Martin Scorsese has flown from London where he is filming the 3D mystery movie Hugo Cabret to unveil the digitally restored copy of Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita at the Rome film festival.
The restoration of the 1960 classic movie, which starred Anita Ekberg, was made possible by Scorsese’s Film Foundation, to which the HFPA has contributed nearly two million dollars.
Work to clean the movie’s original widescreen negative took more than 8000 hours.
“In my mind, there is a before and after La Dolce Vita,” said Scorsese, praising the film for achieving “a moral intensity, an intelligence and a maturity” that was unprecedented at that point in commercial movies.
| 1st November 2010, Categories: HFPA News |
