Kino Lorber Releases the Sophia Loren Award Collection in a five-disc Blu-ray set and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (63′) on DVD
New York, NY – September 13, 2011 – Kino Lorber is proud to announce the Blu-ray release of the Sophia Loren Award Collection, a 5-disc set featuring four of Ms. Loren’s most acclaimed films: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), Marriage Italian Style (1964), Sunflower (1970), all directed by Italian master filmmaker Vittorio De Sica; the landmark anthology film Boccaccio ’70 (consisting of four short stories directed by some of the biggest names in Italian cinema, including De Sica, Fellini, Mario Monicelli and Luchino Visconti); and a special feature-length documentary, Vittorio D., about the great Vittorio De Sica, who collaborated with Loren on all the films in this collection.
All of these films are now available together in this special collection that showcases one of cinema’s greatest stars. The Sophia Loren Award Collection (Blu-ray) is available with a street date of September 20, and is priced at $99.95.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is also being released on DVD as a single disc. Priced at $24.95, it is available with a street date of September 20.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
“A wonderfully elaborated burlesque…”
– The New York Times
Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar® at the 1965 Academy Awards®, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. In Naples, they are poor but resourceful, selling black market cigarettes on the streets. In Milan, Loren is costumed in Christian Dior and debates her preference for a Rolls Royce or her husband.
And in Rome, Mastroianni is an industry scion who helps Loren’s prostitute set a wavering priest back onto the spiritual plane. This episode features Sophia’s famous striptease, which was recreated 30 years later in Robert Altman’s Ready To Wear. Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio De Sica (Two Women, Marriage Italian Style) is picture-postcard beautiful and effortlessly hilarious.
Also featured in this special 2-disc set is Vittorio D., a documentary on the life and legacy of the great director (and frequent Loren collaborator) that offers fascinating interviews with Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, Mike Leigh and many others.
Special 2-disc set:
Disc 1: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Bonus features include:
Trailers
Stills Gallery
Disc 2: Vittorio D., a feature-length documentary about Vittorio DeSica
Bonus features include:
Galleries
Italy / 1963 / 118 min. / Color / Italian w/English subtitles / 16:9
Marriage Italian Style (1964)
“Wonderfully flamboyant…rich and delicious…”
– The New York Times
One of the most famous, and funniest, Italian comedies of all time, Marriage Italian Style received nominations for Best Foreign Film, and Best Actress for Sophia Loren, at the Academy Awards®. Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman Domenico, who discovers Loren’s Filumena as a young prostitute and keeps her as his mistress and confidante. When he chooses to marry a young cashier instead of her, Filumena is furious, and resorts to a series of wild and hilarious ruses to win back his hand. Directed by the great Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief), Marriage Italian Style is a timelessly bawdy classic.
Bonus features include:
Trailers Theatrical
Promo
Stills Gallery
Italy / 1964 / 101 min. / Color / Italian w/English subtitles / 16:9
Sunflower (1970)
An Oscar® nominee for Best Score (Henry Mancini), Sunflower is a grandly emotional melodrama featuring a stunning performance from Sophia Loren. In another of the actress’s great collaborations with director Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief), Loren plays Giovanna, a steel-willed Italian woman on a desperate search to find her husband Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), who has gone missing on the WWII battlefields of Russia. Making the grueling overland journey years after the end of the war, she tracks Antonio down and finds him a changed man. This heart-wrenching reunion will forever alter the course of their lives. Full of stunning images and powerful acting, Sunflower is a devastating romantic epic you won’t soon forget.
Bonus features include:
Theatrical Promo Stills Gallery
Italy / 1970 / 107 min. / Color / Italian w/English subtitles / 16:9
Boccaccio ’70 (1962)
“It has glamour, sophistication, color, wit and sensuality!” – The New York Times
“A runaway success! Three aces back-to-back!” – The Daily Mirror
Four legendary Italian filmmakers direct some of Europe’s biggest stars in Boccaccio ’70 (1962), a landmark anthology film.
Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (8 1/2), Luchino Visconti (The Leopard) and Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through four stories of unashamed eros. Modeled on Boccaccio’s Decameron, they are comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy.
Monicelli’s “Renzo e Luciana” (cut out of the original American release) is a frothy tale of young love and office politics in the big city. Fellini’s notorious “Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio” features Ekberg as a busty model in a milk advertisement whose image begins to haunt an aging prude. Visconti’s “Il Lavoro” stars Romy Schneider as a trophy wife enduring her husband’s very public affairs, and De Sica’s “La Riffa” raffles off a night with Sophia Loren to a lucky ticket-holder during a small town fair.
Bursting with passion and sly satire, Boccaccio ’70 is a glittering showcase for some of the greatest talents in movie history.
Bonus features include:
Poster and still gallery
Original American theatrical trailer
16×9 (1920x1080p) / 1.85:1 / 204 minutes / Italian w/ English Subtitles / Mono 1.0 / Not Rated / Color
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Now Available as a single DVD
Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar® at the 1965 Academy Awards®, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. In Naples, they are poor but resourceful, selling black market cigarettes on the streets. In Milan, Loren is costumed in Christian Dior and debates her preference for a Rolls Royce or her husband. And in Rome, Mastroianni is an industry scion who helps Loren’s prostitute set a wavering priest back onto the spiritual plane. This episode features Sophia’s famous striptease, which was recreated 30 years later in Robert Altman’s Ready To Wear.
Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio De Sica (Two Women, Marriage Italian Style) is picture-postcard beautiful and effortlessly hilarious.
This single-disc DVD of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is available for prebook on August 23rd, with a street date of September 20th, and a SRP of $24.95.
Bonus features include:
Trailers
Stills Gallery
Italy / 1963 / 118 min. / Color / Italian w/English subtitles / 16:9
THE SOPHIA LOREN AWARD COLLECTION (Blu-ray)
Directors: Vittorio De Sica, Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti
Prebook date: August 23
Street date: September 20
SRP: $99.95
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW (Single DVD)
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Prebook date: August 23
Street date: September 20
SRP: $24.95