The great Italian director was born 100 years ago this month. What better time to stream his best work…
Federico Fellini celebrates his 100th birthday on 20 January – in an inactive sense, admittedly, given that he left us back in 1993. It’s a centenary worth noting. Thirty years on from his last film, Fellini still feels like the first name in Italian cinema, the one laymen can remember even if they’ve never seen a frame of his work, and the one whose imprint – or many imprints, given his wild directorial evolution from stark neorealism to baroque stylisation – is most visible in the contemporary work of compatriots from Paolo Sorrentino to Alice Rohrwacher.
The BFI is marking the milestone with a touring retrospective of Fellini’s work, though the BFI Player has some choice fare for those who can’t get to a cinema. The centrepiece of their selection, unsurprisingly, is La Dolce Vita,...
Federico Fellini celebrates his 100th birthday on 20 January – in an inactive sense, admittedly, given that he left us back in 1993. It’s a centenary worth noting. Thirty years on from his last film, Fellini still feels like the first name in Italian cinema, the one laymen can remember even if they’ve never seen a frame of his work, and the one whose imprint – or many imprints, given his wild directorial evolution from stark neorealism to baroque stylisation – is most visible in the contemporary work of compatriots from Paolo Sorrentino to Alice Rohrwacher.
The BFI is marking the milestone with a touring retrospective of Fellini’s work, though the BFI Player has some choice fare for those who can’t get to a cinema. The centrepiece of their selection, unsurprisingly, is La Dolce Vita,...
- 1/11/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
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