1.20.2014

Federico Fellini


    
Federico Fellini
 January 20, 1920 - October 31, 1993

Federico Fellini was an inspiring Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century.  He won five Academy Awards including the most number of Oscars in history for Best Foreign Language Film.


(1963)
La Dolce Vita (1960)


Fellini is best known for his films-  (1963) and La Dolce Vita (1960).
I personally enjoy his La strada (1954), and Juliet of the Spirits (1965) - which both star Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina.  As well as Amarcord (1973), Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976) and Satyricon (1969).


Fellini and Masina shooting La Strada (1954)
La Strada (1954)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

Nights of Cabiria (1957) was a particularly touching movie about a doomed prostitute who wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love, again starring Giulietta Masina.

Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria (1957)



 "It is not memory that dominates my films. To say that my films are autobiographical is an overly facile liquidation, a hasty classification. It seems to me that I have invented almost everything: childhood, character, nostalgias, dreams, memories, for the pleasure of being able to recount them." -FF

Amarcord (1973)
Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976)
Roma (1972)
Intervista (1987)


As he saw it, the clown "was always the caricature of a well-established, ordered, peaceful society. But today all is temporary, disordered, grotesque. Who can still laugh at clowns?... All the world plays a clown now."- FF




Federico Fellini


“The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. ”- Frederico Fellini


Federico Fellini