"Director: Ettore Scola"

• Sophia Loren Gold Boxset | Blu Ray | (10/12/2018) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This truly is the definitive Sophia Loren boxset, defining her life-time achievement featuring her four most awarded films - including her Best Actress Oscar which made her the first artist to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance for TWO WOMEN. This Blu-ray set includes her most notable 1960s performances, where she's also joined by the Award-winning Marcello Mastroianni (DOLCE VITA, 8 1/2 etc). Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963), won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Marriage, Italian Style (1964) earned Loren another Oscar nomination The later A SPECIAL DAY (also Oscar nominated) is a moving, must see film by Ettore Scola which Loren describes as her favourite film. Both Loren and co-star Mastroianni, who both played against their (impossibly) glamorous image, agreed this was the highlight of their acting careers! With a career that has already spanned six decades and been honored with 50 awards, Sophia Loren remains one of the most beloved and recognisable figures in the international film world. The Academy awarded Loren another Oscar in 1991 for her body of work and was declared by the Oscar Academy itself one of world cinema's greatest treasures. Set Includes: Two Women Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Marriage Italian Style A Special Day Extras: Sophia, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow candid intimate interview of Loren with exclusive footage of her family, close friends and collaborators such as Woody Allen, Giorgio Armani and others. Vittorio D. Tribute to multi-awarded maestro filmmaker De Sica, a milestone of Cinema history. With participation from Clint Eastwood, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and many others. Ridendo E Scherzando an award-winning documentary on Ettore Scola, completed a few days before the great director passed away 4k and 2k scans Separate Italian audio with new English subtitles

• A Special Day aka Una Giornata Particolare | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• A Special Day aka Una Giornata Particolare (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (31/10/2016) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Italian cinema s most iconic screen couple, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni here cast against glamorous type deliver the finest and most nuanced performances of their career in this rarely seen masterpiece finally presented, restored and remastered in 4K with striking desaturated colours as originally created by its multi-awarded director Ettore Scola.. On this special day in 1938, all of fascist Rome has been mustered to a parade for Hitler visiting Mussolini. Loren s working-class housewife, Antonietta, left alone to her chores, meets the only other person left in their block, Gabriele (Mastroianni), a persecuted homosexual radio announcer. The two, who are poles apart, forge an unexpectedly close friendship that will change their perceptions of love, politics and life itself....

• A Special Day | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbour Mastroianni. As the day segues into night Loreon and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life.