The Leopard = : Il Gattopardo

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Call Number: DVD FLC-ITA Leopard
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
Special features: (Disc one) new high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, with restored image and sound and presented in the original Super Technirama aspect ratio of 2.21:1; audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie; new and improved English subtitle translation; optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition; (Disc two) A Dying Breed: The Making of The Leopard, a new hour-long documentary featuring interviews with actress Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, director of photography Giuseppe Totunno, filmmaker Sydney Pollack, and many others; Interview with producer Goffredo Lombardo; an exclusive video interview with professor Millicent Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania on the history behind The Leopard; original theatrical trailers and newsreels; stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes production photos;
(Disc three) new transfer of the 161-minute American release, with English-language dialogue (including Burt Lancaster's actual voice); plus: a new essay by author and film historian Michael Wood.
Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paola Stoppa, Rina Morelli.
Recounting the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy. Contains the original Italian version with optional subtitles, the English-language version and special features.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Tedious and Dated submitted by ekjensen on August 22, 2012, 2:24pm This film was on my bucket list of older foreign cinema views, but it is long with too much dialogue and less insight to the Garibaldi uprising and the rising middle class influence over the aristocracy. The ballroom scene is stunning, and the war scene seems a bit contrived, obviously, by today's standards.