europe ’51, and Journey to Italy are intensely personal portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the...