"Amarcord" by Federico Fellini

Cinema

BAMPFA features a screening of one of Federico Fellini's most celebrated works, Amarcord, in which he evokes a year in the life of the small Italian coastal town of Rimini in the mid-1930s with free-spirited fantasy, bittersweet comedy, and intimate detail.
Though filled with phantasmagorical gems from the director's imagination, the film is also rooted in history, filtered through memory: focusing on one family of perfectly normal eccentrics, Fellini examines their impact on one another's lives and the impact of life on them through a series of intersecting tales.

“I think that the characters in Amarcord, the characters in this small village, just because they are like that, restricted in that small area, and that small village is a place that I knew well, and those characters –invented or known- anyway I knew and invented them well, I think that suddenly they become no longer yours, but also of others”
(Federico Fellini about the success of Amarcord)
from 23/04/2017 to 23/04/2017 hour 19.00
Amarcord
Directed by Federico Fellini
Screenplay: Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno
Edited by: Ruggero Mastroianni
Special effects: Adriano Pischiutta
Music: Nino Rota
Set design and costumes: Danilo Donati
Italy, 1937

Oscar for Best Foreign Film
Oscar nomination for Best Director
Oscar nomination for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
New York Film Critics Award for Best Direction
New York Film Critics Award for Best Motion Picture
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