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

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  • The White Sheik

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1952

    Digital Restoration

    Friday, March 4 7 PM

    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). 

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  • La strada

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1954

    Digital Restoration

    Sunday, March 6 4:30 PM

    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.”

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  • La dolce vita

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1960

    Digital Restoration

    Saturday, March 12 7 PM

    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).

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  • Il bidone

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1955

    Digital Restoration

    Friday, March 18 7 PM

    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.

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  • 8 1/2

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1963

    Digital Restoration

    Saturday, March 19 7 PM

    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). 

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  • Nights of Cabiria

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1956

    Digital Restoration

    Friday, March 25 7 PM

    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).

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  • La dolce vita

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1960

    Digital Restoration

    Friday, April 1 7 PM

    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).

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  • Juliet of the Spirits

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1965

    Digital Restoration

    Sunday, April 3 4 PM

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

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  • The White Sheik

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1952

    Digital Restoration

    Friday, April 8 6:30 PM

    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). 

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  • The Clowns

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1970

    Digital Restoration

    Sunday, April 10 4:30 PM

    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). 

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  • 8 1/2

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1963

    Digital Restoration

    Friday, April 15 7 PM

    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). 

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  • Amarcord

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1973

    Digital Restoration

    Saturday, April 16 7 PM

    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).

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  • Fellini Satyricon

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1969

    Digital Restoration

    Wednesday, May 4 7 PM

    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).

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  • Nights of Cabiria

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1956

    Digital Restoration

    Friday, May 6 7 PM

    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).

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  • Fellini’s Roma

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1972

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    Sunday, May 8 4 PM

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

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  • Amarcord

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1973

    Digital Restoration

    Thursday, May 12 7 PM

    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).

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  • Fellini’s Casanova

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1976
    Friday, May 13 7 PM

    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). 

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  • Ginger and Fred

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1986

    Digital Restoration

    Saturday, May 14 7 PM

    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. 

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