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Arrow Films
The Witches
In the mid-sixties, famed producer Dino De Laurentiis brought together the talents of five
celebrated Italian directors for an anthology film. Their brief was simple: to direct an
episode in which Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice, Ludwig) plays a witch.
Luchino Visconti (Ossessione, Death in Venice) and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini
(Bicycle Thieves) open the film with The Witch Burned Alive, about a famous actress and
a drunken evening that leads to unpleasant revelations. Civic Sense is a lightly comic
interlude from Mauro Bolognini (The Lady of the Camelias) with a dark conclusion, and
The Earth as Seen from the Moon sees Italian comedy legend Totò team up with Pier
Paolo Pasolini (Theorem) for the first time for a tale of matrimony and a red-headed
father and son.
Franco Rosso (The Woman in the Painting) concocts a story of revenge
in The Sicilian s Wife, while Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine) casts Clint Eastwood as
Mangano s estranged husband in An Evening Like the Others, concluding The Witches
with a stunning homage to Italian comic books.
Features:
- Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements produced by Arrow Films
- exclusively for this release
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Original Italian mono audio (uncompressed LPCM)
- Brand-new audio commentary by film critic and novelist Tim Lucas
- Interview with actor Ninetto Davoli, recorded exclusively for this release
- English-language version of Vittorio De Sica s episode, An Evening Like the Others,
- starring Clint Eastwood
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham
- Humphreys
- Arrow Academy
- 121 minutes
- 15
- 16:9 - 1.66:1
- Italian
- 1
- Arrow Academy
- Luchino Visconti
- Franco Rossi
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Mauro Bolognini
- Vittorio de Sica
- Silvana Mangano
- Clint Eastwood
- Toto
- Ninetto Davoli
English
- 2018
- 2
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Arrow Films
The Witches
In the mid-sixties, famed producer Dino De Laurentiis brought together the talents of five
celebrated Italian directors for an anthology film. Their brief was simple: to direct an
episode in which Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice, Ludwig) plays a witch.
Luchino Visconti (Ossessione, Death in Venice) and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini
(Bicycle Thieves) open the film with The Witch Burned Alive, about a famous actress and
a drunken evening that leads to unpleasant revelations. Civic Sense is a lightly comic
interlude from Mauro Bolognini (The Lady of the Camelias) with a dark conclusion, and
The Earth as Seen from the Moon sees Italian comedy legend Totò team up with Pier
Paolo Pasolini (Theorem) for the first time for a tale of matrimony and a red-headed
father and son.
Franco Rosso (The Woman in the Painting) concocts a story of revenge
in The Sicilian s Wife, while Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine) casts Clint Eastwood as
Mangano s estranged husband in An Evening Like the Others, concluding The Witches
with a stunning homage to Italian comic books.
Features:
- Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements produced by Arrow Films
- exclusively for this release
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Original Italian mono audio (uncompressed LPCM)
- Brand-new audio commentary by film critic and novelist Tim Lucas
- Interview with actor Ninetto Davoli, recorded exclusively for this release
- English-language version of Vittorio De Sica s episode, An Evening Like the Others,
- starring Clint Eastwood
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham
- Humphreys
- Arrow Academy
- 121 minutes
- 15
- 16:9 - 1.66:1
- Italian
- 1
- Arrow Academy
- Luchino Visconti
- Franco Rossi
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Mauro Bolognini
- Vittorio de Sica
- Silvana Mangano
- Clint Eastwood
- Toto
- Ninetto Davoli
English
- 2018
- 2
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The Witches
A curious compendium of short dramas and comedies. As diverse a mixture of styles as you could imagine from five of Europe's more recognised artistic directors of the time. Entertaining.
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