Film - Feature | January 23 | 7 p.m. | BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND
PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE Sponsor: BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM
ARCHIVE In AMARCORD FELLINI CALLS ON THE FREE-spirited fantasies of
his later films, as well as the bittersweet comedy and intimate sense
of detail of the early ones, to evoke a year in the life of this the
small Italian coastal town of Rimini in the mid-1930s. AMARCORD IS
FILLED WITH PHANTASMAGORICAL GEMS FROM THE DIRECTORS IMAGINATION. But
the film is also rooted in history, filtered through memory: focusing
on one family of perfectly normal eccentrics, Fellini examines their
impact on one anothers lives and the impact of life on them through a
series of interacting tales. Fascism was a fact of life and, for
Fellini, a focal point around which to examine the community, the
Church, the state, and the familyall of the elements that made
Mussolinis acceptance possible. Like his protagonist Titta, in this
film Fellini looks to the past for the source of our illusions, our
innocence and our feelings. But for Fellini, it is also a catharsis: I
made AMARCORD TO FINISH WITH YOUTH AND TENDERNESS, he said. Event
contact: CA, bampfapress@berkeley.edu , 5106420808 Categories: Film
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