Amarcord
1974 Directed by Federico Fellini
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The Fantastic World of Fellini!
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.
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Amarcord is my first Fellini film, which so far seems to be a bad thing. I was really overwhelmed by the style and the grandiose nature of everything, plus it was episodic and fractured and I couldn't follow what the point of it all was. By the end, I realized I kept seeing this one guy's face a lot, so I thought "maybe this film is about him!" Turns out I was right. Amarcord is mostly about Titta, a typical teenage boy who idolizes women and dreams of touching one. There's all this stuff about fascism since it's set in 1930's Italy, and there's lots of romance, farce, and small-town politics at play. All around, I'd say I had a…
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I forgot about the peacock in the snow. How did I forget about the peacock in the snow?
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A beautiful love letter and homage to all things Italy, including village life, family, community, tradition, culture, age-old values, patriotism, and pride in identity. The film segues from one vignette to another - some purporting remembered events, others dreams and fantasies - while documenting life in war-time Italy. From fascism and Mussolini to the clothing, food, and events of the era, such as the Mille Miglia car race and the arrival of an ocean liner, the audience is provided with a rich account of this particular slice of life. The film very much plays like a memory, which is appropriate considering "amarcord" can be roughly translated as "I remember."
Amarcord is a beautiful film that is wonderfully sincere yet also…
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MY GREAT DIRECTORS: PART 21 FEDRICO FELLINI: PART 1
If you are just getting into Fellini, DO NOT start with "Amarcord" you will hate the director forever if you do. "Amarcord" is 100% "Felliniesque" coming from the directors own childhood memories, the characters in this film are insanely over the top and goofy, but still display real characteristics of actual people. Being the huge Fellini fan that I am, "Amarcord" was a treat in character development ans story telling that he can only do.
But behind the Italian weirdness, this film is a great coming of age story, as one the many main characters, a teenage boy named Titi, experiences happiness, sadness, sexual desires and life in general with his…
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I didn’t like this film at all when I first saw it something like ten years ago, but I’ve learned a lot more about cinema, about Fellini, and about life since then and on this second viewing I really loved what I saw. Amarcord (which translates to “I remember” within the regional vernacular of its setting) is a sort of nostalgic remembrance of life in a small Italian town during the 1930s. In the films of the neo-realists this was a period of history that seemed like hell on earth, but this isn’t a film that’s trying to represent reality, it’s trying to represent memory. Everything in the film is sort of skewed; it moves from anecdote to anecdote and…
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I want to live, breathe, love, touch, play, dream, have sex in Fellini's films. It may not be his "best" but who cares. It's Fellini and it's a fantastic experience.
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here we find a film where the characters try to burn a homeless man alive in the first 10 minutes. it is a nostalgic comedy
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Visually powerful and at times very comical, Amarcord, which roughly translates to "I remember," is Fellini's love letter to his own youth and all who shaped him into the artist he became. Rather than social commentary as cutting as that found in 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita, this film focuses its attention on small town life, particularly life in Rimini, a town on the coast of Italy.
While autobiographical, it is not a psychological self-examination like that of 8 1/2 nor a class-conscious farce like that of La Dolce Vita. It is a softer take on Fellini's life as it reflects upon the experiences of a boy growing up in Fascist Italy. Perhaps it is this softness and, at times, tenderness that prevented Amarcord from reaching the fame of his other movies. It is certainly one of the most beautiful films made.
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the little italian boy is so bad at sex that he gets physically sick
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A clear influence on Emir Kusturica, Amarcord was a lot funnier than I expected. Had me in stitches throughout. A brilliant masterpiece.
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Laikam tāpēc, ka Fellini skolā bij obligātā literatūra, nav gluži tā, ka viss godīgi būtu noskatīts. Tagad, savukārt, ir beidzot pienācis laiks, kad no labas gribas šo to paskatīt. I Remember. Nu ļoooooti. Diez, ko es no savas bērnības atmiņām tā varētu sakompilēt? [H#77:2013]
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This reflection on Fellini's childhood is not his most satisfying film. It's somewhat vulgar and the narrative is non-existent, but it does help explain some of Fellini's magic if you consider that his films are nothing more than how a child might see the world. The Criterion edition has an excellent dubbed version.
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Favourite Fellini.
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Amarcord ("I remember") may very well be Fellini's most popular and accessible film, and for good reason. Take one part coming-of-age drama, one part scathing social commentary and one part historical-drama, and you have the charming story of Titta (Zanin), an Italian schoolboy growing up at the dawn of World War II and the rise of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime in Italy. But then again, Amarcord isn't so much a "story" as it is a series of dream-like sequences that, much like memories themselves, are very fluid and seem to barely connect to each other.
What makes this film so brilliant is that what first seems like a nostalgic love-story to one's youth is actually a searing satire in disguise:…
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I could watch this on repeat for days. It’s so weird and hilarious, and some of the shots that Fellini brings to us are just miraculous.