Federico Fellini
5) Amarcord
Author
Series
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
Italiano
Description
A 1973 comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano (situated near the ancient walls of Rimini) in 1930s Fascist Italy. The film's title is a univerbation of the Romagnol phrase a m'arcôrd ("I remember"). The title then became a neologism of the Italian language, with the meaning of "nostalgic revocation"....
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
This major artistic biography of Federico Fellini shows how his exuberant imagination has been shaped by popular culture, literature, and his encounter with the ideas of Carl Jung, especially Jungian dream interpretation. Covering Fellini's entire career, the book links his mature accomplishments to his first employment as a cartoonist, gagman, and sketch-artist during the Fascist era and his development as a leading neorealist scriptwriter. Peter...
9) La strada
Series
Criterion collection ; 219
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Italiano
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
10) Amarcord
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Italiano
Description
"In this movie Fellini portrays his home town of Rimini as he remembered it in the 1930's, during his young days. Many bizarre but very warm and human characters and specific Mediterranean humor made this movie the most popular of all Fellini's works" --Internet Movie Database.
11) Notti di Cabiria
Series
Criterion collection ; 49
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Italiano
Description
A young prostitute who works in the streets of Rome is continually deceived by men who claim to love her.
Series
Criterion collection ; 149
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Italiano
Description
A bored middle-aged woman finds she can conjure up spirits who lead her into a life of sensual gratification.
13) 8 1/2
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
Italiano
Description
A newly restored print of Fellini's directorial debut. The film features the director's wife and frequent collaborator, Giulietta Masina, and it introduces Fellini's affection for carnivalesque characters and the variety show, both of which influenced much of his later work. The movie features the onstage and backstage antics of a provincial troupe of lovably inept vaudeville performers travelling laboriously from one small town to another for little...
15) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection ; 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Italiano
Description
Disc one contains Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making of film as well as an audio essay by Gideon Bachmann and Antonio Monda, an introduction by Terry Gilliam, and the theatrical trailer. Disc two features Fellini's rarely seen first film for television, an imagined documentary, as well as a documentary about Nino Rota, the maestro behind the music of Fellini's films, interviews,...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini recreates the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome and its lack of concern with human dignity and obsession with perverse sex. The film is also an allegorical satire of the self-indulgence of modern society.
17) I vitelloni
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
This film compassionately details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to find meaning in their lives.
18) I Vitelloni
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Italiano
Description
Character study of five aimless young men living in a small Italian town, based in part upon Fellini's own experiences and those of his acquaintances.
