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Director Federico Fellini's first color film is this dazzling, surrealistic portrait of sexual fantasies and neuroses. Stuck in an unhappy marriage, a beautiful woman becomes unable to cope with the reality of her life. Losing herself, she embarks on a hallucinatory journey to the world inside her own mind where she begins to discover the truth about her own needs and desires. Giulietta Masina, Mario Pisu, Sylva Koscina star. 137 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: Italian Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; interview; theatrical trailer. In Italian with English subtitles.
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Italian humanist director Federico Fellini was among the most intensely autobiographical film directors the cinema has known. "If I were to make a film about the life of a soul", said Fellini, "it would end up being about me." Born in Rimini, a resort city on the Adriatic, Fellini was fascinated by the circuses and vaudeville performers that his town attracted. His education in Catholic schools ... profoundly affected his later work, which, while critical of the Church, is infused with a strong spiritual dimension. After jobs as a crime reporter and an artist specializing in caricature, Fellini began his film career as a gag writer for actor Aldo Fabrizi.
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Federico Fellini, a canonical name of personal expression and artistic fantasy in the cinema, had no formal technical training in his profession. Born in the seaside town of Rimini in Italy in 1920, he quit the provinces for Rome at age 18. Enrolled in law school, he abandoned the degree. He never considered attending Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, whose graduates he would later collaborate with. And unlike his contemporaries, he never frequented the cinema clubs that screened the best Italian directors' films and international titles from France, Germany and Russia. When pressed for his influences, Fellini preferred Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx brothers, Pietro Germi, and Buñuel (with his black humor) to "cine-club" names such as Dreyer, Griffith and Eisenstein.
Federico Fellini's first directorial effort (with Alberto Lattuada) has all the familiar emblems of his private mythology--a tawdry circus, provincial villages and an attraction for the grotesque. A talented dancer charms a rundown travelling show before moving on to classier arenas. Carla Del Poggio, Peppino De Filippo, Giulietta Masina star. 93 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Italian Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English. In Italian with English subtitles.
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Federico Fellini (1920-1993), Italian film director, noted for such films as La Strada (1954) and 8-1/2 (1963). He was born in Rimini. In 1938 he left his birthplace for Florence and Rome, where he worked as a writer and cartoonist and toured with a theater company. One of his first significant film ventures was a collaboration with the Italian film director Roberto Rossellini on the script of Open City (1945). Fellini then worked as a screenwriter and assistant director on several films before codirecting Variety Lights (1951) with Alberto Lattuada. He then directed The White Sheik (1952).
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Federico Fellini is perhaps the most important film maker of all time. One can not speak of Italian cinema, let alone, world film, without at the very least mentioning Fellini. His influence is far reaching, beyond even the scope of film. The very well known, and used, term paparazzi exists thanks to one of his characters in his breakthrough film, La Dolce Vita, which won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1960. Directors around the world, even Hollywood, point to Fellini as a source of artistic inspiration and tribute scenes abound. The opening scene, for example, of Falling Down, is a replica of the opening scene in Fellini's 8 ½.
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