AUGUST 25, 28 & 29
Confronting the Past: Italian Film Classics of the 1970s
Director: Frederico Fellini
Writers: Frederico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
Cast: Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio
Amarcord" means “I remember” in the dialect of Rimini, the seaside town of [Fellini's] youth, but these are memories of memories, transformed by affection and fantasy and much improved in the telling. Here he gathers the legends of his youth, where all of the characters are at once larger and smaller than life -- flamboyant players on their own stages.
At the center is an overgrown young adolescent, the son of a large, loud family, who is dizzied by the life churning all around him -- the girls he idealizes, the tarts he lusts for, the rituals of the village year, the practical jokes he likes to play, the meals that always end in drama, the church’s thrilling opportunities for sin and redemption, and the vaudeville of Italy itself -- the transient glories of grand hotels and great ocean liners, the play-acting of Mussolini’s fascist costume party." - Roger Ebert, 2004
2hrs 3mins / R
"If ever there was a movie made entirely out of nostalgia and joy, by a filmmaker at the heedless height of his powers, that movie is Federico Fellini’s Amarcord." - Roger Ebert