Fellini
January-February 2020
Enjoy the start of a two-month season on one of world cinema’s most exuberantly playful filmmakers.
Introduction by season programmer Pasquale Iannone
February screenings
Part two of our season of Fellini film screenings
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8½
The varied troubles of a celebrated filmmaker are laid bare in Fellini’s reflexive classic.
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Juliet of the Spirits
Giulietta Masina makes a glorious return in Fellini’s first Technicolor feature.
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The Clowns
An affectionate exploration of the history, art and craft of the clown.
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Fellini’s Roma
Fellini’s inventive city symphony spans 40 years of 20th-century Roman history.
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Amarcord
Fellini taps into his childhood memories growing up in Rimini in the 1930s.
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And the Ship Sails On
Fellini takes us on a dream-like sea journey in the 1910s.
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Intervista
Another cinematic self-portrait, celebrating the film studios where Fellini made his name.
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Il Bidone
A trio of itinerant conmen roam the landscape of postwar Italy.
Introductions, talks and events
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Roundtable: Gender and sexuality in Federico Fellini’s cinema
We welcome film scholars and writers to the stage for this insightful debate.
Episodic Fellini
Fellini embraces the short form
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Episodic Fellini
Fellini fully embraces the short form in three episodes from omnibus films.
BFI Course
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The Imaginarium of Federico Fellini
Join us for a five-week illustrated course taking in Fellini’s recurrent themes and concerns, but also less familiar perspectives on his work.
Introduction
February (Part 2)
“My fantasies and obsessions are not only my reality, but the stuff of which my films are made”
Federico Fellini
We round off our two-month centenary celebration of the renowned Italian filmmaker with a special focus on aspects of his work he’s arguably most famous for – the world of dreams and autobiography. These films span almost 35 years in the director’s career and include some of his best-known pictures, including the seminal film-about-film 8½ and the Oscar®-winning Amarcord. Fellini himself is a compelling presence in front of the camera, most memorably in The Clowns, Roma and Intervista, where the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction become ever more fluid. We also include Il Bidone and a programme of the director’s contributions to anthology films – little jewels offering further proof of Fellini’s fleet-flooted imagination.
Pasquale Iannone
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Alongside the release of La dolce vita, cinemas across the UK and Ireland will screen a selection of Fellini films.
CULTURAL PARTNERS
This retrospective is the first of the Fellini 100 official international tour, coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture, led by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, who have provided the films. All films have been digitally restored by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, Cineteca di Bologna and Cineteca Nazionale.
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