![]() ![]() In the latter decades of the twentieth century, in some prominent critical circles, the phantasmagorias and fantasias upon which Fellini’s enormous reputation rested began to be esteemed less than the earlier, simpler 1950s films that preceded them. The increasing extravagance of Fellini’s work would lead to charges of self-indulgence. ![]() ![]() In the English-speaking world, few filmmakers were more synonymous with the international “art” cinema. By the mid 1960s, Fellini had attained worldwide fame - becoming a household name even among casual moviegoers and non-cinephiles, and spawning an adjective, Felliniesque - for an extraordinary series of free-wheeling, flamboyant, dazzlingly creative films rooted in memory, dream, desire, and fantasy. Fellini began directing his own features, rooted in neorealist aesthetics, in the early 1950s. He worked as a screenwriter and assistant director for Roberto Rossellini during the emergence of Italy’s influential neorealism movement in the 1940s. The Cinematheque continues its celebration, rudely interrupted by COVID, of the centennial of Federico Fellini, one of cinema’s boldest and most beloved maestros.įellini (1920–1993) was born in provincial Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic coast, and grew up under Italian fascism.
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