Fellini Satyricon (#747)

Federico Fellinis career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petroniuss 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 menthe handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltusas they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess. Creating apparent chaos with exquisite control, Fellini constructs a weird old world that feels like science fiction.

SPECIAL FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

Audio commentary featuring an adaptation of Eileen Lanouette Hughess memoir On the Set of Fellini Satyricon: A Behind-the-Scenes Diary

Ciao, Federico!, Gideon Bachmanns hour-long documentary shot on the set of Fellini Satyricon

Archival interviews with director Federico Fellini

New interview with Rotunno

New documentary about Fellinis adaptation of Petroniuss 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 scholar Michael Wood