Milestone: Rocco and His Brothers and Maborosi Coming Soon to Blu-ray
HomeMilestone: Rocco and His Brothers and Maborosi Coming Soon to Blu-ray
Posted May 21, 2018 05:28 PM by Webmaster
U.S. label Milestone Films has announced that it will release on Blu-ray Luchino Visconti's classic film Rocco and His Brothers (1960) and Hirokazu Koreeda's Maborosi (1995).
Rocco and His Brothers
Synopsis: Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan. There, Simone and Rocco find fame, in the boxing ring, and love, in the same woman—Nadia. Jealousy mounts, blood is shed, and a striving family faces self-destruction in this incisive, sensuous, emotionally bruising masterwork from director Luchino Visconti (The Leopard, Senso).
With an operatic Nino Rota score and Giuseppe Rotunno's glimmering, on-location cinematography, Rocco and His Brothers "represents the artistic apotheosis of Italian neorealism," says A.O. Scott of The New York Times. Drawing from Dostoevsky and Thomas Mann, Visconti arranges his signature themes—modernity, class tension, familial discord—across an epic canvas that directly influenced later Italian-American sagas by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, and Claudia Cardinale lead the cast of gorgeous unknowns who rose to stardom in the wake of this film's bow at the 1960 Venice Film Festival, where it was greeted with scandal and won the Special Jury Prize.
Painstakingly restored in 4K by the Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, Rocco and His Brothers has never looked or sounded so pristine. Praised by Scorsese as "one of the most sumptuous black-and-white pictures," Rocco's baroque, impassioned majesty can once again be experienced as its filmmakers intended.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Maborosi
Synopsis: One of the finest films of Japanese cinema, Hirokazu Kore-eda's first feature film Maborosi is a story of love, loss, and ultimately, regeneration.
Haunted by the mysterious loss of her grandmother many years ago, a beautiful young mother (Yumiko, played by Makiko Esumi) struggles to come to terms with the sudden loss of her husband. Yumiko remarries and with her young son moves to her new husband's home in a remote village on the wild, untamed Sea of Japan. There, she is haunted by the past, but with time and the natural wonders around her, she awakens to find love, understanding, and a sense of peace.
Perhaps the finest Japanese director working today, Kore-eda has gone on to create such masterpieces as After Life, Nobody Knows and Still Walking. His feature films reflect back on his beginnings in documentary with a regard to truth and a incredibly humane sense of his characters' strength and fallibilities.
Working with almost entirely natural lighting, Kore-eda's remarkable and elegent camerawork makes Maborosi one of the most striking visual works in cinema.
STREET DATE: JULY 10.
Rocco and His Brothers
Synopsis: Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan. There, Simone and Rocco find fame, in the boxing ring, and love, in the same woman—Nadia. Jealousy mounts, blood is shed, and a striving family faces self-destruction in this incisive, sensuous, emotionally bruising masterwork from director Luchino Visconti (The Leopard, Senso).
With an operatic Nino Rota score and Giuseppe Rotunno's glimmering, on-location cinematography, Rocco and His Brothers "represents the artistic apotheosis of Italian neorealism," says A.O. Scott of The New York Times. Drawing from Dostoevsky and Thomas Mann, Visconti arranges his signature themes—modernity, class tension, familial discord—across an epic canvas that directly influenced later Italian-American sagas by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, and Claudia Cardinale lead the cast of gorgeous unknowns who rose to stardom in the wake of this film's bow at the 1960 Venice Film Festival, where it was greeted with scandal and won the Special Jury Prize.
Painstakingly restored in 4K by the Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, Rocco and His Brothers has never looked or sounded so pristine. Praised by Scorsese as "one of the most sumptuous black-and-white pictures," Rocco's baroque, impassioned majesty can once again be experienced as its filmmakers intended.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM by the Film Foundation and Cineteca di Bologna
- NEW video interview with Caterina d'Amico, daughter of legendary screenwriter Suso Cecchi d'Amico (Rocco, The Leopard, Bicycle Thieves).
- Video introduction by Martin Scorsese
- Video interview with cast and crew
- Before-and-after restoration featurette
- Original production outtakes
Maborosi
Synopsis: One of the finest films of Japanese cinema, Hirokazu Kore-eda's first feature film Maborosi is a story of love, loss, and ultimately, regeneration.
Haunted by the mysterious loss of her grandmother many years ago, a beautiful young mother (Yumiko, played by Makiko Esumi) struggles to come to terms with the sudden loss of her husband. Yumiko remarries and with her young son moves to her new husband's home in a remote village on the wild, untamed Sea of Japan. There, she is haunted by the past, but with time and the natural wonders around her, she awakens to find love, understanding, and a sense of peace.
Perhaps the finest Japanese director working today, Kore-eda has gone on to create such masterpieces as After Life, Nobody Knows and Still Walking. His feature films reflect back on his beginnings in documentary with a regard to truth and a incredibly humane sense of his characters' strength and fallibilities.
Working with almost entirely natural lighting, Kore-eda's remarkable and elegent camerawork makes Maborosi one of the most striking visual works in cinema.
STREET DATE: JULY 10.
