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Summary: Why does the DVD not play the entire movie?
Review: This DVD version of C'eravamo tanto amati was created under a non-thatrical, educational software license. We did not have the legal right to show the movie in its entirety. It was originally created as an Italian language tool. We have since purchased the theatrical rights and are in the process of remastering the DVD to allow continuous play. The new version should be available in May.Harold H. Hendricks, project director.
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Summary: Why does the DVD not play the entire movie?
Review: This DVD version of C'eravamo tanto amati was created under a non-thatrical, educational software license. We did not have the legal right to show the movie in its entirety. It was originally created as an Italian language tool. We have since purchased the theatrical rights and are in the process of remastering the DVD to allow continuous play. The new version should be available in May. Harold H. Hendricks, project director.
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Summary: An ode to friendship
Review: This film is one of the most sincere and haunting films you'll watch in you life. A careful sight into the affective world of three friends, his adventures and livings, until they find casually twenty years later; and the changes produced by the life in what they are, and their useless efforts for trying 'to freeze' the time. Beautifully filmed with surrealistic rapture images.
Manfredi and Gassman were two of the major actors in the italian cinema in any age Watch also for that legendary seductive beauty who was Stephania Sandrelli.
The dazzling script and delightful sequences are feed by a clever sense of humor. It's about the nosthalgical reflections of those years that they'll never come.
A cult movie. One of my favorites italian films.
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Summary: Fantastic movie with great fringe benefits
Review: This is a great classic of Italian cinema, and anyone who enjoys a well made movie should see this film. This DVD was particularly helpful because it includes essays on the actors and the director, along with many different versions of subtitles that vary in length. You can watch the movie with comprehensive word by word subtitles, or with ones that just summarize what's going on, and they're in Italian or English, which is helpful for students of Italian. Even with the extra content of the film aside, it is a fantastic show that portrays the life of three friends and the woman that they all fall in love with during Italy's post World War II era. It is a highly allegorical film, using the main characters as a topos of the nation Italy itself.
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Summary: Warning: The disc goes to menu after every chapter!
Review: This is a great movie, which I first saw at the Museum of Modern Art on the evening they held in honor of Nino Manfredi. I wasn't aware of anything by director Ettore Scola out on DVD, so I was surprised when I saw this movie was available at Amazon. According to the reviews I read here, it was supposed to have a so so picture quality and was also made for the purposes of learning Italian, but no one mentioned that the disc automatically went to the chapter menu after every scene. It is definitely annoying for anyone with intentions of enjoying the movie rather than learning Italian. Even if you bought this DVD to learn Italian, at one point you would like to watch the movie as a whole, I think, and the people at Brigham Young University, who produced this DVD, should have taken that into consideration and given the viewer this option as well. (I played this DVD on two different players, and tried to change some player settings too, but couldn't find a way to watch the movie without jumping to the menu every few minutes. If I am wrong and there is a way to watch the movie without interruption, please let me and all others interested know). I still don't regret that I have bought the DVD since there is no other way of owning this movie now, and it is worth putting into your collection even with the flaws of it. One thing I wish to say to whichever company owns the rights to this movie is to put this out as a regular DVD release. Looking at the director, the cast and the cameos by Fellini, De Sica, and Mastroianni, I know fans of foreign films will jump on it even if they haven't seen it and don't know what great a movie this is. Speaking of Ettore Scola and releasing great movies on DVD, his movie 'A Special Day' with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni is one of the greatest movies of all time according to many interested in film. I don't think it has been out on video since early 80s, and it is very difficult to find it anywhere to watch. So Criterion, Image, Kino, Fox Lorber, New Yorker or anyone from any other video company, who is reading this; somebody please pick this masterpiece up and release it on DVD. I am 24 and I hope I can wait for some time, but I am sure there are also older people who are dying to get this, please let them get it before they do!
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Summary: New edition of this CD is great!
Review: This is one of the best movies ever. I've just bought from Amazon.com a new edition of CD, copywrited 2001. All the problems reported from previous edition (1999) are gone. It is a great movie with Italian and English subtitles.
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Summary: Wait until the uncut version comes out, as promised
Review: This movie is one of the most moving love stories ever put on film; all you need to do is to wait until it is released in its entirety. I was stunned when I first saw it in the theatre, and although this was many years ago, I can still remember the emotion it evoked in me and how unique it was, albeit common life situation, the eternal triangle. This involves 2 men and a woman and there are scenes, one in particular, that break your heart. *WARNING: Possible spoiler...toward the end of the movie they have their pictures taken in a photo booth, and the top pictures show them mugging and smiling; then the tragedy of their situation hits and the girl is shown, on the last frame, with tears and mascara running down her face; this hit me with tremendous impact and I was very moved by it. Brigham Young University has promised to release this classic in its entirety; I strongly advise you to wait for the uncut version. It is well worth wating for, and on a par with "Les Enfants du Paradis." GREAT moviemaking...
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Summary: Filme de derroteros existenciales y frustraciones sociales
Review: Una película que encierra todas las claves del cine comprometido con los valores del propio cine. Es decir, la fragmentación del tiempo y del espacio; la detención del tiempo (Woody Allen haría lo mismo algunos años después); las referencias al propio cine; la emoción y los sentimientos como verdaderos hilos conductores del drama; los giros del lenguaje audiovisual que revoluciona rto lo establecido en conductas semiológicas; la vida que cambia, los personajes cambian y sin embargo todo queda igual. Film magistral en que la historia de cuatro amigos sirve de excusa para sumergirnos en las azarosas vidas de personas comunes y corrientes con sus derroteros existenciales y con sus frustraciones sociales. Espléndida y sentidas actuaciones de Nino manfredi, Steffano satta Flores, Stephania Sandrelli y un Vittorio Gassman único. Una de las películas más bella de la historia. Para ver y volverla a ver hasta el hastío.
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