Screening of three multi-awarded masterpeices by Federico Fellini
Remembering Federico Fellini on the 20th anniversary of his demise with the screening of three multi-awarded masterpieces
IIC Members ONLY
RICORDANDO FELLINI
(Remembering Fellini)
Remembering Federico Fellini on the 20th anniversary of his demise with the screening of three multi-awarded masterpieces
– 14.11.2013 – 8 ½
– 21.11.2013 – Amarcord
– 28.11.2013 – E la nave va (And the ship sails on)
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IIC Members ONLY
14.11.2013 at 6.30pm – Italian Institute of Culture
8 ½
Directed by Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk.
Running time: 139 minutes
Year: 1963
Italian, English subtitles
Guido Anselmi, an Italian director who has lost all inspiration for his upcoming movie, and it’s too late to back out. Aside from the fact that he can not make the film, his mistress, wife, producer, and all the rest of his friends, are pressuring him about one thing or another. He retreats into his dreams to shelter himself from the pressure, and there, he finds inspiration for his new film, and to face the world. Fellini’s autobiographical film about the trials and tribulations of film making.
AWARDS
· Academy Awards (USA): Oscars for Best Foreign Film, Best Costume Design
· Bodil Awards (Denmark) Best Foreign Film.
· Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists: Silver Ribbon for Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Original Story, Best Producer, Best Score, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress.
· Kinema Junpo Awards (Japan) Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Director
· Moscow International Film Festival: Grand Prix Award for Best Director.
· National Board of Review (USA): NBR Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
· New York Film Critics Circle Award: NYFCC Award for Best Foreign Film.
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IIC Members ONLY
21.11.2013 at 6.30pm – Italian Institute of Culture
Amarcord
Directed by Federico Fellini
Cast: Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noel
Running time: 94 minutes
Year: 1973
Italian, English subtitles
A year in the life of a small Italian coastal town in the nineteen-thirties, as is recalled by a director with a superstar’s access to the resources of the Italian film industry and a piper’s command over our imaginations. Federico Fellini’s film combines the free form and make-believe splendour with the comic, bittersweet feeling for character and narrative we remember from some of his best films of the 1950s. The town in the film is based on Rimini, where Mr. Fellini grew up (Amarcord means “I remember” in the Rimini dialect).. Yet there is now something magical, larger-than-life about the town, its citizens and many of the things that happen to them.
AWARDS
· Academy Awards (USA) Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
· Bodil Awards (Denmark) Bodil for Best European Film.
· Cinema Writers Circle Awards (Spain) CEC Award for Best Foreign Film.
· David di Donatello Awards (Italy) David Awards for Best Director and for Best Film
· French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, Critics Award for Best Foreign Film.
· Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, Silver Ribbon Award for Best Director, Best New Actor and Best Story.
· Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award (USA) KCFCC Award for Best Foreign Film.
· Kinema Junpo Awards (Japan) Best Foreign Language Film Director.
· New York Film Critics Award (USA) NYFCC Award for Best Director and for Best Film
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IIC Members ONLY
28.11.2013 at 6.30pm – Italian Institute of Culture
E la nave va (And the ship sails on)
Directed by Federico Fellini
Cast: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti
Running time: 132 minutes
Year: 1983
Italian, English subtitles – IIC Members ONLY
In July 1914 a luxury cruise ship leaves Italy with the ashes of the famous opera singer Tetua. The boat is filled with her friends, opera singers, actors and all kinds of exotic people. Life is sweet the first days, but on the third day the captain has to save a large number of Serbian refugees from the sea, refugees who has escaped the first tremors of WWI.
AWARDS
· David di Donatello Awards (Italy) David Awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography.
· Golden Globes (Italy) Golden Globe Award for Best Film
· INSFJ Awards (Italy) Silver Ribbon for Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Special effects.
· Sant Jordi Awards (Spain) Sant Jordi Award for Best Film.
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