“Il cinema non ha bisogno della grande idea, degli amori infiammati, degli sdegni: ti impone un solo obbligo quotidiano, quello di fare.”
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Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. Recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films rank highly in critical polls such as that of Cahiers du Cinéma and Sight & Sound, which lists his 1963 film 8½ as the 10th-greatest film of all time.
entertainment · Italian filmmaker (1920–1993) · also Federico Fellini, Fellini
Born 20 January 1920 · Died 31 October 1993 · Q7371
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“Il cinema è il modo più diretto di entrare in competizione con Dio.”
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“Il cinema è come una vecchia puttana, come il circo e il varietà, e sa come dare molte forme di piacere.”
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“Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can’t teach old fleas new dogs.”
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“overidealized concepts of life.”
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“on which our minds live: the past, the present, and the conditional — the realm of fantasy”
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Hacerse la crítica: CASANOVA (1976) DE FEDERICO FELLINI
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La Voz de Galicia: La «dolce» vida de Fellini, el conspiranoico Gibson y Loles como la suegra de Segura
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: La strada | Nino Rota, Fellini, 1954
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Far Out Magazine: Roger McGuinn picks the 1966 album that perfectly captures an acid trip: “Like a Fellini film”
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The Guardian: Italian actor Sandra Milo, star of Federico Fellini’s 8½, dies aged 90
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The Guardian: La Strada review – Fellini’s circus becomes a heartfelt ballet
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The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps performed their program Felliniesque, a show inspired by the works and life of Fellini
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Variety announced that French director Sylvain Chomet was moving forward with The Thousand Miles, a project based on various Fellini works, including his unpublished drawings and writings
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Total Film magazine ranked Fellini at No
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MovieMaker ranked Fellini No
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Entertainment Weekly ranked Fellini tenth on its "50 Greatest Directors" list
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According to reports, when Fellini died in 1993, he was in communion with the Catholic Church.
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Was in communion with the Catholic Church
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As a graphic novel with artwork by Milo Manara and as Trip to Tulum in America in 1990
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The first major exhibition of 63 drawings by Fellini was held in Paris, Brussels, and the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York
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He preferred to move within the world of the moderate left, and voted for the Italian Republican Party (PRI) of his friend Ugo La Malfa as well as the reformist socialists of Pietro Nenni, another friend of his, and voted only once for the Christian Democracy party (Democrazia Cristiana, DC) in 1976 to keep the Communists out of power.
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Fellini took LSD under the supervision of Emilio Servadio, his psychoanalyst during the 1954 production of La Strada
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To name his ten favorite films, he ranked I Vitelloni number one
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Two times the Moscow International Film Festival in 1963 and 1987, and the Career Golden Lion at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival in 1985
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An independent film company, for Fellini and production manager Clemente Fracassi to discover and produce new talent
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I Vitelloni found favour with the critics and public
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Fellini co-produced and co-directed with Alberto Lattuada Variety Lights (Luci del varietà), his first feature film
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And based on the fotoromanzi, the photographed cartoon strip romances popular in Italy at the time
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Fellini and Sergio Amidei received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of Rome, Open City
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Fellini was entrusted to film the Sicilian scenes in Maiori
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Published Il mio amico Pasqualino, a 74-page booklet in ten chapters describing the absurd adventures of Pasqualino, an alter ego
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With present-day footage of himself at work on a screen adaptation of Franz Kafka's Amerika
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Where he published his first cartoon in the weekly 420
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Fellini opened Febo, a portrait shop in Rimini, with the painter Demos Bonini
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The year of the maiden voyage of the transatlantic ocean liner SS Rex (which is shown in Amarcord)
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Made friends with Luigi Titta Benzi, later a prominent Rimini lawyer (and the model for young Titta in Amarcord (1973))
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Discovered the world of Grand Guignol, the circus with Pierino the Clown and the movies
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Fellini began primary school at an institute run by the nuns of San Vincenzo in Rimini, later attending the Carlo Tonini public school two years afterward
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With the religious ceremony held at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome a year later
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To live at his parents' home in Gambettola
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As a baker apprenticed to the Pantanella pasta factory
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