The Lina Wertmüller Collection - BLU-RAY

LOVE & ANARCHY In pre-World War II Italy, the employees of a popular Roman bordello realize that a new arrival (Giancarlo Giannini, Hannibal, Casino Royale) is planning to assassinate Mussolini. When one of the girls (Lina Polito, All Screwed Up) falls in love with the man, she's torn between saving him and saving her country. This is the film that put Italian director Lina Wertmueller (Swept Away) on the map of world cinema. Giannini won a Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal. THE SEDUCTION ON MIMI Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini, Man on Fire, Quantum of Solace) his livelihood in Lina Wertmuller's (Swept Away) dark comedy. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer (Mariangela Melato, Swept Away, Flash Gordon) - but he just can't shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover - and love child - under wraps. That's when his wife announces she's pregnant. ALL SCREWED UP All Screwed Up is the exuberantly funny tale about the often tragic adventures of a group of young immigrants who have come to Milan to make their fortunes. In addition to Adelina and Carletto, there are Gigi, who drifts into a life of petty crimes, Isotta, who becomes a prostitute, and Sante and Mariuccia, who marry in bliss and, in two years, are something less than blessed with seven children (one set of twins followed by quintuplets). They all soon discover that Milan is a town where everything is in it's place but nothing is in order.

Padre Padrone Winner of the 1977 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, this classic by the Taviani brothers is based on an autobiography by Gavino Ledda, The One That Got Away. Gavino is six when his father hauls him out of school to keep watch over sheep on a barren countryside, huddled in a makeshift hut night and day. The child is constantly abused by his father who treats him as his own father treated him. When the illiterate Gavino is commanded by his father to join the army, he learns a trade and a new concept of life, discovering the outside world and his own identity within it. The Night Of The Shotting Stars Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Set during the summer of 1944 in a small Tuscan town caught between the threat of destruction by the retreating German forces and the advancing American army, this is a bedtime story told by a mother to her child. A recollection of her experience during the war which takes on the quality of fairytale as seen through the eyes of a six year old. In it, the Tavianis create some of their most lyrical and poetic cinema. Kaos With a free adaptation from Luigi Pirandello's works, the Taviani brothers have constructed an ethereal odyssey into the Sicilian landscape - with four stories and an epilogue - it brings together all the main actors whom the Tavianis had previously collaborated with in a voluptuous naturalistic trip.

Three-disc set includes Fast And Loose (1930)Wealthy patriarch Bronson Lenox (Frank Morgan) was stewing because his daughter (Miriam Hopkins, in her feature debut) was dating an auto mechanic (Charles Starret), while his son (Henry Wadsworth) was squiring a chorus girl (Carole Lombard). His efforts to squelch the romances fall apart-as he discovers that the hoi-polloi lovers have more grounding and common sense than his kids. Winifred Harris, Ilka Chase co-star; Preston Sturges go-adapted this take on the Broadway farce InchThe Best People.Inch 70 min. BW/Rtg NR Man Of The World (1931)While vacationing in Paris with her wealthy uncle (Guy Kibbee), a young American woman (Carole Lombard) is wowed and wooed by a sophisticated writer (William Powell). Turns out that the alleged author's really an extortionist who preys on the rich and gullible, but is he developing genuine feelings for his new target? First Powell-Lombard pairing co-stars Wynne Gibson, Lawrence Gray. 74 min. BW/Rtg NR No Man Of Her Own (1932)In order to elude detectives, New York gambler Jerry InchBabeInch Stewart (Clark Gable) takes refuge in a small town upstate where he meets and marries librarian Connie Randall (Carole Lombard). Returning to the Big Apple, Babe reverts to his gambling ways and meets an old flame who threatens to turn him over to the law. Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell co-star in this snappy farce; Gable and Lombard's only film together. 82 min. BW/Rtg NR Standard; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; audio commentary; theatrical trailers.