Our Fellini tribute is complemented by an In Focus lecture/screening series. Italian director Federico Fellini, wearing a suit and holding sunglasses, portrayed among the actress Valentina Cortese and his wife Giulietta Masina in front. Essential to his success were actors Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina, who was also his spouse for fifty years and musician Nino Rota, who composed unforgettable scores for many of the films.
Fellini soon emerged as a director in his own right, and elected to break with conventional approaches to production, creating a boldly realized body of work that speaks to generational change and to the imagination. After an early job as a caricature artist and writer for a humor magazine, by the mid-1940s he was writing screenplays and working as an assistant director with Roberto Rossellini (we present three of their collaborations: Open City, Paisan, and The Flowers of St.
With so many classics to his name, including his masterpiece 8 1/2 (1963), which covers subject matter that is often thought to be impossible to do well, making a film, the flamboyant director has become one of the most celebrated. The young Fellini was far more interested in drawing, puppetry, the circus, and the movies than in academic pursuits. Federico Fellini as Auteur: Seven Aspects of His Films offers a comprehensive auteurist study of the renowned Italian director. The term 'master filmmaker' gets thrown around quite a bit, but I can say without hyperbole that Italian director Federico Fellini is in fact a master filmmaker. A hundred years after his birth, Fellini’s films still enthrall with their baroque flamboyance, emotional resonance, and grand visual design. A central figure in the international art cinema movement that took off in the mid-1950s, he earned some of film’s highest honors, winning Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for La strada, Nights of Cabiria, 8 1/2, and Amarcord, and the Palme d’Or at Cannes for La dolce vita. They came in low over a Roman galleon that rocked in the surf. Rome ultimately became the second home of the film director. Our art galleries and cafe will be inaccessible during this period, and our film screenings, tours, and public programs have been temporarily discontinued.įederico Fellini (1920–1993) was a masterful artist of memory, dreams, fantasy, and desire. ROME - Not far away, the big jets were landing at Rome airport. Federico Fellini, born in Rimini on the Adriatic Coast on January 20, 1920, did not want to leave his homeland. BAMPFA has made the difficult but necessary decision to close the museum until further notice.