Word: amarcord
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...Dolce Vita (1960), 8 1/2 (1963), Amarcord (1974) and 20 other films, overripe images spilled out of his cornucopia: clowns and courtesans, prelates and zealots, overripe creatures from a fantast's bestiary. At first they looked like outrageous cartoons of sensuality and sacrilege. But long before his death last week at 73, from complications after a stroke, it was clear they were previews of a moral system spun wildly off its axis. For 30 years and more, the word Felliniesque has defined not just the director's work but a style at the peacock end of film, photography, fashion, advertising...
...Fellini really did run away to join a traveling circus. He was sent home within a few days, but his heart stayed there. In a Fellini film, life is a circus without surcease. Come inside, children of all ages, where (in Amarcord) the snowflakes are as fat as pancakes, where (in The Nights of Cabiria, 1957) streetwalkers dance like schoolgirls and (in Juliet of the Spirits (1965), God may be waiting for you in the attic...
Nuala Ni Chanainn (violin) -- She plays baroque music every other week with Brian Clague (violin), usually on Tuesday. They prefer to play inside the Coop. Originally from Ireland, Chanainn, who still speaks with a pronounced Irish accent, also plays folk music with a group called Amarcord (2 violins, accordion). Clague says he plays because "there's a feeling of putting something into the world that's good...
...Amarcord (1974). Federico Fellini's festive, nostalgic return to the small town of his youth...
...Curtis Institute. Returning to Italy two years later, he continued writing operas (The Italian Straw Hat), symphonies and chamber works during his next 45 years, but achieved his greatest success scoring such films as Fellini's La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½(1963) and Amarcord(1915), as well as Francis Ford Coppola's two Godfather films. Prolific and inventive, Rota often wrote his scores before the director began shooting. Said he: "Music does not need to be hard to understand to be good. It should relax and entertain the audience -not torture them...