And the Ship Sails On - Criterion Collection

Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti, Peter Cellier, Elisa Mainardi
Studio: Criterion
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 16 reviews
Sales Rank: 43297

Format: Color, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Italian (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 127 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: DAND090D
ISBN: 0780022270
UPC: 037429139028
EAN: 9780780022270
ASIN: 0780022270

Theatrical Release Date: 1983
Release Date: September 14, 1999
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5 out of 5 stars Another underrated Fellini film...    May 6, 2007
Grigory's Girl (NYC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is really a charming, sweet, intelligent chapter in the Fellini saga. Made in 1983, when great film artists like Fellini were having difficulty getting projects financed, it stands as another underrated gem from Federico. Many critics have said that Fellini never made a good film after Amarcord, but that simply isn't true. This film is as wonderful as that film. It's not as surreal as 8 1/2, but it still stands on its own. The opening scene is shot on an old hand crank camera, and it's a beautiful set up for what's about to come. The whole film is shot in a studio, complete with a fake skyline and a fake ocean, but Fellini never attempts to make it look real, which is why the film works so well. I remember watching this with an ex of mine, and it turned out to be her first (and probably only) exposure to a foreign film. Shortly after watching this with me, she dumped me for a piece of white trash (who shortly dumped her). Hopefully, Fellini wasn't responsible, but then I'd rather watch a Fellini film over a bad relationship anyday. Another great filmmaker, Catherine Breillat, worked on this film as well. It's probably the happiest film she ever did. Freddie Jones, a British actor (Firefox, The Elephant Man, Pennies from Heaven), fits right into Fellini's scheme of things, even though he's dubbed in Italian. All the actors have the "Fellini face" here, and it's a wonderful film. Most of all, I love the rhinoceros. Remember, they give excellent milk.




5 out of 5 stars A charmer.    February 7, 2007
M. Elaine Wood (Richmond, VA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I love the poetic, dreamlike quality of this film, and the absolute sweetness of the whole concept. Doesn't always make linear sense, but it always makes emotional sense, and I suspect that was what Fellini intended. And Freddie Jones is simply perfect as Orlando, a gently clownish figure who is never allowed to become just a buffoon. Admittedly, I've had a crush on Mr. Jones, ever since seeing him in "The Bliss of Mrs Blossom" as a teenager, lo these many years ago. Can't help it, I'm a sucker for men who make me laugh...

And be sure to make especial note of the opening sequence, which is mesmerizing. Fellini knew how to use film in ways too few directors of the modern era do.


5 out of 5 stars A brilliant film    November 12, 2005
Gordon M. Wagner (Suburbia)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful

You will sit stunned watching this movie. It's an effortless masterpiece by a genius, a legend. It's also playful and funny as hell. Definitely worth acquiring. I love a good movie, and this is about as good as they get. A well-told story is a true joy.

Did you know that camels give excellent milk..?


5 out of 5 stars Poetic Masterpiece    October 13, 2005
Gil (ISRAEL)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

A beautiful film, taken in a studio, unforgetable scenes, Fellini at his best.


5 out of 5 stars Baroque modernity (for mature audiences only)    September 1, 2005
John D. Blanco (San Diego, CA USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

If Walter Benjamin were a filmmaker, he would have been the late Federico Fellini. I can see how or why younger audiences wouldn't enjoy this film, just as I can understand how unabashedly smitten I am with it. Here, Fellini does away with the gimmicks, the psychologism, and the will to novelty, which characterize his earlier films. "E il navo va" superimposes and juxtaposes a series of histories in counterpoint -- Italy before the war, art in the age of mechanical reproduction, and Fellini's own career as a creator of illusions that are capable of conveying the simple mysteries of life and death (or even, the life drive and the death drive). In the globalization of disenchantment, this is no small task. This gem of a movie shows that Fellini is up to it.

If the last scene doesn't make you at least sigh, put the movie away for about ten or fifteen years before you pick it up again. Some dreams can't be read or understood until the time of dreams is itself drawing to an end.