Amarcord | schedule
Described by Los Angeles Times critic Kevin Thomas as “a ravishing memory film in which reminiscence, rumor, legend, local history and male sexual fantasies flow into one another with the ease and grace for which Federico Fellini was justly famous,” Amarcord (dialect for ‘mi ricordo,’ or ‘I remember’) is a carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period. An art house smash hit and winner of numerous awards – including the 1975 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film – Fellini’s most personal film satirizes even as it elegizes his youth, through “some of the most lyrical imagery the maestro ever concocted” (David Fear, Time Out New York), all set to Nino Rota’s gorgeous, nostalgia-tinged score. Cinematheque Waterloo is proud to present this enduring classic in a new restored print from Janus Films, personally supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno. -Russell Kilbourn
Described by Los Angeles Times critic Kevin Thomas as “a ravishing memory film in which reminiscence, rumor, legend, local history and male sexual fantasies flow into one another with the ease and grace for which Federico Fellini was justly famous,” Amarcord (dialect for ‘mi ricordo,’ or ‘I remember’) is a carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period. An art house smash hit and winner of numerous awards – including the 1975 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film – Fellini’s most personal film satirizes even as it elegizes his youth, through “some of the most lyrical imagery the maestro ever concocted” (David Fear, Time Out New York), all set to Nino Rota’s gorgeous, nostalgia-tinged score. Cinematheque Waterloo is proud to present this enduring classic in a new restored print from Janus Films, personally supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno. -Russell Kilbourn