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Apr 30, 2024 · Federico Fellini (born January 20, 1920, Rimini, Italy—died October 31, 1993, Rome) was an Italian film director who was one of the most celebrated and singular filmmakers of the period after World War II. Influenced early in his career by the Neorealist movement, he developed his own distinctive methods that superimposed dreamlike or ...
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Federico Fellini Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (Italian: [fedeˈriːko felˈliːni]; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness.
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- 8½ (1963) 8½ is Fellini’s magnum opus, there can be no doubt about this. One of the finest examples of a film about a film, it has the most striking opening sequence in the history of cinema.
- La Dolce Vita (1960) Arguably Fellini’s greatest filmmaking success, La Dolce Vita stars Marcello Mastroianni as a gossip columnist who embarks on a remarkable odyssey in search of fulfilment while navigating the pleasures that Rome has to offer.
- Amarcord (1973) Inspired by the director’s youth, Amarcord is set in the 1930s Italy under the fascist rule and explores the nature of life in a coastal town.
- La Strada (1954) La Strada is one of Fellini’s most well-known films and for good reason. It is a mythological work of art, Fellini’s attempt to make sense of his own identity through the cinematic medium.
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- 'Nights of Cabiria' (1957) IMDb Rating: 8.1/10. Nights of Cabiria might be Federico Fellini's most emotional movie and understandably sits as his highest-rated on IMDb.
- '8½' (1963) IMDb Rating: 8.0/10. 8½ proves to be even more semi-autobiographical than Amarcord, though the fact it's largely set during the 1960s (with some surreal flashbacks) does make it a little less nostalgic.
- 'La Dolce Vita' (1960) IMDb Rating: 8.0/10. Besides the anthology film Boccaccio ’70 (which had several directors), La Dolce Vita is Federico Fellini's longest and most sprawling film.
- 'La Strada' (1954) IMDb Rating: 8.0/10. Another Federico Fellini movie that deals with realism over nostalgia, dreams, and memories, La Strada, is one of the great director's grimmest efforts.
Nov 18, 2022 · The White Sheik was Fellini’s first film. Although it doesn’t convey the struggles of the working class, the overarching theme of idealism versus realism is the reason it’s considered a Neorealist film. The plot follows a couple who have separate dreams that they obsess over, both being completely different and secret from the other.
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Fellini’s first solo-directed film was The White Sheik(1952). Starring Alberto Sordi, the film is a revised version of a treatment first written by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1949 and based on the fotoromanzi, the very popular photographed cartoon strip romance magazines published in Italy at the time.
Jan 17, 2020 · Routinely ranked as one of the 10 greatest films of all time, 8½ marked Fellini's peak. It transformed him into the very embodiment of the movie director — countless filmmakers wanted to be him.
