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Federico Fellini is undoubtedly one of the greatest Italian artists characterizing the Italian cinema industry. His masterpieces are marked by a unique mixture of oneiric and autobiographical traits within a framework characterized by fantasy and a deep sense of anxiety. Fellini was an excellent Italian director able to grasp the quintessence of It...

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A new digital restoration of Federico Fellini's La Strada, 60 years after it won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, reminds us why it won over critics and audiences, writes Danielle Hipkins, an academic specializing in Italian language and film. Film buffs will have noted the recent death of the great scholar of Italian cinema, Peter Bondanel...

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When in 1993 Federico Fellini comes up on the stage of the Academy Awards for the last time, he is beautifully honored by the America of movies and dreams, engaged and grateful for the career of one of the greatest filmmakers ever, a source of inspiration for American masters like Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese.

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By Dalna Gualtieri 20 years after his death, 40 after "Amarcord" was realized, 50 after "8 ½" and 60 after "I vitelloni". His bright life has continued to spread through the years, and the multimedia symphony concert held in his honour, is its proof. More than 50 italo-americans musicians at the Royce Hall in Los Angeles, directed by Daniele Bela...

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Thursday, August 7th @ 8 PM - Summer Italian Film Festival Week 5 - Otto e Mezzo (1963)This classic Fellini film stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous film director. Guido Anselmi is suffering from the dreaded "directors block" while working on a science fiction film with autobiographical references.   As Guido stru...

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by Victoria Guerra   Over twenty years after he passed away in 1993, Federico Fellini is still considered one of the best film directors of all time, and a few of his films have remained classics for decades, including arguably his most iconic movie, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Eckberg - and now, the "La Dolce Vita" remake is a r...

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di Chiara Zaccherotti   Se a Ray Charles bastava una vecchia canzone per farsi tornare in mente la dolce Georgia, le suggestioni che si scatenano con "l'artigiano che non ha niente da dire, ma che sa come dirlo" sono innumerevoli e ancora oggi vive in tutto il mondo.   Federico on my Mind è il titolo della mostra con cui, nell'ambito...

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Fellini paints a portrait of Rome and of his relationship with the city in a documentary/fantasy.   A fluid, unconnected procession of scenes detail the arrival of the young Fellini in the capital and illustrate, even grotesquely, the Rome of today and yesterday. Free and open to the public.   Read more   Source: http://ww...

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In its heyday, Cinecitta was the land of Federico Fellini, who shot all of his films in its studios and claimed he was never more at home than in Studio 5. Charlton Heston, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Hayward, Robert Taylor and Kirk Douglas shot popular sword-and-sandal films in the studios. Women like Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Monica Vitti rose t...

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by Alessia Gargiulo   The cinematographic era of Italian Neorealism marked a revolutionary turning point. Director Otto Preminger said that the history of cinema is divided into two parts, before Rome Open City, and after it.    A new language was created by a handful of directors and screenwriters in Italy in the immediate post-...

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