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Federico Fellini was born of middle-class family on the rocky Adriatic coast of Rimini. At the age of 12 he ran away from home to join a traveling circus and in following years supported himself as a minor stage actor, newspaper cartoonist, and radio scriptwriter. Shortly after his marriage to actress Giulietta Masina, who would later play important roles in several of his major films, Fellini was asked by the noted actor and director Aldo Fabrizi to collaborate with him on several motion picture scenarios.
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Italian movie director Federico Fellini is regarded as a legend in the motion picture industry. Fellini believes that movies should contain some amount of symbolism in order to arouse the imagination of the audience.
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Federico Fellini's masterpiece centers on Marcello Mastroianni, a filmmaker overwhelmed by personal and career problems, who checks into a health spa in hopes of reinvigorating himself. But memories of his recent past and his childhood, troublesome producers and agents, and his lust for women keep getting in the way of his rehabilitation. Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee, Barbara Steele, and Sandra Milo ... star. 138 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: Italian Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; theatrical trailer; bonus film "Fellini: A Director's Notebook"; documentary; interviews; photo gallery. In Italian with English subtitles. Two-disc set.
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Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini's alter ego Guido Anselmi, a film director overwhelmed by the large-scale production he has undertaken. He finds himself harangued by producers, his wife, and his mistress while he struggles to find the inspiration to finish his film. The stress plunges Guido into an interior world where fantasy and memory impinge on reality. Fellini jumbles narrative logic by freely cutting from flashbacks to dream sequences to the present until it becomes impossible to pry them apart, creating both a psychological portrait of Guido's interior world and the surrealistic, circus-like exterior world that came to be known as "Felliniesque." 8 1/2 won an Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, as well as the grand prize at the Moscow Film Festival, and was one of the most influential and commercially successful European art movies of the 1960s, inspiring such later films as Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979), Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), and even Lucio Fulci's Italian splatter film Un Gatto nel Cervello (1990).
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From unlikely beginnings as a cartoonist, radio scriptwriter and minor stage actor, Federico Fellini would join the pantheon of great twentieth century directors alongside Bergman, Kurosawa, Ford, Renoir, and Godard. Little in his early career suggested he was the man who would introduce the world to La Dolce Vita. But in 1960 he did just that, and three years later he followed up with the groundbreaking 8½. Movies would never be the same again.
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That Federico Fellini’s films are based mainly on memories of his childhood and youth in Rimini is a well-known fact. The Maestro has always had close links to the city where he was born to the extent that it was his wish to rest here forever after his death. In fact, the tomb that Arnaldo Pomodoro designed for him and Giulietta Masina, the bow of a boat pointing towards heaven that recalls the legendary Rex in Amarcord, stands at the entrance to the city’s cemetery. Rimini has dedicated a study foundation to Federico Fellini (at 1 Via Oberdan in his sister Maddalena’s house), which houses the director’s personal library as well as all kinds of other material including a remarkable number of drawings of Fellini himself. A museum dedicated to Fellini will be inaugurated here in 2003 (tel. 0541 50303).
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