La Strada (1954) (World Classics) (Blu-ray)

La Strada (1954) (World Classics) (Blu-ray)Regarded by some as Federico Fellini's (La Dolce Vita) finest work and the winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, La Strada is a masterpiece of 20th Century filmmaking. Sold by her impoverished mother to Zampano (Anthony Quinn, Zorba the Greek), a brutish fairground wrestler, waif like Gelsomina (Giuletta Masina, Ginger and Fred) lives a life of drudgery as his assistant. After taking to the road with a travelling circus, a

A BRIDGE TOO FAR

and to talk about it with other people

and Miss Wilcox inquires about arrangements for the holidays

But when Fanny accidentally bumps into Alain

"The Hunter" (Tom Skerritt) stalks Joe relentlessly across a barren wilderness

a hero of the modernist literary revolution

and from tango dancers to fiery fashionistas

Approach the tricky subjects of friends

As well as offering fresh insights into the influences that went into the making of Narayan's fiction

As the sinister truth unfolds

Keller enters into a passionate affair

and the theft of an Edgar Allen Poe manuscript