Fellini Satyricon: The Criterion Collection

Fellini Satyricon: The Criterion Collection

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Federico Fellini's career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petronius's classical Roman satire - written during the reign of Nero. An episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence and eye-catching grotesquerie, Fellini Satyricon follows the exploits of two pansexual young men - the handsome scholar Encolpius (Martin Potter) and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus (Hiram Keller) - as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess. Creating apparent chaos with exquisite control, Fellini constructs a weird old world that feels almost like science fiction.


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Reasons to Buy

  1. This is certainly Federico Fellini's gayest cinematic endeavor.
  2. Get a glimpse of Rome B.C. and think about what fun it must have been to own sex slaves and have a new bathhouse around every corner.
  3. A sumptuous visual feast, Satyricon received a five-minute standing ovation after it first premiered at the 30th Venice Film Festival on September 4, 1969.

DVD Features

Audio commentary featuring an adaptation of Eileen Lanouette Hughes’s memoir On the Set of ""Fellini Satyricon:" A Behind-the-Scenes Diary"
"Ciao, Federico!," Gideon Bachmann’s hour-long documentary shot on the set of "Fellini Satyricon"
Archival interviews with director Federico Fellini
New interview with Rotunno
New documentary about Fellini’s adaptation of Petronius’s work, featuring interviews with classicists Luca Canali, a consultant on the film, and Joanna Paul
New interview with photographer Mary Ellen Mark about her experiences on the set and her iconic photographs of Fellini and his film
"Felliniana," a presentation of "Fellini Satyricon" ephemera from the collection of Don Young
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Wood

Information

  • Director: Federico Fellini
  • Writer: Federico Fellini
  • Length: 2 hrs. 10 mins.
  • Rating: R
  • Released: Feb 24 2015
  • Production Year: 1969
  • TLA SKU: 1719820
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC Code: 715515136518
  • Catalog #: DB10640204

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3 Reviews for Fellini Satyricon: The Criterion Collection

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Review by Raymond Murray

By: Raymond Murray
In-House Review - Nov 18 2014
Set in Nero's decadent Rome, Fellini Satyricon, an free-form adaptation of the book by Petronius, is a wild and purposefully shocking phantasmagoria.

Two handsomely athletic youths, the blonde and beautiful Encolpius (Martin Potter) and ... Read More
4.75 out of 5

Review by gbelly

By: gbelly
A visual feast!

Review by Amos Lassen

By: Amos Lassen
"Fellini Satyricon" is an episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence and eye-catching grotesquerie that follows the exploits of two pansexual young men, the handsome scholar Encolpius (Martin Potter) and his vulgar, insatiably lusty ... Read More

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