Amarcord (1973), directed by Federico Fellini, is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale that combines poignancy with bawdy comedy. It tells the story of a wild cast of characters in Fellini's home town of Rimini in 1930s Fascist pre-World War II...
Anarcord (1973) 1.85:1 (16x9 Enhanced) Dolby Digital 1.0 The Criterion Collection, $39.95 In the pantheon of great international cinematographers, it's hard to think of many more diverse or accomplished than Giuseppe Rotunno, ASC, AIC. From the stark black-and-white of Hocco and His Brothers...
Directed by Federico Fellini; a digital video disk (DVD) from The Criterion Collection, Home Vision Cinema, and Janus Films; 1974, color, 127 mine. Distributed by Image Entertainment, 9333 Oso Ave., Chatsworth, CA 91811, phone (818) 407-9100. It has now been twenty-five years since...
Everyone remembers the blowhard on the movie line in Annie Hall. But almost nobody remembers that some of what he says is right. “We saw the Fellini film,” he begins, and forget the blather about La Strada being a great film for its use of...
Everyone remembers the blowhard on the movie line in Annie Hall. But almost nobody remembers that some of what he says is right. “We saw the Fellini film,” he begins, and forget the blather about La Strada being a great film for its use...
Compared with [Fellini's] other recent films, Amarcord is simple and classic to the point of self-denial. It resolves itself into a succession of scenes from provincial life, strung loosely round the experiences of Bobo, the representative of Fellini in the film, during the summer of 1935, aged about 15-16. In a sense, the film consists of nothing but set-pieces, but hardly anything is played up to the pitch of frenzy which usually seizes a Fellini film somewhere along the way. This seems to be very ...
[The] worst thing about "Amarcord" and its immediate predecessors is that the chief joke is human ugliness. Whether it is obese women displaying their behinds on bicycles, a ridiculous-looking uncle (another one) making himself more obviously repugnant by sporting a hairnet, a female Goliath using her naked bosom as a weapon, a family dinner scene in which almost all the faces, even those of the youngsters, are profoundly unprepossessing,… the joke is always on humanity, and almost alwa...
