Cineaste, December 22nd, 1998
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 the release of the film most regard as Federico Fellini's last masterpiece. Amarcord is a funny and sentimental but ambivalent evocation of provincial Italy in the 1930s, with appeal, meaning, and importance which largely exist on two interrelated levels: one, an over-the-top mixture of the nostalgic (Amarcord mean...
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