Federico Fellini at 100
January 16–May 21, 2020
A centennial celebration of one of the greats of international art cinema, a master of memory, dreams, fantasy, and desire.
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8 1/2
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La dolce vita
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La strada
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Nights of Cabiria
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I vitelloni
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Amarcord
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City of Women
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The White Sheik
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1952Digital Restoration
The White Sheik also screens Wednesday, February 12, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Thursday, January 16 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).
CANCELED: La dolce vita
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1960The May 16 screening has been canceled. Learn more
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Film to Table dinner follows the January 26 screeningSaturday, January 18 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).
Variety Lights
Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada
Italy, 1950Variety Lights also screens Wednesday, February 5, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Sunday, January 19 4:30 PMView DetailsFollowing a troupe of small-time vaudevillians led by an incorrigible dreamer (Peppino De Filippo) and his fiancée (Giulietta Masina), this was Fellini’s first look at the passions and dreams of eccentrics living beyond bourgeois society—but not his last.
Amarcord
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1973All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been canceled through March 29. Learn more
Digital Restoration
Amarcord also screens Wednesday, April 1, with a lecture by David Thomson.
Thursday, January 23 7 PMView DetailsFellini’s free-spirited portrait of Rimini in the 1930s, when fascism was a fact of life. “As full of tales as Scheherazade, some romantic, some slapstick, some elegiacal, some bawdy, some mysterious . . . a film of exhilarating beauty” (New York Times).
I vitelloni
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1953I vitelloni also screens Wednesday, February 19, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Saturday, January 25 7:30 PMView DetailsFellini paired with the great Italian comic everyman Alberto Sordi for this look at the not-so-young sons of the middle class, (barely) growing up in the provincial town of Rimini. “One of the screen’s great portrayals of the hell-raising and malaise of young men” (Chicago Tribune).
CANCELED: La dolce vita
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1960The May 16 screening has been canceled. Learn more
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Film to Table dinner follows the January 26 screeningSunday, January 26 3:30 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).
La strada
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1954La strada also screens Wednesday, February 26, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Saturday, February 1 5:30 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 has called “the cornerstone of Fellini’s work.”
8 1/2
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1963Film to Table dinner follows the February 15 screening
8 1/2 also screens Wednesday, March 18, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Thursday, February 6 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” (The Guardian).
8 1/2
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1963Film to Table dinner follows the February 15 screening
8 1/2 also screens Wednesday, March 18, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Saturday, February 15 5 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” (The Guardian).
Open City
Roberto Rossellini
Italy, 1945Digital Restoration
Open City also screens Wednesday, January 29, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Saturday, February 22 5:30 PMView DetailsA group of women and children (led by a charismatic Anna Magnani) try to shelter resistance forces from the Nazis. Rossellini’s moving, inspiring, and agonizing neorealist classic was cowritten by Fellini.
Paisan
Roberto Rossellini
Italy, 1946Digital Restoration
Sunday, February 23 2 PMView DetailsAn episodic, semidocumentary portrait of wartime Italy, from Sicily during the Allied invasion to the Po Valley near the war’s end. “One of the strongest antiwar films ever made” (New York Times), it was cowritten by Fellini.
The Flowers of St. Francis
Roberto Rossellini
Italy, 1949Saturday, February 29 5:30 PMView DetailsCowritten by Fellini, Rossellini’s episodic tribute to the People’s Saint is constructed with crafty simplicity, rich humanity, and earthly joy. “A glorious hallucination of perfect harmony between man and nature” (Dave Kehr).
8 1/2
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1963Film to Table dinner follows the February 15 screening
8 1/2 also screens Wednesday, March 18, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Sunday, March 1 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” (The Guardian).
CANCELED: Fellini’s Roma
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1972All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more
Digital Restoration
Friday, March 13 7 PMView DetailsFellini’s episodic, “panoramic album of impressions in praise of Rome and the Italians, past, present, and future” (Albert Johnson).
CANCELED: Fellini Satyricon
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1969All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Digital Restoration
Sunday, March 22 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).
CANCELED: Fellini’s Casanova
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1976All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
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Friday, March 27 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).
CANCELED: A Fellini Omnibus
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
This program also screens Wednesday, March 4, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Friday, April 3 6:30 PMView DetailsThree Fellini shorts originally released as parts of omnibus films: The Marriage Agency (from the neorealist anthology Love in the City), The Temptations of Doctor Antonio (from the Decameron-inspired sex farce Boccaccio ’70), and Toby Dammit (from the Poe collection Spirits of the Dead).
CANCELED: The Clowns
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1970All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Digital Restoration
The Clowns also screens Wednesday, March 25, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Sunday, April 5 7 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).
CANCELED: Il bidone
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1955All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Digital Restoration
The screening of Il bidone listed in the BAMPFA Program Guide on February 16 has been rescheduled for Friday, April 24, at 7 PM. We regret any inconvenience.
Friday, April 24 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. The closest Fellini would come to film noir.
CANCELED: Orchestra Rehearsal
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1979All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Digital Restoration
Sunday, April 26 4 PMView DetailsOriginally made for Italian TV, this satirical pseudo-documentary about the tensions within an orchestra draws on Fellini’s collaborations with composer Nino Rota. With Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, a self-reflective wander through the director’s mind and the city of Rome.
CANCELED: Nights of Cabiria
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1956All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Digital Restoration
Friday, May 1 5:30 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).
CANCELED: City of Women
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1980All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Saturday, May 2 7:30 PMView DetailsFellini’s aging alter ego Marcello Mastroianni wanders through a woman-dominated dreamscape in this surrealist fantasia of female power and male sexual anxiety, the director’s fascinating attempt to grapple with feminism.
CANCELED: And the Ship Sails On
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1983All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Digital Restoration
Wednesday, May 6 7 PMView DetailsThe admirers of a recently deceased opera diva gather on an ocean liner for a final voyage in Fellini’s opulently stylized drama, “a celebration of spectacle” (Vincent Canby).
CANCELED: Nights of Cabiria
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1956All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Digital Restoration
Thursday, May 7 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).
CANCELED: Juliet of the Spirits
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1965All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
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Saturday, May 9 7 PMView DetailsA bourgeois housewife (a mesmerizing Giulietta Masina) embraces a world of fantasy in one of Fellini’s most spectacular, imaginative works.
CANCELED: Ginger and Fred
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1986All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Digital Restoration
Sunday, May 10 4:30 PMView DetailsGiulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as an aging dance duo invited to perform on a TV variety show in Fellini’s film, both a fond tribute to vaudeville and a withering assault on the meaningless opulence of commercial television.
CANCELED: Intervista
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1987All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Digital Restoration
Thursday, May 14 7 PMView DetailsFellini turns the camera on himself in this pseudo-documentary, which uses a Japanese TV crew’s visit to the Cinecittà studio as the pretext for a series of glimpses into the filmmaker’s methods and thoughts.
CANCELED: La dolce vita
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1960The May 16 screening has been canceled. Learn more
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Film to Table dinner follows the January 26 screeningSaturday, May 16 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).
CANCELED: The Voice of the Moon
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1990All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
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Sunday, May 17 7 PMView DetailsFellini’s dreamy, almost Beckett-like story follows a young, moonstruck wanderer (Roberto Benigni) and his friend, a plump, aging actor, a Laurel and Hardy–like pair seeking to understand the meanings of life.
CANCELED: Nights of Cabiria
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1956All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
Digital Restoration
Thursday, May 21 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).