Luchino Visconti’s CONVERSATION PIECE Comes To Blu-ray For The First Time Ever On April 10 From RaroVideo

(Hollywood, CA and Rome, Italy) Hailed by cinephiles for expertly restoring rare films by influential filmmakers and publishing them with compelling extras, Italian Film Boutique RaroVideo announces the CONVERSATION PIECE BLU-RAY release on April 10, 2012. In one of his last works, with an all-star Read More …

Gruppo Di Famiglia In Un Interno (Conversation Piece) (a J!-ENT DVD Review)

Considered as Luchino Visconti’s “last will & testament”, “Gruppo Di Famiglia In Un Interno” (also known as “Conversation Piece”) is another magnificent Visconti film and a personal film that I appreciated in so many levels.  “Gruppo Di Famiglia In Un Interno” has always been one Read More …

Great Italian Directors Collection (a J!-ENT DVD Review)

For those who have watched the previously released DVD or Blu-ray masterpiece of Italy’s most revered filmmakers of the ’50s and ’60s and are wanting more Antonioni, Fellini, Visconti, De Sica or Monicelli, look no further as “Great Italian Directors Collection” is a fantastic DVD Read More …

Boccaccio ’70 (a J!-ENT Blu-ray Disc Review)

Featuring four of Italy’s greatest filmmakers Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli and Luchino Visconti showing us love Italian style during the early 1960’s.   The Blu-ray release includes the Mario Monicelli’s “Renzeo e Luciana” (which was removed from the original American release) and this Read More …

February Titles From the Criterion Collection – SENSO, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, FISH TANK, STILL WALKING & AMARCORD & THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE on BD!!!

The Double Life of Véronique (BLU-RAY EDITION) This ravishing, mysterious rumination on identity, love, and human intuition remains one of the most beloved films of Krzysztof Kieslowski (Decalogue, the Three Colors trilogy). Irène Jacob (Red, Othello) is incandescent as both Weronika, a Polish choral soprano, Read More …