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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.
Jun 18, 2024 · Federico Fellini, Italian film director who was one of the most celebrated and singular filmmakers of the period after World War II. His distinctive methods superimposed dreamlike or hallucinatory imagery upon ordinary situations in such movies as La strada, La dolce vita, and Juliet of the Spirits.
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Nov 12, 2018 · By the time of his death in 1993, Federico Fellini had won four best foreign language film Oscars, tying him with his countryman Vittorio De Sica for the most wins by any director.
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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 2, 2016 · 1. Referring to life as a circus. This playful approach towards daily rituals and routines has turned to a recognizable specification of Italian cinema.
Jan 17, 2020 · A hundred years ago, on January 20, 1920, Federico Fellini was born in the Italian town of Rimini, on the Adriatic coast. The time and the place matter more than anything else, as we approach him...
Dec 23, 2019 · Although he’d become best-known for his extravagant style, Fellini cut his teeth in the neorealist era of the 1940s and 50s, when Italian filmmakers broke new ground for realism on screen, taking their camera onto the streets to document the social realities of life after the Second World War.
