Federico Fellini
The greatest Italian film director of all time. Circa 1950s and 1960s (mostly).
Dreams, Memory, Fantasy, Desire.
Carl Jung, Archetypes, Nostalgia, Metaphor.
Unconscious, Anima, Animus.
Baroque imagery, Idiosyncrasy, Stylized direction.
Sacred, Profane, Art, Influence.
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
Choose your level of participation:
Federico Fellini: “Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.”
Here are a few things to listen to, watch and/or read as we prepare:
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Watch his masterpiece close to the night we gather:
8 ½ - 1963 (HBO)
Watch these 5 over the next 2 months:
La Dolce Vita - 1960 (Filmbox free trial)
La Strada (“The Road”) - 1954 (HBO)
I Vitelloni - 1953 (HBO)
Nights of Cabiria - 1957 (Amazon to rent)
I Remember (“Amarcord”) - 1973 (HBO)
Then watch these 3 deeper cuts if you have time:
Juliet of the Spirits - 1965 (HBO)
The Ship Sails On - 1983
Il Bidone - 1955 (Freevee with ads)
“Anyone who lives, as I do, in a world of imagination must make an enormous and unnatural effect to be factual in the ordinary sense. I confess I would be a terrible witness in court because of this--and a terrible journalist. I feel compelled to a story the way I see it and this is seldom the way it happened, in all its documentary detail.”
— Federico Fellini