The life and cinema of Italian director Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (1920-1993) was one of the most imaginative and highly respected film makers of the 20th century. As an Italian and therefore a Hollywood outsider, his films were nonetheless nominated for 23 Academy Awards and won eight, and he was given a career achievement Oscar just before he died.
The extraordinary personal cinema he created over nearly 50 years, weaving the realities of daily life, dreams, fantasies and autobiography in stunningly creative images still astound us today.
This illustrated talk, by Patrick Hargood and Mike Jennings of the cinema’s Education Team, will explore this outstanding cinema magician’s life, career and major influences, from his early days in comics, radio and journalism, his long and happy marriage to the star of many of his films, Giulietta Masina, to his scriptwriting collaborations with Rossellini and others, to his early great films in the 1950s, and then his later period of worldwide fame as the director of classic films such as ‘8 ½’ (screening this season), ‘La Dolce Vita’, ‘Amarcord’, ‘Casanova’, ‘Ginger and Fred’ and others.
We will show many extracts from his films and reveal his extraordinary visual imagination, producing images and inferences that linger in the audience’s memories forever. A must for all cinema lovers.