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
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La dolce vita
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Nights of Cabiria
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Amarcord
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Past Films
The White Sheik
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1952Digital Restoration
Friday, March 4 7 PMView DetailsProvincial 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).
La strada
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1954Digital Restoration
Sunday, March 6 4:30 PMView DetailsFellini’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.”
La dolce vita
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1960Digital Restoration
Saturday, March 12 7 PMView DetailsMarcello 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
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1955Digital Restoration
Friday, March 18 7 PMView DetailsThree 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.
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Federico Fellini
Italy, 1963Digital Restoration
Saturday, March 19 7 PMView DetailsA 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).
Nights of Cabiria
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1956Digital Restoration
Friday, March 25 7 PMView DetailsThe 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).
La dolce vita
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1960Digital Restoration
Friday, April 1 7 PMView DetailsMarcello 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).
Juliet of the Spirits
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1965Digital Restoration
Sunday, April 3 4 PMView DetailsA bourgeois housewife (a mesmerizing Giulietta Masina) embraces a world of fantasy in one of Fellini’s most spectacular, imaginative works.
The White Sheik
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1952Digital Restoration
Friday, April 8 6:30 PMView DetailsProvincial 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).
The Clowns
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1970Digital Restoration
Sunday, April 10 4:30 PMView DetailsFellini’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).
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Federico Fellini
Italy, 1963Digital Restoration
Friday, April 15 7 PMView DetailsA 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).
Amarcord
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1973Digital Restoration
Saturday, April 16 7 PMView DetailsFellini’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 Satyricon
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1969Digital Restoration
Wednesday, May 4 7 PMView DetailsFellini’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).
Nights of Cabiria
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1956Digital Restoration
Friday, May 6 7 PMView DetailsThe 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’s Roma
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1972Digital Restoration
Sunday, May 8 4 PMView DetailsFellini’s episodic, “panoramic album of impressions in praise of Rome and the Italians, past, present, and future” (Albert Johnson).
Amarcord
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1973Digital Restoration
Thursday, May 12 7 PMView DetailsFellini’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 Casanova
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1976Friday, May 13 7 PMView DetailsDonald 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).
Ginger and Fred
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1986Digital Restoration
Saturday, May 14 7 PMView DetailsGiulietta 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.
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