Federico Fellini 100

March 4–May 14, 2022

Romantic. Elegant. Fantastical. We welcome back to the BAMPFA screen one of the greats, Federico Fellini, a “larger-than-life maestro who created an inimitable cinematic style combining surreal carnival with incisive social critique” (Criterion).

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  • 8 1/2

  • La dolce vita

  • Nights of Cabiria

  • Amarcord

  • Upcoming
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  • Selected
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  • Past
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Past Films

  • Ginger and Fred

    • Saturday, May 14 7 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1986

    Digital Restoration

    Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as an aging dance duo invited to perform on a television variety show in Fellini’s film, both a fond tribute to vaudeville and a withering assault on the meaningless opulence of commercial television. 

  • Fellini’s Casanova

    • Friday, May 13 7 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1976

    Donald Sutherland plays Casanova in “Fellini’s most extravagant and courageous dream” (Albert Johnson). “The visual daring and pure imagination of every image leave it as an elegiac farewell to an era of Italian cinema” (Time Out). 

  • Amarcord

    • Saturday, April 16 7 PM
    • Thursday, May 12 7 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1973

    Digital Restoration

    Fellini’s free-spirited portrait of Rimini in the 1930s, when fascism was a fact of life, is “as full of tales as Scheherazade, some romantic, some slapstick, some elegiacal, some bawdy, some mysterious . . . a film of exhilarating beauty” (New York Times).

  • Fellini’s Roma

    • Sunday, May 8 4 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1972

    Digital Restoration

    Fellini’s episodic, “panoramic album of impressions in praise of Rome and the Italians, past, present, and future” (Albert Johnson).

  • Nights of Cabiria

    • Friday, March 25 7 PM
    • Friday, May 6 7 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1956

    Digital Restoration

    The great Giulietta Masina portrays the spunky prostitute Cabiria in this humorous and ultimately transformative story of the survival of the human spirit. “The masterpiece of Masina’s collaboration with Fellini” (Albert Johnson).

  • Fellini Satyricon

    • Wednesday, May 4 7 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1969

    Digital Restoration

    Fellini’s tour of ancient Rome is less historical document than decadent fantasia, following the narrator, Encolpius, as he searches for his male lover through feasts, festivals, orgies, and death. “A surreal epic” (New York Times).

  • 8 1/2

    • Saturday, March 19 7 PM
    • Friday, April 15 7 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1963

    Digital Restoration

    A jaded director (Marcello Mastroianni) fantasizes on his next great film—or his next sexual conquest—in Fellini’s metafictional masterpiece, “probably the most potent movie about filmmaking” (Guardian). 

  • The Clowns

    • Sunday, April 10 4:30 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1970

    Digital Restoration

    Fellini’s tribute to the world of the clown is—like so much of his supposedly nonfiction work—part documentary, part autobiography, and suffused with fantasy. “Fellini turns the world into his circus” (Time). 

  • The White Sheik

    • Friday, March 4 7 PM
    • Friday, April 8 6:30 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1952

    Digital Restoration

    Provincial newlyweds arriving in Rome get sidetracked by the wife’s obsession with a fumetto photo-comic star in Fellini’s solo directorial debut. “A funny, sardonic, and clever satire on popular heroes and ordinary people’s illusions” (Chicago Reader). 

  • Juliet of the Spirits

    • Sunday, April 3 4 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1965

    Digital Restoration

    A bourgeois housewife (a mesmerizing Giulietta Masina) embraces a world of fantasy in one of Fellini’s most spectacular, imaginative works.

  • La dolce vita

    • Saturday, March 12 7 PM
    • Friday, April 1 7 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1960

    Digital Restoration

    Marcello Mastroianni stars as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence of Rome in Fellini’s masterpiece, filled with jaw-dropping set pieces of both excess and warmth. “Fellini’s bizarre, extravagant visuals are absolutely riveting” (Time Out).

  • Il bidone

    • Friday, March 18 7 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1955

    Digital Restoration

    Three con men pose as priests to trick peasants out of cash in Fellini’s sadly ironic study of misguided faith, whether in religion or upward mobility. This is the closest Fellini would come to film noir.

  • La strada

    • Sunday, March 6 4:30 PM
    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1954

    Digital Restoration

    Fellini’s muse, Giulietta Masina, modeled her timeless character Gelsomina after Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp. She stars with a brutish Anthony Quinn in this classic that Martin Scorsese called “the cornerstone of Fellini’s work.”