Word: fellini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMARCORD. A great movie. Federico Fellini's autobiographical fantasy about growing up in the seaside town of Rimini is lavish, pungent, full to bursting with the kind of encompassing, consuming affection for people that is the property of the true poet...
Dovzhenko's Earth and Rosselini's The Miracle, with Anna Magnani and Frederico Fellini, Sunday...
Some years ago, Fellini remarked that "in the hands of traditional film makers, the cinema has become a form of art which allows no space for meditation." Like other great directors, Fellini, now 54, has shown other, younger film makers the possibility of finding such a space. It has been argued that Fellini has spent too much time in this space, resifting the same phantoms of personal history and illusion. This has been said as well, and predictably, about Amarcord. What is so different, and so significant, is a whole new strengthening of tone and depth of feeling, the exhilaration...
...With every movie," says Fellini, "I revisit my life as a fantasy of the past...
...latest film draws not only on his youth but also on Europe's turbulent prewar years. In an interview with TIME'S Erik Amfitheatrof in his Rome office, Fellini unreeled an intensely personal vision of his work and his times...